Forum:Welcome messages and spoilers

In the interest of catching up on things to do, particularly tasks other than content improvement/maintenance, I'm opening this topic to discuss the possibility of using a modal window to welcome visitors to the site, possibly replacing/altering the use of Template:WelcomeMessages to welcome first-time contributors on their talk pages. Such a modal can be seen in action here, as well as on Wikipedia's mobile site. I do have concerns about modal windows as I know that some people find them annoying and intrusive.

Slyst has suggested using this to warn the visitor of spoilers, since for many it seems that the spoiler message on the main page isn't very effective. In the past, a spoiler warning was put into a sitenotice that was put at the top of every page, but such a thing was discouraged by Wikia staff, and eventually the sitenotice functionality was discontinued. I think we need to examine the importance of spoilers for this series, and what types of spoilers people fall into. People tend to highly overrate the effects of spoilers on their enjoyment of a story, but since Ace Attorney is mystery fiction, there's some justification to avoiding spoilers that don't apply to other types of fiction. That said, I've enjoyed these games and found plenty to think about even when I had culprits spoiled beforehand (which seems to be what most people are thinking when they complain about spoilers), and I believe that this has something to do with the process of catching the culprit and seeing how the characters react to different situations.

capefeather (talk) 19:15, December 22, 2015 (UTC)