This is kind of a tough issue; The vast majority of people who didn't watch the event live don't go back and later watch a replay. They only care about what the result was. So by making the score easily available, we are serving what most people want. Sadly that does mean that some people are negatively affected.
Can you imagine after the world cup that no media site announced who won so that people who missed the finals could watch without knowing?
I kind of understand. Still I'll give my 5 cents worth of a solution that might satisfies everyone.
I just opened chess.com. What do I see, written in giant letters so I can't possibly miss it ?
"Gledura vs Liang 18.0 - 15.0." I would never have imagined ...
What if instead of "18.0-15.0" there were a button "Wanna know ?" and only if you click it, the result is revealed. And may be another button "watch replay" besides it ?
The one's who don't want to watch the replay would even have the chance to guess the result.
I encountered something like this today. I was planning on watching Sunday's PogChamps 3 coverage on YouTube, and I see on my chess.com home page the headline "PogChamps 3: Ludwig Gets His Revenge."
The headline could just as easily have been written "PogChamps 3: Ludwig Faces MoistCr1tikal" with the result in the body of the article. People who want to see it can click through. If article authors are evaluated on clickthrough metrics, this might even help them.
I like to watch live event streams like the speed chess championship. Mostly I watch them a couple of days after they happened because of time constraints.
However : It is not much fun watching them if you already know the result. So I'm not happy that results of these championships are reported on the front page of chess.com.
It would be great if the actual results where only visible after clicking on some 'Spoil' button, like they have in some forums.
What's even worse is of course when the moderators are talking about the results. This happened for instance in the women's speed chess championship when one of the moderators without any warning mentioned the exact results of two matches I wanted to watch later.
To sum it up : Could some kind of Spoiler warning be implemented ?
May be I'm the only one bugged by that ?