LAST EDITED ON 11-13-10 AT 01:03 AM (EST)

Perhaps I have misinterpreted the interim results of the ongoing discussion(s) addressing the Forum's environment, but it seems to me that - for the moment - they are:

1. Given that its Administrators have made no statement to the contrary, the Forum's mandate remains '(The) Survivor Spoilers Forum (is) exclusively for the discussion of possible Survivor spoilers and their speculation.'

Note: I agree with OFG's interpretation of the language.

2. Given the endorsement of a wide spectrum of the Forum's participants who, in turn, represent a wide range of spoiling interests, the following proposal(s) submitted by Krautboy have - for the moment - become a de facto working agreement:

"I would like to propose that the burden of being unspoiled in the Spoilers Forum falls on the unspoiled poster and reader. Those who would like a spoiler free thread in the Spoiler Forum should make their request clear in the Subject line and in the header of their post. At the same time, those of us who are spoiled would respect those threads and avoid posting any information deemed to be "sourced".

This would apply to Veruca's editing thread, the Vote thread and the East Coast Thread.

It should not be necessary to post a SPOILER ALERT in the Spoiler Forum, rather it should be required to request the courtesy of a SPOILER FREE ZONE in the Spoiler Forum.

I'm sure the spoilers here at SBlows would make every attempt to accommodate our unspoiled friends, and continue to enjoy Survivor together where possible ...

Spoiling should be expected in the Spoiler Forum, but if the unspoiled want to create a discussion thread as a "Spoiler Free Zone", they should be welcome to do so. However, to be effective, it should be labled clearly, with the expectations for that thread clearly outlined up front. I'm sure the spoilers will do their best to respect that request within that thread.

Again, the burden of remaining unspoiled within the Spoiler Forum falls on the unspoiled. They should be responsible for creating and identifying their "safe havens" within this Forum. We spoilers will, of course, do the best we can to accommodate them."

3. As an experiment, Krautboy later authored a Vidcap thread and requested that it be a Spoiler Free Zone.

4. Applied to the twenty-six threads that have hosted activity from November 1st to date, the product of that working agreement is that the authors of the following twelve threads - in essence, five recurring threads - have requested (or would have requested) that sourced spoiler content be restricted to comments germane to the current Episode only (in the Voting, ECS and SOTS threads) or be omitted entirely. Forum members can now access (or could have accessed) any of the twelve without fear of encountering inappropriate (to the thread) sourced material:

a. Discussion of Spoiler Forum Protocol: Spoiler Free Version
b. The Thread to Restore Sanity

c. The Players, The Game, The Editing - Survivor Nicaragua

d. EP10 Vidcaps ***Spoiler Free Zone***
e. Ep 9 Vidcaps
f. Ep. 8 "Company Will be Arriving Soon", Vidcaps

g. SurvivorBlowsTribe, Time To Vote: S21 ep9
h. SurvivorBlowsTribe, Time To Vote: S21 ep8

i. S21 Nicaragua Episode #9 ECST
j. S21 Nicaragua Episode #8 ECST

k. SOTS Ep 8 Company Will Be Arriving Soon
l. S21 Nicaragua: State Of The Spoiling Calendar & Sign-Ups

And in the absence of any request by the author that their spoiling content be restricted to any degree, the following fourteen threads are now expected to contain (or would have been expected to contain) sourced material and their authors/ contributors are not now required to post (or would not have been required to post) any warning to that effect. Nor should they now expect to encounter (nor should they have expected to encounter) within those threads any criticism of their choice to include sourced content in their discussion of the topic:

a. Spoiler Forum Protocol? Warning! Here Be Source Spoilers!

b. Ep 9 Title "Stuck in the Middle" and Clues
c. Ep 8 Title "Running the Camp" and Clues

d. Quick question....POSSIBLE SPOILER INFO

e. Jury Vote Speculation

f. Any 1st episode "winner" quotes?
g. S21 Editing Topic for the Thoroughly Spoiled

h. S21 RTVW and other post-game interviews
i. Jeff Probst says ...
j. Ponderosa Clips

k. Episode 9 Insider clips
l. Ep 8 Insider Clips

m. Missyae Spoilers Survivor 21 (Part 2)
n. missyae & other source spoilers S22 -- Rob vs. Russell

I would really be interested in hearing other opinions regarding 'where we are'.