The rule is: DON’T

if a game was released too recently, or worse yet, it’s unreleased, use the Spoiler tag to wrap all the offending content in the body text, and don’t type any spoiler into the title. Properly indicating there are spoilers inside the post is very recommend too. Oh, and as suggested by some people, major story spoilers from old games should be avoided as well!

What is “too recently”? Basically, use your common sense for this one. If you think there is still a lot of people playing the game for the first time, then that is a good indicator that you shouldn’t be saying out loud that Darth Vader kills Dumbledore and things like that.

Thanks for your understanding.

Edit: and this new rule has already been edited, thanks everyone for the suggestions.

  • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’d even argue just generally don’t drop major spoilers unannounced for older stuff either.
    For newer stuff tag ALL spoilers, for old stuff at least tag MAJOR spoilers?

    • srai@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      This. A prime example would be FFXIV, any FF game or any game really. If the game you talk about relies on twists and turns in the story you should use a spoiler tag even if it’s 30 years old.

      • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m still bitter about that one time someone asked me "The Sixth Sense? Isn’t that the movie where

        MAJOR PLOT POINT"

        Bruce Willis turns out to be dead all along?"

        I’ve never bothered to watch it.

      • Lilium@lemmy.mlOPM
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, thanks for the suggestion y’all; and as someone who started playing FFXIV not even a month ago, good point!

  • piece@feddit.it
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’d like to add that it would be nice to warn about spoilers about very old games too. I don’t think that should be a rule, but just nice.

    The whole “dude that game came out 30 years ago” argument doesn’t make sense because not everyone plays everything (and not everyone has your age).

  • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Good rule. Spoilers suck. Personally I also think spoilers for old games stink as well, especially if you’re a patient gamer. For example, spoiling the secret from Bioshock ruins the impact of the ending, no matter how old that game is.

    Also just a reminder that Lemmy has spoiler tags as well (triangle with an exclamation mark icon), so if in doubt use them, like so:

    spoiler

    Dumbledore did not have the high ground.

    • Lilium@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the reminder, but that only works for text, right? If it works for images or anything else, then the NSFW tag won’t be needed after all, but you got me wondering that now.

      Edit: I mean, I might as well just try it out:

      spoiler

      • 1
      • 2
      • 3

      I guess it will work with anything, thanks again, I will edit the rule to reflect that.

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Please remember that not all Lemmy clients render the spoiler markdown correctly in the feed, and therefore spoilers may be seen anyway.

    Over on c/formula1, we have a no spoilers rule in the post title, but given the above, we asked for the spoiler tags to be used as a courtesy.

  • CXDReaper
    1·
    1 year ago

    But, you just ruined Star Potter: Harry Wars for me by saying that!

  • frustbox@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    And please mention what your spoiler is for. Some people may be fine with early game spoilers, but not late game things. Or they may be fine with game mechanics spoilers but not story spoilers. So please don’t just wrap your whole post in a big spoiler/nsfw tag, give some context (as long as the context is itself spoiler free).