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This is the thread to report all violations of the site's spoiler policy in, as well as a place to coordinate cleanup of those articles.

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 18th 2025 at 11:06:42 AM

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#776: Nov 26th 2020 at 1:52:06 PM

No. Spoilers Off means no spoiler tags, period. It is meant for looking back on the work in post.

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#777: Nov 26th 2020 at 1:56:27 PM

Making two folders just to have one for hiding spoilers is still functionally equivalent to using tags on the page.

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#778: Nov 26th 2020 at 3:08:23 PM

[up][up]To be more precise, it means no spoiler tags for the work the page is tied to. Spoilers from other works can still be tagged (though the need to discuss other works in AwesomeMusic/ is rare, it can occasionally happen when, for example, a piece of music from one work is re-used in a later work.)

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#779: Nov 26th 2020 at 5:39:06 PM

[up][up][up]Yes, it's meant for looking back at the work in post, not the entire series/franchise. For example, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is Spoilers Off, but the Accidental Truth example on tags a spoiler for Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School since that work came later. People should be able to read a page for a work after completing it without getting spoiled for later installments in the series. It's ridiculous to expect all readers to be completely up to date in the entire series, especially for Long Runner franchises. But this isn't really relevant to the issue at hand.

[up][up]I don't see why it bugs you that somebody could read the page without being spoiled, but would you be OK with it if we changed the folder title to "Hidden Tracks"?

Edited by rjd1922 on Nov 26th 2020 at 7:50:53 AM

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#780: Nov 27th 2020 at 11:50:04 AM

On an unrelated note, I fixed four folder labels on Mass Effect 3 - Antagonists and NPCs. I haven't played any Mass Effect games, but I don't think "The Leviathans" is a spoiler on its own.

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#781: Nov 28th 2020 at 1:09:18 PM

WebVideo.Who Killed Markiplier has spoiler tags in the description.

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#782: Nov 28th 2020 at 1:10:32 PM

So I've been reading Ghost Teller and have had trouble with handling spoilers. Each story heavily uses twists that change the meaning of what's going on that I'm not sure how to handle it.

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#783: Nov 28th 2020 at 4:03:19 PM

Are the spoiler tags on this example okay? For Fusion Dance:

[down] Oop. Fixed, thanks.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Nov 28th 2020 at 9:31:47 AM

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#784: Nov 28th 2020 at 6:08:39 PM

Seems OK to me. (But you misspelled Our Ghosts Are Different as Our Ghosts Our Different.)

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Nov 28th 2020 at 9:08:48 AM

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#785: Nov 28th 2020 at 10:34:58 PM

I just recently found this forum, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for me to show my problem. So, I found some of the examples and character page that seems to break the spoiler policy. I will show some types. 1.Spoiler taging work/tropes name:

From Run:

2. Spoilering something that is no longer a spoiler: These two are also Zero-Context Examples.

In Star Wars Character Asoka Tano page label, someone spoiler tag a show that she was recently in even though it was announced. So what should I do with them?

Edited by Bubblepig on Nov 28th 2020 at 10:38:44 AM

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#786: Nov 29th 2020 at 7:04:39 AM

[up]The biggest issue is that the trope the entry is for should never be spoilered out. The other issues should probably be brought up in other threads.

Re: Ahsoka: I'm not sure what the policy is on hiding the labels for the images of her in other works, but everything else on her page looks fine at a glance.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Nov 29th 2020 at 10:08:39 AM

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#787: Nov 29th 2020 at 10:27:53 AM

Images are considered above the example line and should never be behind tags. Plus she was announced for it.

Edited by Karxrida on Nov 29th 2020 at 10:28:15 AM

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#788: Nov 29th 2020 at 11:03:27 AM

[up][up] Yeah but I feel like it's unnecessary to spoiler tag a new show name in image since it was announced that she make a appearance. [up] Yeah, is that ok to remove spoiler tags on character image? I mean the latest one.

Edited by Bubblepig on Nov 29th 2020 at 11:03:48 AM

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#789: Nov 29th 2020 at 12:21:17 PM

[up]Yes, de-spoiler it.

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#791: Nov 29th 2020 at 2:49:05 PM

I've changed AwesomeMusic.Undertale to "Hidden Tracks" per the discussion above.

Edited by bwburke94 on Nov 29th 2020 at 11:30:21 AM

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#793: Nov 30th 2020 at 5:32:24 PM

The Pokémon examples in the Anime and Manga folder of The Chris Carter Effect say "Ash will never win any Pokémon League, thus making an endgame for the series genuinely impossible" and then states in a completely spoiler-tagged bullet below that that Ash indeed won the Alola League. We definitely shouldn't say "X will never happen but now it happened," and I don't believe we should say anything will never happen unless stated by Word of God, since as this case proves, anything's possible.

Edited by rjd1922 on Nov 30th 2020 at 7:33:18 AM

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#794: Nov 30th 2020 at 6:51:59 PM

[up] Yeah, that's textbook self-fulfilling. Wouldn't be the Orange League because that aired two decades ago.

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#795: Nov 30th 2020 at 9:26:25 PM

[up]How should it be fixed? I also think the whole entry is pretty ranty and complaining.

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#796: Nov 30th 2020 at 10:09:18 PM

[up] Ash winning the Alola League completely negated the example, so it might just be removable altogether.

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#797: Dec 1st 2020 at 12:37:40 AM

Considering how long it took to happen it's possibly still valid. I doubt most viewers watched the show continuously for 15+ years to get to that point, plus a lot of people got burned by the XY fake out and the Genre Shift that came with Sun and Moon.

(People don't count Orange League btw since it wasn't a tournament or from the games.)

Edited by Karxrida on Dec 1st 2020 at 12:40:03 PM

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#798: Dec 5th 2020 at 9:39:44 AM

Reign's tearjerker page have a spoiler off warming but yet it have some spoiler tags on them. So what should I do?

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#799: Dec 5th 2020 at 9:49:20 AM

On tearjerker pages, always remove any spoiler markup, unless the spoiler is for a separate work.

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