[Crow Business] The new spoiler tag updates are now live!
r/asoiaf strives to be a community where all fans of the series are welcome to come together, share our ideas and learn from each other.
Our growing community means more people with different ideas and knowledge to bring to the table about the series—but also different needs.
To make the subreddit accessible and inviting to different fans, we've tweaked the spoiler tagging system to make it easier for you to sort content and find the tinfoil Valyrian steel you want—and none of the stuff you don't.
And more fans equals more eyes on your newest theories, more new content for you to read—and a bigger, better community of crows seeking to understand the series together.
#Spoiler Tags
For most users, what you need to know is:
- Main: The books and show.
- Extended: Other officially released statements and material, INCLUDING TWOW SAMPLE CHAPTERS.
- Production: Production stuff on the next season.
For the detail-oriented:
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If you like diagrams, you can look at this. Each ring contains the information in the rings inside it.
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If you like tables we have this. This is just a snippet of our bigger spoiler tag listing.
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The Production scope is only available for posts discussing information about future seasons, and will be manually filtered by the moderators, similar to what we did on Sundays and Mondays during Season 6.
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No Spoilers and the book-only scopes are the same as before.
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Unauthorized releases of finished content will continue to be restricted to Megathreads with the tag (Spoilers Infinite).
For even more details on the spoiler system updates, see this earlier post.
#Data
u/fat_walda has prepared a report on data from our mid-season survey. The report contains questions relevant to the revision of the spoiler tag system. While this was not the only data we considered when making our updates, it did influence our decision to phase out Spoilers Everything, and helped to inform the appropriate spoiler tag level for various kinds of media.
Here is the data presentation relevant to the changes we made.
Posted Sep 5, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC
I wish you good fortune in the clusterfuck to come
Thank you for the ringing endorsement. The positivity we really need for the morning of release.
HEY EVERYONE. I REALLY REALLY LOVE THESE CHANGES, I'M SUPER THRILLED TO NOT BE ABLE TO POST/READ EVERYTHING POSTS!
(Sorry, I didn't realize this was a positive comments only scope)
Can you give me an example (keeping in mind that Crow Business posts are no spoilers) of how this will keep you from posting or reading content that was previously covered under Spoilers Everything? This is an organizational change, not a content change.
If I read that say...Ser Pounce is seen at the wall. I now know that information. So if I make a post saying "how is Ser Pounce going to end up on the Iron Throne" obviously I now think it's going to involve him joining the Walkers. Now there might be some foreshadowing for that (and personally I think this is as obvious as Jon's Parentage) but the reason i'm convinced about that and will say so is due to a production leak. So using Extended doesn't really cover that, even though i'm not explicitly talking about Production leaks, the knowledge I have and will talk about in some way is due to that.
I do actually think a Production tag is a good idea but I think implementing it like this is going to result in people being unintentionally spoiled. Also I struggle posting here at the best of times nevermind when the tag system keeps changing.
Sure....(WARNING ALL THE NAMES AND SITUATIONS TO FOLLOW ARE MADE UP)
So let's say that I have a question/theory/comment about a Stark's special needs cousin "Bleh" and how I think her son/daughter/spawn might be a time traveling fetus from Narnia. I base this on the fever dreams of her cousin who was chugging milk of the poppy in book one.
I want to tag it spoilers all (back when that was a thing before everything was anything) because I want to know if my theory/question/comment has any legs. I don't care if the cousin died in a short bus pileup in book one, I want to know if someone has inside info from grainy pictures on the set or from GRRM's ass tattoo.
I want to tag it spoilers all because I want to know....
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No we wouldn't do that, it'd limit quality discussion of how everything is terrible before it even has a chance to go into effect.
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