Okay, really, the policy is not about how spoiled a Buffista is allowed to get. And you're making it sound like it is.

It's not?

The spoiler policy is about what we can post. Not about how spoiled we can get. If I want to go to spoiler sites or camp out in Joss's back yard, our spoiler policy doesn't actually dictate whether I can or can't.

Just because our spoiler policy says we can't post about something until it's been promoed doesn't mean that all the advance info we're allowed to know can be from the promo.

I'm just going to stand by Cindy and nod.

Just because our spoiler policy says we can't post about something until it's been promoed doesn't mean that all the advance info we're allowed to know can be from the promo.

Ah. No, of course not - misunderstanding on my part.

Daniel makes a lovely and sane point.

If the spoiler tolerance increases to include stuff like the WB cast list and announcement, etc, I'd get too spoiled for my own tolerance and would be unable to participate because my enjoyment of the show would decrease.

But until very recently it did include stuff like that, and more if I'm correct about the musical. What's happened is a decrease in tolerance without this kind of discussion.

the only way I can adhere to my standard for my own level of spoiledness is to stay out of NAFDA.

Ding ding ding - and many people have to compromise their own level of spoiledness in order to have a conversation about something that is casting news when the WB tells us on our TVs, but is treated as a spoiler when the WB makes its press release.

It's the same circumstance, only one affects one group, and one affects another.

You know why I was as spoiled as I was towards the end? (I stayed clean throughout the middle of the season) because when we did that white font stuff to accomodate people who were delayed for one show or the other, I couldn't use the NAFDA threads. Someone is always being displaced. I had to choose between being spoiled, and not using a show thread to talk about the shows. I chose being spoiled. You chose not being spoiled.

But until very recently it did include stuff like that, and more if I'm correct about the musical. What's happened is a decrease in tolerance without this kind of discussion.

Standing behind Heather, nodding firmly.

But until very recently it did include stuff like that

Not really, no.

There were some over summer discussions most of which were about the status quo.

You know why I was as spoiled as I was towards the end? (I stayed clean throughout the middle of the season) because when we did that white font stuff to accomodate people who were delayed for one show or the other, I couldn't use the NAFDA threads.

Cindy, people shouldn't have to stay out of NAFDA to remain unspoiled. That is what we are saying.

Here's why I like things being whitefonted in Spoilers Lite: I like being able to pick what I know -- maybe I want to read the tv guide blurb, maybe I don't. Casting stuff I don't care about, character stuff may be different. Knowing that Colin Farrell will be in an 8-episode arc is different from knowing that he's playing Gunn's new boyfriend. Or whatever.

I'm not getting into the rest of the discussion, because I basically don't see what there is to talk about in the show threads all summer anyway. Especially if you're not speculating based on the announced cast changes. I do understand there's always something to say, of course, in the land of the Buffistas, I'm just saying.