A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Jon, I'm not contesting your statement above in any way.
But I think it's kind of funny that it was you who summarized the policy as well when we preparing to move over here. (I linked to the post in Lightbulb, but it's at WX and can't be reached. Or couldn't last time I tried.) Just as it was Hec who twice brought up the idea that we needed to address summer spoilers. Continuity yay!
(And in the WX post at least, you were indeed summarizing common practice and related discussion, not making up the policy on your own.)
OTOH, this particular piece of the FAQ is old as methusalah. Apart from it's FAQ statu: Is a policy that has existed from the beginning grandfathterable?
You're missing the message, that this point of spoiler policy, namely, summertime casting news about regular cast members, wasn't addressed in the policy. It's a no-go.
I think that the spoiler line has been moving, living thing.
You're missing the message, that this point of spoiler policy, namely, summertime casting news about regular cast members, wasn't addressed in the policy. It's a no-go.
You're missing the point that the policy was the standard that was deviated from. Sometimes those deviations were objected to, sometimes they weren't.
Or: Wonder Falls 1, Body Count 0.
Yes! Although frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the count changed.
Yes! Although frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the count changed.
We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.
You're missing the point that the policy was the standard that was deviated from. Sometimes those deviations were objected to, sometimes they weren't.
That's not clear at all. It isn't clear that summertime cast announcements were considered spoilers when the slug for the thread and the FAQ for this board were written. It isn't clear, because Jon wrote them and he's stated they weren't in his mind.
Tell me, are you going to also address that the FF spoiler thread is being used against it's policy, and that it's slug was changed despite the grandfather clause prohibition on changing things always in effect? Because if there's one thing that's always been in effect, it's that people were not prohibited from talking about episodes that had already aired in the US, in a spoiler thread - and yet, the community made this adaptation most recently.
Cindy, talking a little below your knowledge does not ruin your enjoyment of the show.
Trudy, I love you. But you don't know this. As an essentially un-spoiled person, you don't know this.
And it does mar my enjoyment of this discussion board. Because there's nothing that we're allowed to discuss.
