There are no special rules anymore (other than a topic ban for one guy.) Idle Thoughts established this the last time this was brought up. There’s just the request for a no spoiler thread, which anyone can do for any work of fiction and the mods will enforce it. There’s also enforcement of the threadshitting rules.
In other words, Game of Thrones isn’t special, and this sort of thing could apply in any situation where there are two different storylines that could spoil one another, assuming a “no spoiler” thread is established. They just haven’t gotten around to making the sticky more general, I guess.
While I could’ve written that OP, you reminded me that there were two of you who annoyed me, restoring the balance of the Universe. You do know I was perfectly happy not remembering either of you specifically, right?
And how does stating the obvious help the situation? :dubious:
That’s me! Prior to the original kerfuffel I was content to ignore GoT threads. Still do. But I’m tired of that constant reminder that it gets special treatment.
I imagine the posters involved are already pretty well set in their ways…
I’d guess that the mods tried a compromise first, rather than moving straight to banning, but that’s a guess.
I’m good with the general rule that putting spoilers in threads requesting that there be no spoilers is frowned on. I think that’s what BigT was referring to, and I wouldn’t mind at all if the sticky thread were modified to that effect.
It is useful and reasonable to have the possibility of minimal internal, thread-specific rules so that particular topics can be discussed in particular ways, otherwise it would be quite difficult for posters to have some legitimate discussions. As an example, a poster recently lost someone they knew in a gun-related incident. Gun-related discussions were excluded from the thread so that posters could discuss the personal loss without getting swamped by gun debates. Was this not a good idea?
The flip side is that if someone is dissatisfied with the reasonable rules an OP has for his thread, such as whether to not to mention books when discussing a TV show or discussing gun control policy in a thread concerning personal loss, he’s quite free to start his own thread with a different set of minimal reasonable rules.
In other words: If some people wants to form the Potato Club and you want to eat tomatoes, you can try to convince the Potato Club to switch to tomatoes or to become the Potato & Tomato Club but if they don’t want to, you shouldn’t get to keep bringing up tomatoes at the Potato Club; Just start your own Tomato Club.
If a poster keeps disregarding the reasonable internal rules of a thread, he’s threadshitting which is jerk behavior for which Terr was banned and BrainGlutton was suspended. If he keeps whinging about not getting his way on this issue, he is refusing to abide by the finality of some SDMB decisions which is important for clarity and efficient board administration. This is petulant toddler behavior which, coming from an adult, is jerk behavior. Repeated jerk behavior should result in warnings. Repeated warnings should result in suspension and eventually banning.
Is this not the standard way in which the SDMB handles such issues?
The OP is an exercise in false equivalence. There were a group of us having our perfectly satisfactory spoiler-free discussion about the TV show when an individual came in and decided he wasn’t going to follow the thread rules. And then he started maliciously dropping spoilers. As SenorBeef said, the threads became nothing but arguing about the spoiler rules.
SenorBeef wasn’t a “crybaby” or “special snowflake” or whatever demeaning metaphor you want to apply. He took the initiative to work out a set of rules to let us all have what we wanted. The only person who lost out was the one who wanted to force spoilers on people.
I’m a big GOT fan. I like the way the discussions are now and the stickie can stay in place until the show ends it’s run as far as I’m concerned.
Agree with SenorBeef.
This past season was the first I was able to participate in the show thread in real time. All the previous threads I had to wait for the DVDs to come out and then go find the old threads to read, but not post because it was all over a year old.
It’s a sled. She’s a guy. He’s his dad. He’s dead. He’s Keyser Soze. She’s her sister and her daughter. He’s a patient. He killed her. He’s clones. He’s dying. It’s people. Her head’s in the box. He’s not real. You blew it up, damn you, god damn you all to hell.
Hmm…I’ve got Citizen Kane; The Crying Game; Empire Strikes Back; The Sixth Sense; The Usual Suspects; Chinatown; Shutter Island; ???; The Prestige; ???; Soylent Green; Seven; ???; and Planet of the Apes.
What ones am I missing? Sorry to be a pain but it’s going to drive me nuts!
P.S. - R+L=J and Hot Pie. Seriously, the clues are there…
I don’t follow the books, the show, nor the threads, but it’s my understanding that there were two approximately-equal factions, one of which wanted to just discuss the show, and one of wanted to discuss the books, too. This caused some friction early on, before the current two-thread solution was implemented, and that pretty much satisfied both sides. Well, except for the alluded-to poster who thought that that solution was Someone Wrong on the Internet, and who repeatedly violated the rules over it.
In other words, not only were the current rules not just to appease one person, but that one person is the only one who objects to the current rules. If everyone but one person is cool with a rule, and there were problems before the rule, then by all means, keep the rule.
Oh, and Tithonus, the last one you’re missing is probably meant to be Fight Club, though there are doubtless many other possibilities.
I watch the HBO show, but did not read the books. I appreciate folks not bringing spoilers from the books into the discussion threads, and it’s nice that they don’t end up in some rat hole discussion about how X scene in the book was sooooooo much better than in the show.
And so we have 2 threads-- one without spoilers from the books and one with. Pick your comfort zone, and everyone is happy.
I’m a book reader and show watcher, and a huge fan of both, and I also like the two threads. I really enjoy reading the reactions of unspoiled non-readers, as well as discussing the show with other readers.
