Michael Heide
The 8th Wise Man
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2010
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
No, you haven't. Because the split has absolutely no effect on the ending of Ocarina of Time, only on games that take place after that ending. And none of those littleI beg to differ. Basically because, if I say In OoT at the end of the game link goes back in time allowing for a split timeline theory to be possible. And then publish something that appears that way in my sig. Haven't I just released end game details?
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graphics explain why there is a split after OoT, so they don't spoil the actual ending. You can't tell me that someone who looks at these little ASCII roadmaps that hasn't played OoT before can conclude from that little "<" that an adult Link defeats Ganondorf and gets sent back to the past which creates this alternate timeline.
So far, we don't have a clear definition of Spoilers yet. That's the point of this thread.According to mods with a very strict definition of Spoilers, I have.
I think we can all agree on neither of those two things being an actual spoiler.and therefore someone with a time line theory w/ a split in their signature would be in violation of spoiling just as much as someone who says "when peace returns to Hyrule it will be time to say goodbye"
That's not a solution. That's a copout.Simple way to solve it is... Let's be a Forum that doesn't care about spoilers.
But what of accidental spoilers?Mods don't need to moderate, and if the intent of spoiling is to troll another member then we have already an infraction set up for the violation.
No, you don't. You have to do those things to know why people place WW after OoT. Big difference.That may be true, but WW coming after OoT and MC coming before FSA, you have to play those games some and actually discover some key story points before you can tell where those go. Major WW and MC spoiler.
You have to go to Hyrule castle under the ocean first before you know where WW takes place.
I agree. But we need a clear rule saying how old is "old enough". And if there is such a thing as "too old" and if a certain piece of information can cease being common knowledge among a new generation of fans.When a game is old enough that all the spoiler information is common in conversation among all members and is divulged in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article about it, then a spoiler rule should not be enforced.
But removing all spoiler rules tabula rasa cannot be the solution. There has to be a middle way.Saying that spoiler information covers any and all plot details of every title regardless of age is asking a lot. This would transform almost any casual conversation about ALTTP or WW into nothing but a series of spoiler tags in fear of violating some rule, or secondary rule such as changing the spoiler subject. Or worse yet, there simply will be no more casual conversation on ALTTP or WW any longer. Rules like this will only cause so much annoyance and anger that it will only drive people to move over to other forums where there are more lenient rules and can openly talk about games without fear of being punished for doing so.