Thread:BenRG/@comment-26397825-20170121180653/@comment-26512661-20170121204931

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: 90% of the experience you have in any given community has to do with your own actions as a part of that community. Nah. What you're saying, with context here, is pretty much "9/10 times, if you think X community is bad, the things that make you think that were self-inflicted, you were asking for it"....

...In other words, the complainer is the one to blame. When often, it's the community itself what led that complainer to think that, without said complainer being the one to blame (all the time).

Most of the time, one's experience within a community doesn't have much to do with what one themself has done within it, but with what they've seen and experienced within it. You think everyone who complains about Tumblr has actually made a Tumblr account and participated with them?

As for the bit of the spoiler comment.....I didn't get to see his comment and have no idea of what he said exactly, but judging from Spirit's comment, he implied there's something involving Mechanics in the new episode......

.....And given I still don't know shit about what actually happens in the episode, I can only see 4 possibilities based on that:

1) We see Penny's father.

2) We see the Atlesian Military.

3) We see a village with an actual airport for airships to come and go (which RNJR has been looking for since almost forever).

4) He said bullshit to throw people off.

And in the end, what do I get? I don't know shit about what actually happens in the episode. He implied something, but there's quite a lot missing, so in the end I still know nothing.

Sure, I could do what Chish says and just brainstorm, think about it and think of some possibilities, but in the end, unless I truly spoil myself, I still don't know shit about what actually happens, and by extension, I don't know if any of the possibilities I thought up actually happen. I could hit bull's eye. I could miss by a mile. I could've hit something. I have no idea which it will be until I actually see the episode.

The human brain desires completitude; if we have a piece of the puzzle we gain unrest until we have the other pieces. By exploiting that, one achieves exactly what Ben said in his second post: Increase the people's urges to see the episode, to fill that void in the info.

Now, I didn't read the original spoiler comment so I'm not sure how obvious or subtle it was exactly, so I'm not going to force the issue (yet)....but personally, something that implies X, but in the end leaves everyone having 0 idea of what's going to happen....something that, overall, even if a specific keyword was used, leaves one still not really knowing what happens....it shouldn't bring the admins down one's throat.

Now, if it was something like Chish's 2nd example (with Yang), something that was being too obvious, then it should bring the hammers. You misunderstood mechanics.Figuring out what might happen in the episode from their comment was rather easy and it didn't read like it was supposed to throw off.