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First thank you Dabo for starting this thread. I have been aware and have appreciated the little things you have done this season to try to make the Survivor forums fun again. We are in a tough situation because we all have different ideas – and no one is wrong – and it’s hard to come to a consensus. However, I feel I need to put my opinion in because I don’t just want to disappear. I think I am speaking for some of the people who have already stopped spoiling because I am about to follow that route.
To use LFJ’s analogy – the missy spoilers have created a virus in the spoiler forum. I don’t want to blame the people who follow them because it is common knowledge and they have a right to use that knowledge in spoiling but it has changed the tenor of the forum. I used to be a hardcore spoiler and now I don’t enjoy it at all and my participation has dropped off. I don’t care what the protocol was 10 years ago. Missy’s spoilers have changed the playing field and we need new rules to play by. My vote goes to making certain threads source spoiler free and to label threads where source spoiling is welcome.
I especially think sourced spoilers should not be allowed in vidcap threads. It makes us lazy; maybe someday missy will be wrong! It also keeps the people who are only trying to go week-by-week in spoiling from sharing in the fun. It’s too late to change this season, but at the minimum (if we have the same amount of spoilage for Russell vs. Rob) I would like to see threads labeled whether they were spoiler vs. speculation. A speculation forum would be great, but I know it takes a while for a new forum to be created and I don’t think there are enough people like me left to warrant it. A personal example of a recent experience I had in the vidcap thread. I misread a post (it was in reply to someone else, and I thought it was in reply to me) saying that it didn’t matter what *** had on in trying to see if *** was wearing the immunity necklace because missy already told us that *** had won immunity. I was trying to have a little vidcap fun but the sourced spoilers had already moved on. The reason why they’re doing all the heavy lifting is because there is nothing left for the non-source spoiled people left to do. The people who are following missy’s every word are driving other people away. Blows is not the same forum that it used to be. It seems to me that the pro-sourced spoilers are creating an all or nothing scenario and I’d like to see some compromise.
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