New Rules regardings Spoilers

[Serebii]

Right...I have had it already with the abuse with the new spoiler tag now so listen up and listen good. Here they are:

In Posts

• No Misusing of the Spoiler Tag. Only use it WHEN it is a spoiler.
• No Spoiler Stacking i.e. using multiple spoiler tags for just one spoiler. Only One extra tag is allowed
• No Pointless Spoiling

For the Spoiler Stacking...here is what I won't accept

Spoiler: a

Spoiler: a

Spoiler: a

Spoiler: a

Spoiler: a

Spoiler: a

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Here is what I would accept

Spoiler: 1st Episode of Pokémon

Ash Saw Ho-oh in this episode. He saw it as it was flying away...it had a Golden Aura

Spoiler: 275th Episode of Pokémon

He also saw Ho-oh in this Episode...it had a Gold Aura but you could fully see it's colours

However...

Spoiler: 454th Episode of Pokémon (Don't Actually Open if you don't want to be spoiled for Season 9)

He saw Ho-oh here when the Pyramid Flew Away...it had the Gold Aura again and there was a flashback back

Now for Sig Rules

• No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
• No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
• Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags

First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with

 

[munchlaxboy]

Good thinking to make this thread Serebii! I was just wonderin... is mine ok?

 

[Eszett]

Aye, those sigs which were encased entirely in spoiler tags were getting annoying. Thanks for implementing this.

 

[Token]

Honestly, It is worse than the old spoiler. Do you really think people will stop misusing it at the threat of an informal warning? I'd skip that and go to an official one. Off topic, what happened to the old ones already in a post before you changed them? Did they switch or were they unspoiled?

 

[AJ Flibble]

Heh. Had to be: they were/are being abused left, right and centre. Nice rule that needed to be implemented before it was/is too late.

 

[ø®ΑпGЗ ♠]

Off topic, what happened to the old ones already in a post before you changed them? Did they switch or were they unspoiled?

[SPOIL]They stopped working.[/SPOIL]

 

[FlamingRuby]

What if you wanted to make a table of contents for a fic and wanted to spoil the episodes you had yet to write? Is that okay?

 

[Serebii]

I just added the basic tag so that old Spoilers aren't covered

 

[cυтe тogepι]

Heh, good ol' rules. xD

Hopefully people won't abuse them now, or. . . most of them.

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

Now for Sig Rules

• No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
• No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
• Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags

First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with

Actually this is wrong. Spoiler Tag abuse in sigs has already been brought up and will be treated like any other breach of the signature rules. Strike One - Offending part removed. Strike Two - Entire sig removed. Strike Three - Entire sig removed + Week ban. Thre's no point over complicating the sig rules with extra warnings just for this.

I shouldn't even half to point out how there was never this sort of problem with the old spoiler tags.

 

[DragonDance]

Thank God. Spoiler Stacking/ pointless sig spoilers were as annoying as hell.

 

[Serebii]

The instances are for general spoiler abuse Dan...not just in sigs thank you

 

[Hoshi no Kabii]

Its kinda sad that this rule was necessary. Yeah, all those spoiler sigs were quite annoying. Plus the stacking, ugh.

 

[Diljabar]

I knew they'd be trouble! I said it before! That's why I don't use spoilers!

 

[Medea]

Thank you Serebii!!!

I seriously got sick of that too. I mostly saw it in people's sigs and in the game forum.

 

[Serebii93]

Now for Sig Rules

• No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
• No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
• Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags

First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with

Okay, does that mean I can't cover my entire sig with a spoiler, even though it's proper length anyways? Do I need to take it off?

 

[Brandon-kun]

Okay thankx for reminding me Joe! I had to go get my sig approved! XD thankx for the reminder on this subject!

 

[Bulk]

Well, that didn't take long. It's stupid that some people on these forums can't stop themselves from abusing extra features when they are implemetated. It happened with the karma system and now it's happened here. I hope we never get custom avatars, all hell would break loose.

 

[Kalosian]

I never use spoilers anyway...But it's good with these rules, i guess.

 

[hIrAm]

Hm, yes. I was wondering when another announcement about spoilers would pop up. I mean, there's no need to hide your signature, let everyone see it.