Alright, guys. Let’s all listen up for my sake and for various others’. I don’t like these meta posts, as you all might know, but I think it may be necessary here.
It’s been a long drought, everyone. Remember that not everyone here wasn’t posting actively while Season 3 episodes were airing. They may not know about our unspoken rules about spoilers, so let me refresh ourselves as I remember them. Feel free to chime in if I’m getting them wrong.
- Don’t post anything regarding episodes that haven’t aired yet without spoiling it some how. This can be through spoiler buttons with:
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- or by making your text white so you have to highlight to see it with:
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- Once the episode has aired on The Hub, then just avoid Pony General until you can see it. It’s usually posted on Equestria Daily about an hour after the episode, if not sooner,
- There are also large posts on Equestria Daily that stay “bumped” with sites that stream the episode live.
- Oddly enough, Hasbro tends to be relatively lax on this considering EqD is the most well-known hub for bronies online. They haven’t asked EqD to stop from posting these streams or to not post links to YouTube episodes until a day or two after the episode first airs.
So keep those guidelines in mind. It’s a bit of hassle to constantly spoiler your stuff. It’s not as easy as !ImageURL.jpg!
or “TextForLink”:LinkURL.com
, but it helps us all to enjoy talking to each other about the show and the fandom. That’s the main goal of this thread (I still maintain that this serves as a hangout as a secondary feature. We aren’t bound to each other by personalities and friendships originally. We are bound by our like/interest in the show and the fandom. Any heavy chit-chat that isn’t related to the show or fandom (no, KYM PG isn’t the “fandom.”) should be kept to walls. That was an interesting chain talking about us and TvTropes though, since that includes the greater Web (Platus included, if not especially. I do love you, man, but moderators need to set a good example. Users, especially new ones, follow our leads. Make use of the walls if you only ask why I told Sweatie I’m black or add a picture related to the thread.) I will stand firmly on this.
Let it also be known…that I’m really trying my best to be nice here. I am very close to going Derpy Vazquez on several of you. Not because you’re spoiling things for me (although that would be bothersome.) I usually lurk. Due to a few reasons (a few that disappoint me, because I would like to be more active here,) I’m not really a KYM PG poster anymore.
But because you’re spoiling things for a lot of other people here as well. And even if I can’t be around all that much or participate as much as I would like, it still burns me up to know friends of mine are having literally months of anticipation inappropriately and unnecessarily ruined just because people don’t want to copy and paste HTML, they can’t pay attention, or (worst) just plain don’t care as long as they can say what’s on their minds (which is very unfortunate, because most of the people I have in mind haven’t said much of note since they’ve begun posting making all of their spoiler talk not only infuriating but inanely infuriating. It’s like I have to pay a small piece of life to read some posts that just lower my intellect a bit.) Me on my worst day gets me suspended for saying what I really think about people. Just because you like me and respect me doesn’t mean I like or respect you. Just because I tend to be nice doesn’t mean that’s my nature (especially when annoyed.) I’m just nice because I believe I should be due to my faith, my role as moderator, my self-declared role as a friendly user on KYM, and just for introducing a “good” influence to others so they can enjoy the site and to help create a culture of it.
I am quite cynical. If I don’t think a person is capable of changing, then embarrassing and potentially emotionally cutting a person to the point they don’t want to come back to a thread in order to keep things nice for those who can follow rules and don’t lack the capability for the basics of being considerate is not far from my natural inclinations. And I don’t usually felt regret about it (when I say I’m a jerk, this is what I’m talking about.)
So tl;dr: Use Spoilers.
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I apologize. I can’t post Pony right now, because I’m at work. I might try to edit a favorite picture in on my phone in a bit.
Poni (and Pokèmon.)
Julian Yeo is trying to murder us.