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MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman

Posted by chrisd on from the spoilers-not-found-just-in-my-articles dept.

abouttime writes "What happens when your webmasters and the show scheduling people don't communicate? This page on the mtv site is where the winners of the awards are known before the show even airs tonight... Way to go MTV....." I wonder if it will be pulled by the time the story goes up....oh and in case you can't figure it out, spoiler alert...

6 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. FYI- by BannSidhe · · Score: 5, Informative

    They filmed it Saturday, most local news agencies/radio stations have ALREADY told the award results.... LOTR took best movie. American Pie 2 best kiss. blah blah :)

  2. this is not a lone gunman by kochsr · · Score: 3, Informative

    the awards show was sunday, it is taped. the winners have been on various websites since then

  3. Re:Lone Gunmen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Chrisd accidentally spilled a rather important spoiler on the front page before it had gotten to the west coast yet. Pissed a lot of people off.

  4. Re:Lone Gunmen? by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chrisd put up a slashdot story talking about how the Lone Gunmen (from the X-Files) were killed off in an episode here, before the episode had aired for a number of slashdot readers. The caption of the story was even "The Lone Gunmen Are Dead", negating any possibility that someone visiting slashdot could avoid the spoiler.

    Lots of folks quite upset.

  5. Re:Uhm... by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think that's where I saw it too. It's dated June 2.

    I didn't think it's possible, but is /. becoming slower?

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    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  6. Not a leak; CNN published those winners 4 days ago by dstone · · Score: 3, Informative

    To the /. editors... Rather than get /. readers whipped into a 'this is news' frenzy, please consider doing some basic research on your stories before publishing them. Four days ago, CNN published those winners, as simple news (not even a 'leak') back then.

    Maybe chrisd was just hoping other people make mistakes similar to his original Lone Gunman fiasco. ;-)