Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24494906-20150912191702/@comment-24494906-20150917180558

It's not a rule in my draft; it's "encouragement".

In other words, for now we admins usually won't act if someone does not follow it (except for sending a polite request to post on the chapter page if we see a need for it). I don't see a need currently to enforce such a rule, as most of the discussion is already centralized on the chapter page, and it's harder to tell if this rule might have some unintended consequences.

I personally don't like the infobox rule because a) it's dealing with a really limited special case that we probably won't run into very often b) we already have a more general rule to overrule the spoiler policy, and that rule is much safer than the other one. On the other hand, I can understand why it seems like such a hassle to ask for permission for these almost-always safe fields.

I doubt that the rules will be weakened later on. At most it will be weakened in the sense that other infobox fields might be added, but not in any other way.

However, we admins will observe how things will develop in the future and if there is a need to change/tweak the rules, we will propose that. (Or you or anyone can propose it.)

BTW, I've been thinking: How about we put the spoiler policy into effect later, but do not strictly enforce it yet this week? I mean not enforce in the sense that we won't send a formal warning to violators or block people if it's the first violation of the policy. We'll just send messages to inform them of the new policy. If they repeat the violation after they were informed, then it goes the normal Warning -> Block route.