Thread:Minomelo/@comment-24891101-20151206190434

I have grave concerns over the spoiler thread.

It supplants the traditional speculation threads, which have existed since the start of the show, and serve as a place for community-led discussion, rather than mod-led discussion. I would rather they not die, as will happen if the spoiler threads, with the imprimatur of the wiki staff, continue to exist. It is a great tradition, and its greatest benefit was the equal footing it provided.

Far more concerningly, however, is the split this creates in the community. Naturally, sponsors will gravitate to the spoiler thread, while non-sponsors will gravitate to the speculation thread, with minimal crossover. Sponsors will not want to participate in a thread which is a rehash of everything they discussed the day before, and non-sponsors will not want to jump in late to a thread where all the initial reactionsh have already occurred and the conversation has evolved in ways they could not influence. And I and others miss the interaction with other people on the wiki who are in the other thread, and whose opinions we would like to hear, but cannot.

Consider the participants in the threads. There is minimal, if any overlap. This splits the community in two, where the same conversations are occurring in different places between different people. The point of an episode thread, and indeed the great fun of the speculation threads, is for the entire community, irrespective of sponsorship, to be able to come together in one place and discuss the episode. This new spoiler thread destroys that. It creates an elite clique of people with money to spend, and leaves the nonsponsors stranded outside in the cold. This is very bad. I'd much rather the community stay whole, where everyone comes together, ideally in a thread not created by a mod (no offence, but from a forum-goer's perspective, a mod-created thread is just a bit different in perception than another thread), as a whole community.

Thank you for your time. 