Board Thread:Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130402085158/@comment-188432-20130403171436

Nah, it's not harsh at all.

It is perfectly possible to conduct ourselves in a way that will not admit spoilers to the site. We—all of us—completely control the content of the site. All we have to do to avoid spoilers is simply to, yanno, not write them.

If you as an individual want to spoil yourself, go right ahead: the Doctor Who website, and many others besides, are only a click away. But as none of those sites, including the official website, are valid sources for the writing of our in-universe articles, you really don't need to visit them—and thus encounter spoilers—in order to be a good editor.

Remember, many of our editors primarily work in areas of the wiki well away from the most current stories. We have people specialising in audio adventures, periodicals, toys, comic strips, the classic series, short stories. And of course we have some people who are more or less exclusive Torchwood editors, and those that generally prefer the spin-off material as a whole.

As for the length of the block, consider this. Spoiling regular stories gets you a multi-month block as it is; spoiling the biggest events in Doctor Who history should naturally earn you a permanent block — especially since the principles of T:SPOIL have been enshrined on the site for about three years now.

This isn't some new thing we're rolling out; it's simply announcing ahead of time precisely what the punishment for spoiling the anniversary events will be.