For Our Info- What a Spoiler Is

[LisaFromOH]

Hi everyone! I was looking the other day for what the Once podcast crew consider spoilers, both here in the forums and in the podcast. I found that Daniel had written a blog post about it in February: http://oncepodcast.com/how-we-define-on ... -spoilers/
And here is the (most) relevant part:

For the purposes of our conversations in the blog, podcast, and new Once Upon a Time forums, we consider a spoiler to be any real information about events, characters, places, or anything else that hasn’t been shown in an episode yet.

This means that we even count the post-episode previews as spoilers. We actually turn off the TV before these play.

But we’re considering episode titles not to be spoilers since the titles don’t say it all.

Thus, we openly welcome all theories, discussions, and predictions about the future when they’re based solely on the past episodes and what has been shown in an episode up to the present. We welcome anything beyond that, too, but we ask that it be posted in the appropriate spoilers subsection in the forums, or else wrapped with the spoiler bbCode.

I know that a lot of people have joined the forums since February (which is great!) and might not be aware of those guidelines. There are also a lot of us, myself included, who read that blog post when it was written but have since forgotten the specifics. I am NOT thinking of anyone or any post in particular, I just thought it would be nice to have this on the forum for easy access. Again, for clarification, this is not my definition of spoilers, it is this site's definition.

[Lil'Red]

As a new member, I had just put my first spoiler bbCode on a message because it gave away the main idea of an article mentioned in the first post of the forum and I didn't want to ruin the article for others who had just opened the page. Is that bad form?

[LisaFromOH]

Personally, I don't think that's bad form, Lil' Red. I think that was thoughtful of you. The nice thing about using a spoiler code is that people can always choose to read what's hidden under it. The problem comes when we post a spoiler and don't hide it or don't post it in a spoiler thread.

[DanielJLewis]

Odd. I thought I had marked that forum post to be global and always visible. But you're right, it's not. I'll fix that. Thanks for pointing this out!

[EnchantedOne]

Thank you for posting this again...I had forgotten that previews for the next episode were included!