User blog comment:GreyStark/V5 FIRST news/@comment-25936766-20170914195730/@comment-25936766-20170915175430

A 24-hour wait for Non-First members was perfectly fine, and allowed free-members to quickly discuss things with First-members without worrying too much about "being late to the party" or getting spoiled to hell, and gave them about 6 days to theorize before the next episode came.

A 72-hour wait only divides the fandom severely, and is only comparatively-better than 1 week.

1) It means that Free-members cannot really discuss things with First-members for 3 entire days, because they haven't watched the episode yet and thus have basically no idea of what happened.

2) Free-members who don't want to be spoiled must practically hide in bunkers and isolate themselves from the rest of the FNDM, further isolating both sides from each other.

3) By the time Free-members can finally converse in peace with First-members, given how much discussion and theorizing happens in the FNDM (both here and in other places), most things have likely already been discussed.

It's complete bullshit.