Sub Update: Everyone Must Read! - Turn Your Messages Off NOW! (Really I'm serious, turn them off)

I want to thank all the members who were kind and understanding during this SpoilerGate. The ModMails, personal PMs and Chats, and community outreach on other subs has truly shown how much this sub means to The Challenge Community. 

Please take this time to carefully read this post.

We had someone who decided they had nothing better to do in this already difficult time for the world than send messages with spoilers for Total Madness to members. 

If you are active on our sub, you know how seriously we take spoilers and strive to be the one place available to Challenge fans to discuss the show without needing to worry about spoilers. 

In the past year since the new mods have taken over, we have put protections in place that some may deem "overzealous." When we took over the sub before WOTW1 we listened to the community that rampant spoilers needed to be stopped. So we upped our Automod game, updated our flair system, enforced strict bans for spoilers, and hired mods who were passionate and caring about protecting the sub from spoilers by reading every post that hits the sub and monitoring it's comments threads. 

We have done everything in the power Reddit allows us to make this a safe place to enjoy The Challenge spoiler free. HOWEVER, we now need to ask unspoiled members to also protect yourselves. The first thing you need to do if you are serious about remaining unspoiled, is to turn your PMs and Chats off, right now. Click here to view a post that explains how to change your settings to trusted users only. 

These changes can only be made on a desktop computer. 

We have set the sub to restricted. What this means is everyone can view again, but for the next few hours we will not be allowing new posts so that this post can be viewed and unspoiled can take time to change their preferences to not get PMs and Chats from random users. 

If you were affected by this SpoilerGate, please take time to report the PM/Chat to admins. This will help get the user's IPs banned from all of Reddit. And then immediately turn your PMs and Chats off. I cannot stress this enough. Please, please, turn them off if you are unspoiled. 

The sub will be back to normal for episode day. Thank you for understanding and showing how much this sub means to The Challenge community. 

Again, please check out this post by clicking here for how to turn your messages to trusted users only so this doesn't happen again to you for this show or others. This has happened on other subs after discussing with other Reality TV mods. The best way to prevent it, is to just turn those PMs off. 

After you have changed your preferences, make sure to check out the first 5 minutes of Total Madness here!

To the member(s) who caused this SpoilerGate. I hope karma hurts when it slaps you. When your life gets hard and you ask yourself what you did to deserve it, think about all the hearts of those you crushed. You are scum, you need to get yourself a hobby or a Netflix subscription to better waste your time. Don't take care, and hope to see you never.