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##No##

This presents a great number of issues.

• First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• Nearly as important, which episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.

No

This presents a great number of issues.

• First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• Nearly as important, which episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.

##No##

This presents a great number of issues.

• First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• Nearly as important, which episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.

##No##

This presents a great number of issues.

• First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• Nearly as important, which episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.

##No##

This presents a great number of issues.

• It’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.

##No##

This presents a great number of issues.

• First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.
• Nearly as important, which episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.
• It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having Is this person Jessica Jones?, we would have Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.
• It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.
• This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the 150-character limit, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the Orphan Black episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.

As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.