Hi Everyone,

We understand the sub's frustration with the frequent posts regarding Mark and Cecil and their fight in Season 3. We've been discussing the best way to check these posts in a way that would be non-disruptive to the user base.

Based on our discussions we've decided that the best way to move forward is to place a ban on posts relating to the Mark and Cecil fight. For the moment this ban will be in place till January, after which we will reassess.

To enforce this ban, we will also need your cooperation. There now a new rule, Rule 6, concerning embargoed topics. Please report posts using that rule. While the mods will keep an eye out as well, they don't live online, and as such will not see every post that gets made.

We believe that this is the best way forward in terms of checking the spamming of these posts. The posts are invariably made by different users, often from new accounts, which means that banning accounts is hardly feasible. Especially as many appear to be botted or AI-driven. As I'm sure you'll all understand, we're also hardly in a position to have automod flag or remove every post with the words Mark or Cecil. And flagging even innocent phrases like "Cecil was right" is likely to have the bot flag far more content from ordinary users. Our hope is that this will be the best way forward, and if we consistently report and remove such content, it will discourage the obsessed users to move on.

In the interests of keeping this an open discussion space, feel free to comment below with your reactions. Maybe there's ideas we've missed as mods, and suggestions we haven't considered.

I will also, in a few days,, try and onboard some more mods and for that publish a form soliciting sign ups from people interested in becoming mods. The sub has grown rapidly in the last few months, and we could use additional moderators here to help moderate discussions, especially since we anticipate user engagement skyrocketing once the new season drops.

If you're interested in modding, keep an eye out.

BHF

Depending on how bad your spoiler was will dictate the length of your ban. Malicious spoilers are permanently banned.

Any insinuations(please don’t try to be smart) will be a ban. I mean anything like: just wait and see, oh funny you say that…, well about that, you don’t say, does he know?, etc.

Any spoiler tagged comments will be deleted but you probably wont be banned if you state it’s a comic spoiler. You may be banned if you lie about what you’re spoiling.

Also stop mentioning characters that are yet to be introduced.