User1: I'm in need of help with an issue related to -offtopic
User2: Sure.
User2: User1 How can I help?
User1: A user was misbehaving yesterday and they should probably have a ban applied
User2: Who?
User1: Me
User2: I'm not sure I really understand.
User1: I posted a spoiler for a movie yesterday after being explicitly told not to do so.
User1: The reactions of certain people made it very clear that my type of spoiler, though I meant it as an innocuous joke, wasn't welcome.
User1: So?
 * rww looks
User3: You are hereby banned from all movie theaters, DVD rental stores, and streaming services until 2020.
User4: unless you're talking about Han shooting first in Ep IV, I'm not seeing it
User1: Approximately 16:44 EST
User4: @time EST
User5: Current time in EST: December 29 2015, 23:44:34
User4: o.O
User4: < gav>  Snape kills dumbledore
User4: ?
User1: Yes
User4: assuming so, that movie's old enough that it doesn't really qualify as a spoiler
User4: plus I'm fairly sure the topic doesn't say Harry Potter spoilers
User4: plus ikonia said the same time you parted (I assume race condition) that you weren't getting banned
User1: It doesn't specify a film, and at least two people expressed displeasure with my conduct
User4: ah, true, I thought it did. 1 and 3 still apply
User4: and displeasure != ban
User4: I get displeased about a lot of things that aren't banned, and ops tend to sometimes /express/ displeasure as a "don't do that again" type hint. which again, is not a ban
User4: You are of course free to exile yourself, but spoilers for a 10 year old story are not against #ubuntu-offtopic guidelines and you won't be getting banned for it.
User1: With all due respect, spoilers for the obvious film implied in the topic aren't explicitly against guidelines (unless there is another copy of the guidelines I haven't seen) and two other users received indefinite bans for that
User4: 1) there are less than a handful of "indefinite bans" in the core channels
User4: 2) other people's bans are other people's problem
User4: 3) the one I banned did so specifically after being told not to do what he did
User1: So did I
User1: (Wrt to point 3)
User4: You are not getting banned for saying "Snape kills Dumbledore", that would be stupid. If you disagree, feel free to not join #ubuntu-offtopic for a length of time you consider appropriate.
User4: Is there anything else we can help you with today?
User1: Sure, I'd like to appeal that to another op?
User4: Well, I mean, don't all rush yedwards@example.com.
User3: We could op you and let you ban yourself if you want.
User1: I'm not in the channel, so that's not likely to work
User4: there we go. tonyyarusso, have fun, log timestamp is 2015-12-28 21:39 UTC
User3: Does it qualify as a spoiler if it's so well-known it's become more of a spoiler meme than a real spoiler?
User1: I think what matters more is how it was received
User1: In this case, the answer is clearly badly
User1: Just bumping this to prevent it being lost.
User2: User1 No one is going to take action. This issue has been dealt with. Stop please.
User1: I don't understand why I'm being given some kind of preferential treatment here
User4: You're not, and there's your second op opinion. Anything else we can help you with tonight?
User2: You're not. The fact of the matter is you spoilt a movie released X years ago, not Y weeks ago. There is a massive different.
User1: One person spoils a movie, they get banned. Another does too, and is also banned. I do it, and there's no action
User4: You spoiled a book from 10 years ago. They spoiled a movie from a couple of weeks ago.
User1: I'm sure there are plenty of people in there who haven't seen it
User1: Or read it
User4: I don't care, it's 10 years ago. You've gotten two op opinions now, they're not going to change by us going in circles.
User2: Statistically, you could say it is likely those who cared about Harry Potter would have seen it already. You can't make the same claim about Star Wars.
User2: There is no argument here, please stop trying to beat the dead horse.
User6: poor horsie
User6: so dead
User7: dont spoil it!!!
User7: trollng is the new roadmap
User8: hello azizLIGHT
User9: Hello, last night at 23:59 EST a user from #ubuntu named rw2014 spam pm'd me and possibly other users
User9: Spam pm was about proselytizing Islam
User9: Hello ikonia
User9: Did anyone else receive this spam?
User8: nope,
User8: but the user has gone
User10: there were some spam bots removed last night
User8: so I wouldn't worry about it
User9: Hm OK
User10: but thanks for the report
User9: Yeah :)
User9: See you in #ubuntu
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User12: \o/
User13: fans!
User10: a windows user having root as ident to troll #debian asks in #ubuntu why he cant troll there
User14: It takes allsorts
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