What motivates a spoiler?

And by that I mean the people who spread spoilers. Spoilers being plot points to shows, movies, books that aren't out yet.

Are they just mean little kids who haven't gotten over it yet. I mean the word is spoil. Spoiled things are nasty and gross. Why do that?

I'm a LOST fan. And I've been around the bend on things that can be spoiled (like Star Wars, Harry Potter, LOTR) so many times that I've got all these strange habits now. Like I read and don't read spoilers. I mean if I thought that I could remain spoiler-free and still live a normal life, watching TV, checking the internet, then it would be no problem. But because I know from past attempts to stay spoiler-free that you get spoiled anyway, when tempted, I do look at spoilers occasionally. But I just wish the temptation wasn't there. Because I always rationalize "Well what if I get hit by a bus before I see it, then I'll be dead and I won't know what happened." Stupid stuff like that. Then there's always the idea that you'd rather spoil it for yourself on purpose, instead of being a victim. You know 'taking back your power', but then that's not what you really wanted. Oh, it's so complicated.

So this time I've tried to not read LOST spoilers for the last month or so. It doesn't work. Because you go on a LOST message board and people put spoilers in the subject line to purposely ruin everything. So you say "Well, then don't go on any LOST message boards!" It's not that simple. The whole thing about LOST that is so great is talking about what just happened on the show and speculating on theories you've had and new ones you just thought of. If you don't do that, why even watch? So you want to talk about the episode that just aired and in order to do that you have to wade out into a mindfield of possible spoilers. I actually go to a LOST chat during the show and there are evil Canadians who love to infiltrate our lovely corner of the internets to spoil what's happening right before it happens. You see for some reason the Canadians still get LOST at 8PM, when in the US it was pushed all the way back to 10. It makes you wonder if there is a God.

But really it's just mean-spirited. The producers don't want things spoiled and real fans don't want things spoiled. So who are these evil people? I guess their mommies didn't love them.