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Serack:
--- Quote from: Shecky on August 10, 2010, 10:22:09 AM ---Huh? Why would they be revised?
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Being new around here, I am still getting familiar with the moderation of spoilers. My earlier comment was WRT the bolded, itallicized part of this quote from the post defining what is needed spoilerwise for changes.
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on March 22, 2007, 02:36:17 AM ---Just fyi...when it starts hitting the shelves, spoilers will fly faster than some people can get their hands on it (or, in some cases, faster than others will read).
To that end, I ask these things:
1) Keep actual spoilers out of the titles. These titles can be seen from the main board, sometimes, and sometimes folks hit the spoiler boards regarding past books.
2) Put CHANGES SPOILER in the title somewhere for a few weeks*, so people who haven't been able to get their hands on it as fast as you won't stumble across a spoiler by accident, perusing here for speculation or talk about older books.
3) Spoilers revealed in online reviews are still spoilers, and must be hidden under the spoiler tag.
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NOTE: It doesn't matter how minor the spoiler is...we're not going there. Period.
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The point being, it's been a little more than a few weeks, and being new around here I'm not sure where the lines are and didn't want to get clubbed over the head for crossing one unawares.
Magnus:
--- Quote ---The general rule when determining whether or not something is a spoiler is this:
Did it come out this year?
Is it from a book that is currently only available in hardcover form?
Do I have any doubts about whether or not it's a spoiler?
If you answered "yes" to ANY of the above questions, it counts as a spoiler. Take it to the correct board.
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Taken from here: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,18.0.html
Serack:
--- Quote from: Magnus on August 24, 2010, 12:31:30 PM ---Taken from here: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,18.0.html
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those rules are in and I would guess for another "board" other than the DF spoiler one.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: balltongue9600 on August 25, 2010, 12:16:42 PM ---those rules are in and I would guess for another "board" other than the DF spoiler one.
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Not precisely. Look at the path displayed at the top of that link's page:
--- Quote ---Jim-Butcher.Com Community > The Dresden Files > DF Books > This is a NO SPOILERS zone
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After the "couple of weeks" (always err on the side of caution), it's not IMPERATIVE that you write "Changes spoilers"... but it's still a nice thing to do for the year following the book's release, until the next book comes out. For that matter, it's a nice thing to do, period; we get plenty of new enthusiasts joining these boards over time, and not all of them have yet completed reading the entire series.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Shecky on August 25, 2010, 01:08:08 PM ---Not precisely. Look at the path displayed at the top of that link's page:
After the "couple of weeks" (always err on the side of caution), it's not IMPERATIVE that you write "Changes spoilers"... but it's still a nice thing to do for the year following the book's release, until the next book comes out. For that matter, it's a nice thing to do, period; we get plenty of new enthusiasts joining these boards over time, and not all of them have yet completed reading the entire series.
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I guess the reason why I mentioned it is because, as one of these newbies (gradually growing up though) I was headily impressed with the mod's desire that spoilers be labled, but couldn't quite understand the current requirements considering the first few weeks described in the rules for spoiler tags had gone by.
I had found the topic quoted above by Magnus, but it's in the spoiler free zone, so it made their application in the spoiler ok zone ambiguous to me.
From the outside coming in, it is my estimation that the boards used to have a system of labels and segregation that the mods heavily enforced. Then new tools came out (the spoiler mask), making the old system a little obsolite, but the integration of the 2 systems seems to have caused some ambiguity in the system as a whole (from the perspective of a newb).
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