r/drama: /r/Pokemon mods allow endgame spoiler to be posted for Pokemon Sun/Moon a week after Christmas. Delete every post complaining about spoilers policy, ban users for violating Rule 2 which is "Don't be rude"

/r/Pokemon mods allow endgame spoiler to be posted for Pokemon Sun/Moon a week after Christmas. Delete every post complaining about spoilers policy, ban users for violating Rule 2 which is "Don't be rude"

130 2017-01-01 by DrKingSchultz

61 comments

n/a SnapshillBot 2017-01-01

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n/a DrKingSchultz 2017-01-01

"While we're sorry that some people coming from /r/all[1] got spoiled by a top trending post, we don't cater the subreddit to specific religious/Hallmark holidays, but rather to the demands of the community as a whole. This is the reason we go by English or World release dates rather than Japanese."

So, fuck all the community members who got their new Pokemon game on Christmas because mods are edgy.

A friend informed me he was banned due to violating Rule 2, when his comments were asking for spoilers to be properly marked.

n/a merqury26 2017-01-01

waaaaaah

n/a TruthPains 2017-01-01

I don't love you, I just love shaggin' yer nan m8

n/a barbedvelvet 2017-01-01

That's so dumb. The majority of subscribers of that sub probably celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah. If not for religious reasons, for the loot, or maybe a mixture of both. The mods must be too euphoric.

n/a you_cant_banme 2017-01-01

I've never actually seen someone celebrate christmas for the religion. Everyone I know do it for the cultural, family get-togetherness of it.

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

I'm more surprised people care about the plot of a Pokemon game

n/a FreeDory 2017-01-01

I had someone go off on me because I spoiled the plot of fallout 4. Like, dawg, it's really dumb.

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

I really don't care about spoilers in video games. but I'm also one of those awful people that likes to use walkthroughs. not because I need help with the game, but I really hate missing optional shit like side quests

n/a FreeDory 2017-01-01

I used to care, but then i realized it's just pixels. Worthless pixels.

n/a DrKingSchultz 2017-01-01

I used to care about anything, then I realized time is an illusion and we're all slowly heading towards death. Why care about anything

n/a FreeDory 2017-01-01

Nihilism is truly liberating. Isn't it? Now we're free to pleasure ourselves within out fleeting existence.

n/a a_normal_human 2017-01-01

That's the name of my cat.

n/a Strephyl 2017-01-01

wow a cat named after the egyptian cat god

n/a a_normal_human 2017-01-01

I know, right?

n/a Arathian 2017-01-01

I can understand spoilers in two instances:

1) heavy narrative games (like witcher 3)

2) heavy secrets game (like dark souls)

Anything else is fucking dumb af

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

yeah I get why some people would care about those. I have a habit of starting games like the Witcher 3 with the intention of not spoiling stuff, but then I realize I probably don't have time to play it more than once and don't want to get a shitty ending

Pokemon I still don't get though. I remember that sub was complaining when then new Pokemon were being revealed that it shouldn't be allowed since some people want to go into the game knowing absolutely nothing about it, including the starters

n/a Allanon_2020 2017-01-01

I always found spoiling the plot line helped me enjoy the material better

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

this. felt like I was the only one

n/a Allanon_2020 2017-01-01

Yeh spoilers never really bothered me. I like seeing the mechanization for moving the plot forward and seeing how well they do it

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

this exactly. playing the Witcher 3 right now and know exactly what ending I want. it doesn't really spoil anything for me since I like seeing how the game gets there

although books and movies I'd rather not spoil

n/a humanmanguy 2017-01-01

The plot in a video game is only one part of the entertainment experience, whereas the plot in a book or movie is the book or movie.

Unless of course that "game" is one of those retarded visual novels.

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

that actually makes a lot of sense. not used to that here

n/a atakeonhooper 2017-01-01

n/a Goliathwins 2017-01-01

theres actually some research done on that

n/a fierwall5 2017-01-01

That is our opinion. As someone that plays games more for the story than the multiplayer. When some one spoils a game for me it was worst than a movie. I invest way more time to playing and beating a game than I do watching a movie. So ya while it might be silly in your eyes we all have our own forms of entertainment.

n/a goh13 2017-01-01

I mean, even if you told me X kills Y, it is not spoiler-ish enough for the thing to turn sour. Why did X kill Y? Did he kill him for real or was it part of a trick/fake death? How did he kill him? Did Z have any benefit from this feud? So many questions and only watching or further spoiling is the answer.

I had Death Note and Game of Thrones spoiled and yet they are one of the best shows I have seen and I watched them countless times.

n/a Doomblaze 2017-01-01

death note would have been awful if it was spoiled for me... The whole appeal of it is the suspense.

Granted that was like 12 years ago so who knows how i'd like it if i watched it now.

n/a fierwall5 2017-01-01

That's how you feel. Knowing that x killed y regardless of the reason will change how you feel about x for better or worse. Changing how the developers wanted you to feel about a person before they wanted you to change how felt about a character.

Also with that logic giving away any part of a movie doesn't really mean anything because we don't know there motives.

n/a crudmaster 2017-01-01

like witcher 3

Here's the thing, you could tell someone a spoiler for Witcher 3, and there's a good chance their game will go very different anyway.

n/a ComedicSans 2017-01-01

Once I found out the Fallout 4 endgame, I had absolutely no reason to try to finish it. It sounds really dumb, and having met him, I do not care for Shaun at all.

n/a sillybandland 2017-01-01

Same :(

n/a beer__shits 2017-01-01

I recently started playing Pokémon Y and I can't possibly button mash through cutscenes fast enough

n/a bytewake 2017-01-01

first Pokemon game I couldn't finish. the rivals and npc's were annoying, even without exp share the game was super easy, and pretty much nobody had more than like 3-4 pokemon. game just felt boring

n/a Orsonius 2017-01-01

You gotta pvp mate

n/a dogcatbirdplane 2017-01-01

man children

n/a MimesAreShite 2017-01-01

plots of pokemon don't make any sense anyway. team rocket are ostensibly a criminal outfit, but they follow some weird moral code which means that if someone beats them at pokemon they have to back down. he's a 10 year old kid, just knock him out and you can do what you want.

n/a DrunkAutopilot 2017-01-01

To be fair, that 10 year old kid just beat their ass with animals that can shoot anything from fireballs up to directed energy weapons. The bigger plot hole is why are we giving 10 year olds military grade arms.

n/a MimesAreShite 2017-01-01

The bigger plot hole is why are we giving 10 year olds military grade arms.

the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a pokemon...

n/a goh13 2017-01-01

Now that you bring this up...

Can you kill Pokemons with guns? I mean, what is the limit here? What will happen if I hold a glock to the yellow fucker's face? How about a point blank .50 cal shot? Can Onyx be killed with bullets using the same way? How about a Ditto? What happens if I nail a god pokemon to the ground and drop H bombs dead center on them?

Also, 10 year olds fight it out, pokemon vs pokemon but surely the adults are using them for war and military in general. Can a pokemon kill? If so, due to their intelligence, does killing makes them sad like humans or happy, like a dog who is waiting for his treat?

n/a ComedicSans 2017-01-01

You are missing the big one - do school shooters instead use amped-up black market Pokemon?

n/a mygawd 2017-01-01

Spoiler alert: you're a ten year old kid who runs through the dangerous wilderness, training pets to fight each other

n/a lionbaiter 2017-01-01

Seriously plot in a pokemon game? Lol

n/a Cow_Dingaling 2017-01-01

Moo

n/a Ronocm13 2017-01-01

What a terrible way to handle any of that.

n/a DrKingSchultz 2017-01-01

Agreed. Their response was basically "not our fault, if you don't like it-unsub!"

Then we mention how the issue is that it hit /r/all

"I can't control that!"

Literally the only people who could control it. Arguing with their policy gets you banned for "being rude".

n/a carthoris26 2017-01-01

The community decided that after two weeks it was all fair game. They didn't add in exceptions for Christmas or Black Friday or whatever else. Asking or expecting the mods to then change the rules just because it's a popular post is pretty shitty modding.

n/a humanmanguy 2017-01-01

To be fair, these are people who spend their free time "moderating" a website about pokemon. You can't expect someone with a life that empty to have any real problem-solving skills.

n/a dis_is_my_account 2017-01-01

Isn't being a volunteer mod even more of a reason not to give a fuck?

n/a BoogerSlug 2017-01-01

I didn't even realize you could really spoil a Pokemon game

n/a GrabEmByThePalossand 2017-01-01

Bland Pokémon plot points are very serious

n/a Pistachiothenut 2017-01-01

Spolier: Lillie is a neo-nazi

n/a Orsonius 2017-01-01

I mean someone had to do it

n/a atomic_cake 2017-01-01

I thought that was her mom.