Spoiler tag debate.

[DarthEnderX]

I also don't understand this notion of "not letting people talk about the preview kills discussion" when it's pretty much the exact opposite of that.

Case in point, the situation that started this discussion went something like:

User1: Oh man, I wonder how he's gonna deal with this situation?
User2: Maybe he's gonna do this thing?
User1: Yeah, that could work.
User3: It's also possible that he'd have to do this.
User4: The preview shows him doing this.
*discussion assassinated because there's literally nothing left to talk about at that point*

@DE - I did not write the last paragraph you quoted, so please edit that.

Oop, you're right, sorry.

I guess we are simply defining spoilers differently. I am defining it in the context of this forum and its rules, while you are defining it in general.

Fair enough. But understand that the whole reason I made this thread is because I'm pleading a case for this forum and it's rules to have the same definition of spoilers as the general definition of spoilers.

I fully understand that that's not the case, and the mods aren't likely to change it, but I made the thread to explain my point of view anyway.

The argument of "that's just the way they're doing it, deal with it" is not a rational argument, and therefor not one I'm prepared to accept.

Everyone gets access to the same information at the same time (which is why in contrast, Raw discussions are spoilers because not everyone is fluent in Japanese). If you are willfully not watching the preview, quit your whining or fuck off. So long as the preview is in the released episodes, they're not spoilers.

Again, this argument is basically like saying "Manga readers should be able to discuss the manga in the anime threads because, hey, that information is out there, it's not the manga readers fault that people are willfully not reading the manga and waiting for the anime!"

I just don't see the reason why whatever scenes are contained in the preview can't be discussed in the next weeks thread after it's actually, you know, aired in it's full context.

It's like saying anything in the OP/ED is a spoiler

Well, it usually is. If anyone said "don't discuss One Piece openings cause they're always full of spoilers" then I wouldn't.

So this thread is about episode previews?

Sorry, but some people give a shit.

I literally know, like, zero people in real life that wouldn't punch a person in the throat if they tried to talk about a Breaking Bad episode preview before they'd seen the next episode.

Movies are treated the same as anime episodes. Once it is out in theaters, it's fair game.

Well, that's a terrible policy too.

Maybe I haven't decided whether I want to even see a movie yet, and I want to get opinions on people who've seen it as to whether it's good or not. Of course, if there's no spoilers, I can't go to the movie's thread for that, because if it was good, I also know everything that happens in it already, so why bother going?