I kind of like WHAM warnings when the authors post simply because I think of them as reading a book jacket or the back of a movie box. When I open up a James Patterson book, I like knowing beforehand, okay this one's about a serial killer, and this one's about bombing cities...etc.
I'm not so much a fan of the reassurance lines telling me that everything's going to get 'fixed' in the end. I think that's a bigger spoiler than anything else. The whole point of reading is to find out whether or not something's going to turn out the way I expect. Otherwise, if you tell me, for example, someone's getting shot in this story, but everything will be okay in the end...it kind of defeats the purpose of me reading it, other than just enjoying the author's writing style and characters. It's like watching the movie Titanic. The boat sinks.
That being said, I think a thread for WHAM warnings is fine.
JD
