To be fair, most HP communities aren't even going that far. The most common thing I've seen is communities switching to being completely moderated until after the release of DH. All posts and comments are now being checked before they are posted to the communities. It's a lot of work for the moderators, but those communities are the only ones that are in my Book 7 filter on LJ. For the rest, I'll catch up once I've read the book:)

As a side note, spoilers have already started surfacing. This early it's likely that they're false, but I wanted to let you know that it's already begun. Thankfully I'm not on the community where the spoiler was posted, but I read that it happened on another community and thought you might like a heads-up.

They do. I'm not sure how other communities are dealing with that issue, but I know the Atlanta HP group has a couple of people who don't care about being spoiled, so they're acting as moderators for any post by an unknown person. We've all agreed that we won't spoil each other, so the other moderators can help with posts/comments from known members. That community isn't terribly busy so it's a workable solution. I have no idea how some of the larger communities are dealing with moderated status...

I'm not saying that the whole internet should shut down, but, since I have the ability to prevent bad behavior on this, I'm going to do it. I'm just not going to give people carte blanche to be jerks. I avoided every community I thought might even hint at Harry Potterness last time, and some moron deliberately posted the AD spoiler in a cooking community. Just totally on purpose to ruin it for people -- just out of sheer meanness. I'm not going to just stand by and let that happen this time. I can't control the whole 'net, but I can at least prevent it on my watch.

Hee, hee, hee. :)

What I really wish is that I could turn it over to someone I know in real life for a week who didn't care about being spoiled -- that would be my first preference. That way, all the travel people could continue on with their regularly-scheduled program, but the HP folks wouldn't be spoiled. I just don't know who to ask, though, who also has an LJ and who doesn't have some interest in Book 7.