Now, a lot of us have been reading the manga and/or keeping up with the Japanese release of Brotherhood. However, we all need to remember that there's a good chunk of people who have not, and thus are liable to be spoiled majorly. So, let's take a minute and learn a few things about spoilers.
1. What is a spoiler?
Ask yourself, "If I learned about this before I saw it, would it have ruined the moment for me?"
Character deaths are always spoilers.
2. Okay, this plot point aired like 86 times already! Everybody's seen it by now. It's okay to talk about it in any thread, right?
Nope! It doesn't matter how many times something's been shown, it's still againt the rules to run around screaming about it.
Remember, character deaths are always spoilers.
3. Is hinting okay?
It's not technically against the rules, but it's sure as hell obnoxioius. Nobody likes that guy who says "OMG WAIT TIL NEXT WEEK CUZ IT'S
SOOOO AWESOME!"
Do not post hints like "You'll never guess who dies this week!" or "There's a huge plot twist coming up!"
3. No spoilers? Possible spoilers? Spoilers? What do those phrases mean!
You'll see these in thread titles mostly, and they tell you what kind of plot points that you can expect and talk about in them.
No spoilers--Pretty obvious. Do not post spoilers in it. Usually you can mention things that have already happened in the show, but check the first
post in case there's rules against it.
Possible spoilers--Tread carefully. You'll usually see this with rewatching threads. Spoiler marking is your friend.
Spoilers/Spoilers welcome/etc--Go for it. Talk about the twists and deaths to your little heart's content.
If a thread does not have any kind of spoiler warnings, then err on the side of caution. Don't post spoilers or hint.
4. Someone else posted a spoiler, can I talk about it now?
No, no you can't. And don't go quoting it, that just makes it worse!
5. Marking spoilers? What's that?
Marking spoilers is a way of hiding them from view for anyone who doesn't want to know about something that happens later.
And no, just changing the font color to black or dark gray doesn't really help much.
How to Mark Your Spoilers!
We now have a super-simple way of hiding spoilers using the Rich Text editor. If you use the basic HTML editor, you can skip this part.
- Find our nifty little spoiler-marking buddy. He's the button with his hand covering his face. He'll be directly to the right of the
ABC button. - Click him. You'll notice a new set of [ ] tags pop up wherever your cursor was at the time.
- Type whatever you want in between the tags.
- That's it! Your spoiler is safe to post. If you did it right, it should look like this:
How to Mark Spoilers with HTML
Okay, so that Rich Text editor's not for everyone, but you still want to mention something spoilerish? Well then, all you have to do is copy and paste this code in, and you're golden!
<strong style="color: #232323; background-color: #232323; font-weight: normal;">SPOILERS GO HERE</strong>
Example:
SPOILERS! I like pancakes. END SPOILERS!
There, that's not so hard, is it? Remember, every time you spoil something, Edward shrinks an inch.
I don't know what's real from the noise, the noise.
I can't hear a thing for the noise, the noise.
I wouldn't do anything, the thunder that throws me away.
I wouldn't do anything, there's something that keeps me away.
I wouldn't do anything, something that begs me to stay.
I wouldn't do anything, something that throws me away.
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