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Originally Posted by NGW

Spoilers shouldn't have a statute of limitations. Especially with a franchise that has spanned decades and has as many entries and variations as this. New fans come in all the time from all different series (as this thread has shown), why risk ruining it for them when it takes absolutely no real effort to just post a spoiler tag? It's incredibly selfish to not. I had a pretty major moment in Fourze spoiled for me just browsing, and I definitely felt it took away from the series as I was anticipating it the entire time.

Well, I thought I was pretty careful. What I posted wasn't really a spoiler anyway. As for the selfish thing, well... I didn't know there were spoiler tags on this forum.

Though I still think that if it's past a certain time and you stumble on a spoiler and you get into a tizzy because you haven't seen it yet, either you didn't care enough in the first place to see it, or the time has passed and there should be some realization that they're going to happen.

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Originally Posted by NGW

I see nothing wrong with a bit of common courtesy. I'm not saying any and every bit of information about a series needs to be put in tags, but you can't just go saying something like (spoilers for Fourze) Meteor kills Fourze or (spoilers for W) Phillip dies at the end out in the open like I've seen done before. And obviously if it is in a thread calling for spoilers, or in an episode specific thread then people reading those without having seen whatever relevant episode or series or whatever are taking that risk knowingly. But clicking on some sort of general discussion thread and seeing huge reveals or events is pretty crummy and unnecessary. Have some respect for other people in the fandom, especially if they're new.

While I'm not new to the fandom, I am new to this forum, and I don't know it's ins and outs yet. Not every forum has spoiler tags. Had I thought it was that big of a deal, I would have made space for it anyway.

But if it happens, don't consider it rude. Perhaps consider that the person didn't think of it as a spoiler, like in my case, or in other cases where the poster may not think at all.

Oboeteoke.