Harry Potter WarningFollow

As most of you probably know the last Harry Potter book, which has been 10 years in the making, comes out this Friday at midnight. Harry Potter may not matter to a lot of people, but he does matter to a good portion of many online communities, including this one. That being said, with the death in The Half Blood Prince came several people who thought it was funny to spoil the ending for people by springing it into threads or creating subjects with complete spoilers in it.

This post is to warn you that depending on the severity of your spoiler, your post count, and account status, posting a spoiler on this board will result in a punishment ranging from a 72 hour mute to a complete banning from the site. As I said, people have waited for this ending for 10 years. It's not funny to ruin it. Really, it isn't.

To those of you who read the books, I urge you to stay off the Internet until you are done reading. You know it will be done and you know that it only takes a second for the damage to be done. If you care enough, just stay away.

ImperialNinja will be watching for spoilers and nuking accordingly.

See thread on FFXI forum for original. Reposted here as well.

Edited, Jul 17th 2007 12:49pm by Wordaen

Edited, Jul 22nd 2007 9:43pm by Tomec

Hence the stickie. We don't want this to be "conveniently overlooked".

Sadly enough, you are correct there Tsa. No matter what we do, there will always be folks who assume we won't address it. Then act surprised when we do.

So far this particular forum hasn't had a problem with it, but I just wanted to post saying that we are VERY serious about this. So far I know of quite a few accounts that have been banned for doing this, so don't even risk it.

Your forum? >_> I was an admin when it was nothing but a twinkling dream in your eye! And besides, technically no one owns this forum

not that I don't get what you mean by the my comment, but still

This thread could use moar admin.

? Where? >.>

And oh god is IN gonna start spamming on this board?

A sticky regarding a book would fit on a book forum. Just saying.

Oh yeah, there should be a timer on bannings, very hard to know for how long I was banned. Well, impossible really.



Edited, Jul 22nd 2007 11:01pm by Zieveraar

I know it is, I read it after I posted my post on the science fiction and fantasy forum. Which is pretty much the book forum on alla's. Why not put this sticky on the book forum on alla's? Would have made sense.

And there is also a difference with starting a post that clearly indicates "spoilers" and a post specifically started to ruin it for other posters.

Yes, I did post it two days before the book was "officially" released, about two days after lots of readers in the US actually already had the book in their mail.

Water under the bridge, I did my time and have learned my lesson I suppose!