tumblr savior allows you to "black list" or "white list" words. For example, I black list the words NSFW or penis when I'm at work, because one of my favorite posters has one day of the week where all she posts is Sherlock porn. It collapses the post and says why it's blocked, which words you're filtering on. It can be in the tag or in the text, doesn't matter.

It can be in the tag or in the text, doesn't matter.

Cool. Thanks.

I like the idea of a Stan Lee-based MCU thread. With all of the overlapping plot lines and distribution methods, it's hard for me to track when and where I can discuss what. And with Marvel gleefully tossing access points out there like Johnny Appleseed (I figure a Groot show on HGTV is just a matter of time), it's only going to become more of a thing. And I agree that spoiler policy will probably need to evolve to reflect new media distribution and consumption methods.

Couple of questions as I am trying to write up the vote:

Do we envision streaming media to only contain material that is original to streaming?

Does MCU trump all other threads ( including movies)?

Does MCU include Just Marvel Cinematic Universe, not comics?

Philosophical question:

Our difficulty has been that there is no good way to solve the spoiler issue-- we can decrease the size of the buckets we put things in, which may cause the spoiler averse to post more, but may cause people who don't follow a lot of threads to post less. We can white font more, but people, especially on an phone, may post less because it is hard to read or the policy is confusing. We can make bigger buckets based on Genre rather than channel, but that makes the number of spoilers worse. The only wat to completely solve spoilers is a thread per show, but that reduces cross pollination to nothing Before crafting the ballot, I wish I had a sense of what was best.

Also, I think it is ironic that I am crafting this ballot, since the reason I supported voting was that I could not deal with the pro and anti proliferation fighting- it made me nutty cuckoo!

I don't think we can ever have a flawless spoiler policy, all we can do is minimize the risk.

It might benefit us to have a separate discussion on spoiler policy, outside of this current vote. For now, we could try the TV rules for TV broadcast shows and the movie rules for the movies. Maybe use the broadcast rules for things streamed an episode at a time on a weekly basis and the movie rules for things that are dumped at once. Then if we come up with a better all over policy we can apply it.

I like the idea of having a hall monitor for a thread.

...I'm not volunteering to be one, which I know is poopy of me. These papers are not gonna grade themselves, sadly.

My opinions:

Do we envision streaming media to only contain material that is original to streaming?

Yes, only original programming.

Does MCU trump all other threads ( including movies)?

Yes.

Does MCU include Just Marvel Cinematic Universe, not comics?

Correct -- Not comics.

Just a reminder that voting is supposed to start later today, so I'll need final wording.

It's going to be fairly late... Like 5 ish? I am working today at the theatre.

Does MCU include Just Marvel Cinematic Universe, not comics?

If yes, then what is the spoiler policy on talking about things that happened in the comics (possibly decades ago) that inform how people think the MCU is going to develop a character or plotline?

As a spoilerphile who rarely reads comics, I really love it when the comics-knowledgeable chime in with "Oh, that background character is so-and-so, originally she was [main character's] mentor but in a later version she turned evil. I wonder if we'll see more of her in the next movie/episode/spinoff series." But I can see where extra-MCU knowledge could be considered spoilery by others.

I would put anything on the screen in blackfont, comics stuff in white.