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==Spoilers in [[forum:The Howling|The Howling]]== | ==Spoilers in [[forum:The Howling|The Howling]]== | ||
I see that you recently chastised [[user:Ghastly9090|Ghastly9090]] for including spoilers in The Howling. However, you seem to hold a mistaken view of that forum. The Howling is ''not'' a spoiler-free zone, as the text at [[forum:The Howling]] makes ''very'' clear. I'm sorry that your experience of series 6 might've been spoiled, but it's hardly Ghastly9090's fault that he used The Howling ''appropriately''. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''17:34:20 Sat '''16 Apr 2011 </span> | I see that you recently chastised [[user:Ghastly9090|Ghastly9090]] for including spoilers in The Howling. However, you seem to hold a mistaken view of that forum. The Howling is ''not'' a spoiler-free zone, as the text at [[forum:The Howling]] makes ''very'' clear. I'm sorry that your experience of series 6 might've been spoiled, but it's hardly Ghastly9090's fault that he used The Howling ''appropriately''. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''17:34:20 Sat '''16 Apr 2011 </span> | ||
:You've answered your own question when you noted that "nowhere [in the spoiler policy] does it say spoilers can be discussed on the Howling or on any forum". Precisely. What policy doesn't restrict, it implicitly allows. And, again, there's a big ol' warning at [[Forum:The Howling]] that says, "there be spoilers here". | |||
:It comes down to a practical issue of policing. In order to determine whether something is or isn't a spoiler, an admin would have to look at it. If the admin doesn't want to be spoiled, then he or she is forced into the uncomfortable position of having to spoil his enjoyment of the program in order to uphold his duties as an admin of enforcing policy. Thus, it's simply best to ''allow'' spoilers in The Howling and to put up a warning that there ''are'' spoilers present there. | |||
:In effect, there's no way to operationalize a spoiler ban in the Howling, so '''there is no ban'''. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''19:07:21 Sat '''16 Apr 2011 </span> | |||