# Discussion of rules in Game of Thrones threads

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**Created:** [April 1, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-rules-in-game-of-thrones-threads/617448 "2012-04-01T05:54:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-rules-in-game-of-thrones-threads/617448/74 "2012-04-03T18:11:33Z")

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> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> …This is ridiculous. Boyo Jim was obviously not being serious. No reasonable person could possibly interpret “I hope they have bigger budgets next year” as a spoiler. He was obviously being inflammatory, trying to mock me by turning my own logic against me…

I was dead serious. As to your post, I believed it was an answer, in direct response the question at the end the preceding post:

> [@Game of Thrones 2.01 "The North Remembers" 4/1 - ZERO SPOILER Discussion Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-2-01-the-north-remembers-4-1-zero-spoiler-discussion-thread/616885/55):
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> Season 1 cost 60 mil apparently, which was less than other comparable HBO series (Rome cost 100-120 mil per season, a big factor in its cancellation). Season 2 got a bigger budget because of the massive success of season 1, but i have no idea how much bigger it actually is.

And I didn’t read your answer all the way through, because I didn’t want to know. So I got it partly wrong because your response was not the answer that I expected. But still, by the very first rule, about nothing from other media, it was still a spoiler. As to my second quote in that post, by the same rule, Biggirl’s post was and is, unequivocally a spoiler. I think it’s reasonable to debate whether a post like that _should_ be a spoiler, but by the terms laid out, it was.

And I didn’t appreciate being told to “shut up” by the guy who’s set the rules, already broken one of them and allowed someone else to break them without comment. Which is why I won’t be playing in that sandbox.

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