What Constitutes a Spoiler?

A few episodes ago on the awesome Movie Scum video series we discussed anti-feel-good movies. One of the films that came up was the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead where I pretty much gave away the ending, saying "Sorry if you haven't seen it, the movie's been out for five years." While we typically try to avoid important plot developments in the reviews that we write, shouldn't there be an agreed upon statute of limitations for what is considered a spoiler?

While I was stalking the message boards for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, one of the posts was about the death of a fairly important character to the franchise. Admittedly, this character's name was in the title of the post but one of the responses left me absolutely baffled.

Usually such a post would contain the word SPOILER in the title, so as not to give the plot away for people who have not yet seen the movie, like me....

Now, ignoring the fact that the movie is over twenty years old at this point, why would someone who has yet to see a film go to a board specifically for the discussion of that movie and get pissed that a plot point is discussed? By the same argument, to protect the stupid, should every movie, either new release or fifty-year-old classic have spoiler alerts for every minute detail? While I may be guilty of trolling boards for films (or even TV shows) I haven't seen, I don't get pissed because IT'S MY OWN DAMN FAULT!

To use a more recent example, Cinematical ran a discussion about a plot development in the recent Book of Eli. In the article, a few theories were banded about to explain the twist at the ending of the film. Some who left comments were upset the piece had ruined the film ... by disclosing there is a twist ending. Is the mere knowledge of a pending twist ending the same as giving the specifics? I say not as the person who left that comment is a moron as they would have had to read (or at least skim) the entire article to even leave the comment. In fact, both of these idiots deserve a swift kick in the nuts to reduce the chances of reproduction and a complimentary copy of the spoiler T-Shirt so they can bitch in private about films being ruined instead of online.

With that rant over, can we decide for Movie Scum what is and is not off limits? Spoilers only after a jump in the page? No specifics in the video series? Or are you reasonable and know that spoilers may pop up on a site that talks about MOVIES! Let us know in the comments (although I can't guarantee we will stick to it).