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Akka, the way the current system works is the entire discussion is handicapped by the rules in hopes if it can't move, nobody gets hurt. Unfortunately this only works (if anywhere) in threads which are reasonably new, get some average discussion and are fairly mediocre as far as discussion speed goes. Everything else (slow threads, fast threads) either crawl along or roll along just fine, even with the handicap. The reason being, given enough mass (ie. spontaneous/spammy discussion) or lack of mass (ie. very precise discussion) the distinction between spoiler and non-spoiler becomes very subjective. In both cases unless the moderators are extremely knowledgeable with regard to the source material, the spoiler is effectively a needle in a haystack.

You're not the first, and undoubtedly not the last, to complain about this issue with spoilers.

In a ideal world it would me more practical (and logical) to simply prevent people from being spoiled, when required. But that would mean keeping/generating blacklists/whitelists and periodically setting sections/threads to require-moderation before posts are published. Since this would require creating plugins, etc, we have no choice but to live with the handicap-system.