User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-3969391-20170722133251/@comment-188432-20170805001734

Just want to point out that it is not impossible to avoid even massive spoilers. I didn't know who the Twelfth Doctor was until 23 November 2013, and those eyebrows came into view during The Day of the Doctor.

Now, granted, I'm an American and PCap wasn't the kind of choice that made it into US national papers. I'm sure it's more difficult in the UK, particularly if you've got a train commute every day, and you pass by a news agent with great regularity.

But as far as setting your internet browser to help you avoid likely sites, it's pretty much of a breeze.

On the 2017 event, I've been less lucky, because I was unfortunately spoiled during a FANDOM meeting. But it would have been comparatively easy to avoid otherwise.

So, no, we're not changing our spoiler poilicy to any great degree.

Some may scoff because of the advent of the FANDOM News and Stories module at the bottom of each page of the wiki. But even though I'm probably on FANDOM more than most, I still am unspoilt on a variety of big events in a variety of fandoms. You just have to learn to scroll carefully when major news events occur.

Alternatively, you could turn it off with personal CSS, if you absolutely want to avoid being spoiled.

Though we've recently made slight changes to our spoiler policy because of FANDOM News and Stories, our basic spoiler rules still make sense because they keep spoilers out of our local content until stories are officially released. That way, we confine spoilers to the FANDOM News and Stories modules -- all of which you can turn off in your personal CSS.