Difference Between Spoilers and Extreme Spoilers

A SPOILER is a post that contains information about what happened on the most recent Heroes episode. This is because not everybody gets to see Heroes on Mondays at 8 pm due to various reasons. Maybe their local NBC affiliate decided to pre-empt Heroes to show sports instead, so they'll show it on Saturday instead. Maybe they live on the West Coast and don't get to see it until 11 pm. And so on and on. This SPOILER rule is to protect them.

The episode is officially considered in SPOILER mode from the first minute it airs (for Heroes, Monday at 8:00 EST) and lasts for a week. Once the week is done, you can discuss the episode or stuff that happened there without using "SPOILER."

Promos for next week's show are covered under the above rule.

An EXTREME SPOILER is any information about a show that has not been aired yet. The only exception is the promos, and that's because promos are, technically, already aired. If you know what's going to happen with a certain brain-sucking villain a few episodes down the road, you must include EXTREME SPOILER. Even if the episode is going to air in 5 minutes, you must include EXTREME SPOILER.

Also, when making a subject heading, do NOT include the spoiler in the title! A post titled "Chandra Suresh -- EXTREME SPOILERS" would get deleted immediately. Chandra isn't on the show right now. Therefore, the mere fact that you're telling us there's an extreme spoiler about Chandra automatically tells us that he *will* be on the show. That's an extreme spoiler in itself. Merely say something like "Episode 17 -- EXTREME SPOILERS" so people who want to be spoiled can check it out, and those who don't can avoid it.

And yes, casting information is considered EXTREME SPOILER.

Any posts that include EXTREME SPOILERS but doesn't have the warning will be deleted.

So, basically ...

Before the show airs = EXTREME SPOILER.
After the show airs = SPOILER.

--The Management