New Rules regardings Spoilers

[Serebii]

Right...I have had it already with the abuse with the new spoiler tag now so listen up and listen good. Here they are:

In Posts

No Misusing of the Spoiler Tag. Only use it WHEN it is a spoiler.
No Spoiler Stacking i.e. using multiple spoiler tags for just one spoiler. Only One extra tag is allowed
No Pointless Spoiling


For the Spoiler Stacking...here is what I won't accept
Roflcopter

Here is what I would accept

Ash Saw Ho-oh in this episode. He saw it as it was flying away...it had a Golden Aura
He also saw Ho-oh in this Episode...it had a Gold Aura but you could fully see it's colours
However...
He saw Ho-oh here when the Pyramid Flew Away...it had the Gold Aura again and there was a flashback back

Now for Sig Rules


No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags


First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with

[munchlaxboy]

Good thinking to make this thread Serebii! I was just wonderin... is mine ok?

[Eszett]

Aye, those sigs which were encased entirely in spoiler tags were getting annoying. Thanks for implementing this.

[Token]

Honestly, It is worse than the old spoiler. Do you really think people will stop misusing it at the threat of an informal warning? I'd skip that and go to an official one. Off topic, what happened to the old ones already in a post before you changed them? Did they switch or were they unspoiled?

[AJ Flibble]

Heh. Had to be: they were/are being abused left, right and centre. Nice rule that needed to be implemented before it was/is too late.

[ø®ΑпGЗ ♠]

Off topic, what happened to the old ones already in a post before you changed them? Did they switch or were they unspoiled?

They stopped working.

[FlamingRuby]

What if you wanted to make a table of contents for a fic and wanted to spoil the episodes you had yet to write? Is that okay?

[Serebii]

I just added the basic tag so that old Spoilers aren't covered

[cυтe тogepι]

Heh, good ol' rules. xD

Hopefully people won't abuse them now, or. . . most of them.

[RaZoR LeAf]

Now for Sig Rules


No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags


First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with


Actually this is wrong. Spoiler Tag abuse in sigs has already been brought up and will be treated like any other breach of the signature rules. Strike One - Offending part removed. Strike Two - Entire sig removed. Strike Three - Entire sig removed + Week ban. Thre's no point over complicating the sig rules with extra warnings just for this.

I shouldn't even half to point out how there was never this sort of problem with the old spoiler tags.

[DragonDance]

Thank God. Spoiler Stacking/ pointless sig spoilers were as annoying as hell.

[Serebii]

The instances are for general spoiler abuse Dan...not just in sigs thank you

[Hoshi no Kabii]

Its kinda sad that this rule was necessary. Yeah, all those spoiler sigs were quite annoying. Plus the stacking, ugh.

[Diljabar]

I knew they'd be trouble! I said it before! That's why I don't use spoilers!

[Medea]

Thank you Serebii!!!

I seriously got sick of that too. I mostly saw it in people's sigs and in the game forum.

[Serebii93]

Now for Sig Rules


No Pointless Use of the Spoiler Tag
No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
Absolutely no stacking of Spoiler Tags


First instance of breaking this will involve an informal Warning
Second would be a proper Warning
Third would be a deletion of the thing in question and a final warning
Fourth would be a ban

If you do it again after you're unbanned, you will get one warning before being banned for it again

The Spoiler Tags are there to protect spoilers...not for you to mess about pointlessly with
Okay, does that mean I can't cover my entire sig with a spoiler, even though it's proper length anyways? Do I need to take it off?

[Brandon-kun]

Okay thankx for reminding me Joe! I had to go get my sig approved! XD thankx for the reminder on this subject!

[Bulk]

Well, that didn't take long. It's stupid that some people on these forums can't stop themselves from abusing extra features when they are implemetated. It happened with the karma system and now it's happened here. I hope we never get custom avatars, all hell would break loose.

[Winter02]

I never use spoilers anyway...But it's good with these rules, i guess.

[hIrAm]

Hm, yes. I was wondering when another announcement about spoilers would pop up. I mean, there's no need to hide your signature, let everyone see it.

[FlamingRuby]

The only times I use spoilers is to hide info not seen outside Japan and hide fic episodes I have yet to write.

[Kijuna]

Hurray! Exactly what I've always wanted!

[Minami Itsuki]

Yes....those...stacky spoiler thingies were very annoying...especially to folks that are as curious as I. Oo

XDD Thanks!

[.Person.]

I noticed that today... I didn't like it at first. I'll get used to it. BTW, it's a good Idea.

[Jade]

Hmmm... I hate these people stacking up the spoilers with pointless stuff.

By the way, I like to have my sig nice and small. You can use a spoiler button to store any credits in to avoid stacking up your sig.

[Chaotic Houndoom]

Thank you, Serebii! They were getting carried away. x_X;

[SuperShadow]

Thanks Serebii and everyone else who made these rules. So these were abused, and it can get very annoying, espicially in signiatures when clicking on it doesn't show the signiature right away.

[Blaziken Trainer]

Oops. Guess I better fix my sig...

[Kaimorse]

Thank you so much. I've been sick of seeing people abuse the spoiler tags.

[Metal Force]

Good rule there Serebii....it annoied me to see people hiding big parts of there sig in a spoiler tag.

[Nayana]

Didn't I tell you they'd get abused? Anything that's halfway fun gets abused like crap around here--*shot*

Hopefully this will stop the abuse, but we'll see. :/

[Stephy]

I was getting very, VERY, annoyed/irritated with all those spoiler tags in the sigs. Why do you want to cover your own sig anyway? It's P.O.I.N.T.L.E.S.S.

Originally Posted By Roy Mustang
Yes....those...stacky spoiler thingies were very annoying...especially to folks that are as curious as I. Oo

Me too XD I keep seeing the spoiler, but they were extremely pointless and didn't even need a spoiler.

Orginally Posted By Nayana
Hopefully this will stop the abuse, but we'll see. :/

Yes, we'll see. Serebii Forums has some stubborn people...

[Missingno. Master]

Am I the ONLY person here who is not happy about this? I mean, I liked the idea where if someone wanted to see my sig, they'd have to click for it. Of course, I'm all for stopping people from stacking about 50 spoiler tags to conceal spam, but I didn't find the spoiler tags hiding the sigs annoying.

[Juputoru]

Am I the ONLY person here who is not happy about this? I mean, I liked the idea where if someone wanted to see my sig, they'd have to click for it.
...why? If people want to see sigs, they have that option turned on in their user CP. If they don't want to see sigs, they have that option turned off. Why make people who want to see sigs click something to see YOUR sig? It's pointless. I find it more annoying to see a "show spoiler" button instead of an actual sig. :<

Come on people, those who view sigs are USED to skimming over them(and perhaps stopping for a moment if they notice something interesting enough) by now, so you're not helping anything(time or space-wise) by hiding part or all of your sig, and chances are that the only people who think it's neat are you and the others who hide their sigs. At least now the people who do that will be hunted down and kil-er, have their sigs deleted by the Sig Patrol. :)

[Ben Kenobi]

Generally, people will abuse a function such as this. Another forum I'm a member on has similar spoiler tags which are misused in the same way.

[RaZoR LeAf]

Oh yes by the way, seeing as it's not mentioned here:

With the coming of the new spoiler tags comes a restriction on them. It is listed as rule 11 of the signature rules:

You are allowed only one (1) spoiler in your signature. No more than that. That includes individual spoiler and spoilers within spoilers. Also, the standard forum rules still apply with or without spoilers. If your signature is too tall or has images too large after the button is clicked, it is still considered breaking signature rules.

This is in the official Sig Rules now, so I suggest everyone take note.

[onix lord]

Nice. People who thought they were being funny with dumb things inside the spoilers were really starting to annoy me. I'm glad that this rule was made.

[fidani16]

I knew that you would make new rules for the spoilers. But since I am not from England and America, I can't speak English well, and I didn';t understand the word Stack, all I want to know, is my spoiler in my sig ok? Or should be removed?

[Black Dragon]

Stack = Too tall, which is over 420 pixels, if I understand the sig rules correctly.



Only 4 days after the new spoiler came up, and people are abusing it so much that Serebii had to make a rule? That's just sad. S-A-D. Sad.

[fidani16]

Thanks Black_Knight. But I found it in my dictionary.

Well, seems that my spoiler isn't big and can stay there.

By the way, this is a good rule because I saw many members doing the thing spoiler over spoiler, you know what I mean, right?

[Angeling]

Now, let's just hope people actually read this AND follow it. ;( Because it is frankly very annoying to see all those spoiler tags, and it can overstack, taking into account the spoiler tags on both ends. Though I don't know how much people even read the original signature rules...

[Bay]

Thanks Serebii for this rule on the new spoiler tags. I agree with you Eefi. I don't think very much people read the signature rules. That's why now I keep checking to see if my sig is all right, just double checking.

Yeah, I only use the spoiler tags if there is some spoiler in my fic or if I am reading a fic and then said something that might be in the fic in the near future.

;134;~Good night, and good luck~

[Alphonse Elric]

Hah! I knew it.

I knew that the New Spoiler Tags would get abused as soon as they were put into function. Well, this should clear things up, since basically EVERYBODY has got at least one Spoiler Tag in their sig. I just hope people actually read this, since I have seen some members who don't follow any of the rules at all. It is irritating.

You know, I thought of an idea for more people to read important announcements. Maybe you should make these announcements visible in every single forum and sub-forum, like the April Fools Heads-Up announcements. That way, anybody and everybody who goes to a specific forum or sub-forum can view the important announcements.

Well, I just hope more people read this so there will be more order around here, minus the abuse of unnecessary spoilers.

[Dephender]

Using a real spoiler in your example...
Really good job there, Joe :P

[Mimori Kiryu]

Thanks for this rule, it was getting annoying to see everywhere. >>;

[FireKero!]

Darn it, I never even got to abuse the new spoilers....:(

So many rule additions and changes. I wonder when the rules will totally be re-written.

[Levski]

Well, it's much better now, without those endless, spoil-envealed, stupid sigs. I don't use spoilers anyway, so it's no problem for me.

[CowDude]

Thank god. I was getting REAL tired of that.

[azurill]

I'm not sure I've understood the rules,is my sig alright?

[intergalactic platypus]

No its not, you can't hide the sig with a spoiler. And if anyone wonders further, theres a lovely sticky about it in SPPF help and newbie lounge. So, I'm very glad. I hate spoiler tag abuse

[Fiery Blaziken]

No hiding your entire/part of your signiture in the spoiler tag. The Sig Length is determined after spoilers have been viewed
But what if the sig is still within the sig rules after all the spoilers are open?

[Dean]

Is it ok if i use the spoiler to use to show my blishies?

[Zera]

Spoilers are extremely serious in nature, and the misuse os said spoilers will bring about the end of the world, :|

[Wolf Goddess]

Is it ok if i use the spoiler to use to show my blishies?

No.

Spoilers are extremely serious in nature, and the misuse os said spoilers will bring about the end of the world, :|

Using them for no reason is imperative to the survival of mankind. :|

[Sora]

The only thing that annoyed me about spoilers was the "HAHA MADE YOU LOOK." ones.

[SoulGuardian]

Good rules! Now people will start knowing how to use spoiler tags...Is mine Ok?

[Firemaker]

Have you noticed the date...

[Korobooshi Kojiro]

INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!

But seriously...I can't get my Spoilers to show up..ever.

[Elite 4]

Yay thanks Serebii, it was beginning to annoy me about everyone useing Spolier Tags for no reason.

[Firemaker]

HAVE ANY OF YOU NOTICED THE THREAD DATE!?

There were posts from May. It seems Serebii (or whoever) recovered the topic.

[Korobooshi Kojiro]

The hackers deleted stickies earlier.

[shirika2436]

Ive never bothered with spoilers... It was damn annoying, tho

[Metagross]

i never use the spoiler it's just pointless,i like to take in much information as possible.

[Turtloopa]

I switched on the option of not showing sigs. So no more *cross*OMG NOBODY LOVEZME*cross*, "my trainee card iz totally sweeet", "my shiniez r u leik enviousz?!", "my recolurs dot'n steal", and "*click**click**click**click**click*Roflcopter" for me :)
Now browsing the forum is much easier. That example of a bad spoiler usage roffled my waffles for some reason :)

[miken park]

ROFLCOPTER.
Thank you.
It's pointless even having them in your sig.

[zeppelin]

To be honest i think we sholdnt have them in sig,cos n00bs abuse the hell out of them and dont use them for any good real purpose.
oh and like agreeing with ruzzy seeing how they are pointless.

[exploud1994]

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[ClowSui]

first of all, post that somewhere else, not in the rules.

to be on topic, however, spoiler tags aren't really that common around sigs and stuff so i'm not really that worried about it but it's your choice joe

[Pikabolt]

hey, spoiler stacking is a neat idea. thanks for showing me that. *smiles with tounge through teeth*

[The Doctor]

Spoiler stacking was NEVER a neat idea. It's against the rules as it takes up unnecessary space. But if you think otherwise, then go ahead and get your *** banned. See if I care.

Back on topic, I can't see the real use of spoilers in sigs; seems pointless, and I don't intend to break that.

[Shuko]

first of all, post that somewhere else, not in the rules.

to be on topic, however, spoiler tags aren't really that common around sigs and stuff so i'm not really that worried about it but it's your choice joe
Lol. You missed the point entirely. Now rap yourself on wrist for missing the subtle humor. xD

Seriously. All he was saying is, rather than use the annoying spoiler tag, just link to the content you're referring to (when you can get away with it).

[Shuckle]

Lol, yeah, I saw a spoiler in this person's sig recently, the tag thing said 'don't read this'. Being the nosy little twit that I am, I opened it and it siad 'I LOVE FARTING'. They get maturer every day, don't they?

[eonteam123456]

I don't know about it really.

[Pikabolt]

Doctor, why'd you put *** instead of sig? that's stupid. People only do that when they swear, which they shouldn't be doing anyways.

But yeah now that you told me that serebii, I think I'm going to get in trouble for it someday now.

[Yemi Hikari]

Hi. I may have joined recently, but I agree that the rule needed to be inplace. First of all, stacking just iritates people and isn't necesarry at all. (Except for a definate spoiler within a spoiler.)

As for the sigs, they just go and distract from the forum threads as we go through them. And though some may be funny, the majority are not.

[pokemonster2191]

they were kind of distracting. is my sig ok?

[shinigami13]

Good people who put Spoiler tags for nothing are getting on my nerves since it wastes my time

[Fircoal]

I personally like spoiler tags but since I'm reletively new I have seen the massive spoiler chains. But I might like them. Why isn't this attached the the sig rules, because I oringally read the sig rules then I put a useless spoiler. That when pressed said, "There is nothing really here" Sp I didn't know I was breaking the rules until someone pointed it out for me.

So to the short point could you put this in the sig rules?

[Emerald Metagross]

Good thinking Serebii! Now all you have to do is to get rid of those brain-eating zombie sigs. Pointless and annoying as hell.

[Alzi]

yeh i don't see the point in people putting there sig in a spoiler