After reading all the pros and cons for separated threads and changing my opinion back and forth some 10 times, I thought of something that might help solve the problem of spoiling (partially of course) without too much conflict (I hope) and mod team interference. (Actually it's Isan's idea, not mine
)
We'll just have one discussion thread with "spoilers abound" tag and another one with "no spoilers allowed - please use spoiler tags" tag. In the second thread people would be advised that they might get negrepped for neglecting the thread's rule. Now, this way we've got two identical threads, which is not allowed on the board. This could be easily corrected by giving the thread a slightly (or significantly
) different topic.
I'll give an example.
There's a thread dedicated to Junjou Romantica anime, which is quite an uncontrollable spoilers galore.
And another one for the same anime (me started
), which people instantly called "haters thread"
(Although most of the people posting there don't hate or even like the series. They came and stayed because of it's non-squealing and little bit different in it's overall manner discussion.) As the thread starter I just went and added "please use spoiler tags" line in it's topic. (Eventhough there's nothing to spoil in this specific anime because nothing happens there XD). I hope - altogether with my signature
- it will make people to be more careful spoilers-wise.
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Originally Posted by Isan  Considering most all threads have "spoilers" in their titles......
I was under the impression that threads marked with spoilers was merely a courtesy warning but that people still had to use the spoiler tag for spoilers (that's logical to me).
Else, where are the spoilers free threads?
Or does that mean we're allowed to start "no-spoilers" threads for all the anime we want to discuss?
Because I could prolly start about 5 threads right now if that's the case |
I'd say - go ahead
Actually, when I read you post I thought: "why not?"
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Regarding making "Don't spoil" button anonymous. It sounds to me like a minor change in the script. Like changing variable ("username") into constant ("Spoiling post" - for example). But I don't really know. I guess it depends of the forum's template (or whatever). We can ask Dai, I guess.