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The troper must not understand the rules. But they're not a mod, so you don't need to worry about a suspension.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallEverything you need to know about this can be found at Handling Spoilers.
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"Should we send a PM to Gideoncrawle about the situation?
Edited by gjjones He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.I can't see pre-release spoilers being a problem for fan works, because the only people who tend to know them are the same people who wouldn't want them spoiled.
The only fic I remember this being a problem for is Copacetic, because the author told a few readers the ending via PM.
2025: the year it all ends?He's still pulling that? I remember when he kept going on about one particular example regarding Mal's appearance on Total Drama Avengeance: Old Losers vs New Losers being "too spoilery" and actively going out of his way to remove any context or anything that explained the example properly (even though the character's appearance had to be spoilered since them merely being there in a pre-All-Stars season is a pretty big spoiler in on itself), and he was acting like he was the sole authority on how it was supposed to be spoilered (and how TD fanfic pages in general are supposed to be written) even though he personally admitted he hadn't even read the fic.
Edited by N8han11Okay, this blew up a little more than I expected. To give some belated responses.
@ gjjones. Sounds like a good idea.
@ Arctimon. He didn't say he would suspend me, but if I remember correctly, he said he would report me to the mods to get me suspended.
@N8han 11. Huh. So, I'm not the only one whose dealt with him. That's pretty arrogant of him. I've done plenty of editing on TD fanfic pages, and Despair Island and Predator and Prey (the latter page I created) are the only ones I've had problems with him (although the second was due to me misusing Bystander Syndrome).
@ Septimus Heap. What makes the spoiler tags excessive?
"Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer."Sounds like Tropers.Gideoncrawle is minimodding... Threatening other tropers in general is being a dick, and that's not something we really want here. Especially if they're combining that with minimodding.
That said, I believe the spoiler tags being excessive is that it's whiting out the entire entry (sans the trope name); that violates spoiler policy in that it's a Administrivia.Self Fulfilling Spoiler. If the reader has to highlight an example just to see if it's something they don't want to be spoiled on, then it's not really worth spoilering out.
That page has nine such examples right now.
Edited by TheNerfGuy

I was recently PM'ed for placing spoilers on the page for the fanfic Despair Island, being told by another troper (Gideoncrawle) that the spoilers I placed are not allowed. I had spoilered them for revealing too much about the fates of the characters, but apparently I was told that spoilers are forbidden on fanfic trope pages (at least that's my understanding of what he said), but I've never had that problem before with any other fanfic page. So...what IS the spoiler policy for fanfiction trope pages.