Is it a ToS violation to /sh spoiler of other video games?

[Yasuhiro]

Or you can avoid spoilers by avoiding the internet. Problem solved.

I learned my lesson. I found Persona 5 spoilers on a freaking recipe for a cake on the internet!
I wasn't even really angry I just laughed because of all the places to find spoilers...

[Jeycht]

If someone in Idyllshire straight up shouts, "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!".

*clapclap* Thank you sir. I haven't read the book yet but planned to do it soon.
You talk about being self-aware and you straight do it. GJ.

No tbh I don't care. I don't care about spoil and if people ask to ban for that kind of thing I hope it's a joke.
Like really, how a spoil is considered as a "harrasment" or even ruin ANYTHING.
I got spoil for tons of thing but that doens't mean I didn't enjoy the thing after that.
btw even if I "defend" the spoiler guy be sure I never spoil since I understand that some people are mad for no reason ... heh

[Lambdafish]

If someone in Idyllshire straight up shouts, "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!" blacklist isn't going to do you much good. The damage is already done - the troll has accomplished their goal. And, in this instance, it's pretty clear that trolling WAS the intent. It's not unreasonable to ask a GM to punish them for what was clearly an attempt to harass other players.

There is a big difference between discussing the ending of a game "omg did you get to X fight in World of final fantasy (or any game that came out recently)?" "yeah, then when ____ happened, that was so cool", and reading off all of the spoiler moments to upset people (even then, context such as which game is very important, I feel that XV spoilers may be grounds for banning as the game has not been released yet, but an older game, or even a non plot-centric game such as pokemon, not so much).

You just spoiled Harry Potter in the former context, so you are fine, you didn't go around the internet on day one of the books release yelling the statement.

Edit: I see nowhere that the OP makes it clear that the trolling was intentional, the OP comes across as extreme and vague so it is difficult to work out any kind of motivated attack.

[Averax]

Spoiling isn't against the ToS. People just hate it.

You could spoil the opening cutscene here and people would get mad.

I was helping someone with a question they had about a quest in early thanalan (like level 8 stuff), they were pretty vague about it so i asked what the context of the quest was. Someone immediately jumped in and hushed our conversation because "we were about to spoil the entire plot". I guess helping people out isn't aloud now because of dangerous spoilers.

[Chocolys]

You can always use /tell to help someone

I personally do not care about spoilers but I understand those who do.

[Lewtskie]

Someone immediately jumped in and hushed our conversation because "we were about to spoil the entire plot". I guess helping people out isn't aloud now because of dangerous spoilers.

You know, one thing that drives me up a wall with that is... people who haven't experienced it yet aren't inclined to know what to expect, and they won't typically think about it. When someone says something like that, all I can think of is you're implying something is going to happen soon or a designated point. Even if you don't specifically say a spoiler, by getting hush-hush about it YOU JUST PUT THE IDEA IN THEIR HEAD! So suddenly when it was a casual situation, they're now going to think about what's going to happen and the surprise of the impact is lost.

[SpookyGhost]

OP got spoiled on XV. I got spoiled too, know how it feels. Nothing you can really do about it though, just kind of have to hope that the story is amazing enough that it doesn't matter.

[Welsper59]

I learned my lesson. I found Persona 5 spoilers on a freaking recipe for a cake on the internet!
I wasn't even really angry I just laughed because of all the places to find spoilers...

Was it a YouTube video comment section that you were looking at? I could be looking up a video on how to tie a knot and probably get Rogue One spoiled for me there.

[Zarcoft]

You can't censor someone for using the freedom of speech, now if they were shout profanities with the spoilers then yes you can report them. But trying to report someone for ruining a story for you is kind of dumb, if you don't want spoilers then turn off shouts and avoid every site on the internet.

[LineageRazor]

*clapclap* Thank you sir. I haven't read the book yet but planned to do it soon.
You talk about being self-aware and you straight do it. GJ.

Oh, I was very self-aware - I used this particular example PRECISELY because it was used in exactly that way. When that volume of Harry Potter was released, the Internet practically erupted with trolls eager to get a giggle by spoiling that particular plot point.

Which is also why I felt it was safe to use. If you so much as touch the Internet, you've probably seen "Snape kills Dumbledore" floating around. It's practically a meme by this point, and definitely falls under the It Was His Sled trope (opps, spoilers for Citizen Kane, watchout!) - spoilers that are so steeped into pop culture that they no longer even qualify as spoilers. (And, to be fair, the whole thing about Snape killing Dumbledore isn't NEARLY as interesting as WHY Snape killed Dumbledore, so it's actually still not that much of a spoiler.)

Edit: I see nowhere that the OP makes it clear that the trolling was intentional, the OP comes across as extreme and vague so it is difficult to work out any kind of motivated attack.

I by no means am supporting or decrying the OP. I'm simply pointing out that, yes, spoiling CAN be a form of player harassment. Was this the case for the OP's situation? I have no idea.