[NO SPOILER, LEAK-FREE] Season 8 Discussion and Speculation: Discovery Family airings

Background Pony #CE28
Well, here we go again
Yep. And by that I assume you mean the split between the people who watch early and those who choose not to.
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We Need To Warn Everyone At The MLP Wiki NOT To Create Pages Based Off The Leaks?  
Like Season Rumors Can Stay, Just Not A Page About The Episodes And New Information On The Characters
Background Pony #CE28
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Nah, the people at MLP Wiki wouldn’t do that… would they?
I can honestly say I don’t know… nor do I feel really inclined to look, on the off chance they already have.
 
I would kind of hope not. Given that this wasn’t an early or accidental release, but deliberate theft, I’d err on the side of caution if it was me.
Background Pony #CE28
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As I said, I don’t think so. Since this is theft like you said, the wiki staff wouldn’t edit that into the site. Besides, I get my episode info from TV Tropes.
Well, here’s hoping they keep things quiet there. Although to be honest, I usually don’t look up future episodes myself. At most I’ll read the two or three sentence synopsis that comes out with the announcement, because I like the mystery.
 
I will admit I hope the start of the new season isn’t too far away anymore. As much as I’m willing to put the effort into avoiding spoilers, the longer I have to wait the more likely it is I’ll see something too big to ignore.
Background Pony #CE28
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If they do it on the Easter weekend again it’ll be the last day of March, so about 3 and half months.
Well… it’ll be a bit grueling, but I think it’s doable. If nothing else, it will set a new personal record for length of time I’ve waited on an episode.
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It’ll be a bit much but I think I’ll wait this time. If it was a case of something like Treehouse releasing them early then I would watch them but I don’t watch shit leaks where there’s something wrong with them (foreign dub, no sound etc.).
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I think it’s still too early to tell. TV Topes hasn’t updated anything on their Season 8 recap page, which means that a season premiere is still months away.
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Well, here’s hoping they keep things quiet there.
 
To my knowledge, they are. I edit fairly regularly there, and the usual unspoken policy with these things is to comment out edits based on leaked or otherwise spoilerrific info – basically, you write the example or description same as normal and then put two percent signs at the beginning of the line so that the page seems unchanged and the edit doesn’t actually show in any way until after the official release, at which point someone goes back and removes the percents.
 
From the point of view of someone just reading a page, it ends up looking like the page pertaining to the spoilered info remains completely untouched until the official release date rolls around, at which point a fully formed page sort of poofs into existence. It’s what’s been done for previous leaks, it’s what’s being done now. Although the only edits I saw before I realized I should stop checking edit histories pertained to the S8 opening.
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@Background Pony #1D79
It’ll be a bit much but I think I’ll wait this time. If it was a case of something like Treehouse releasing them early then I would watch them but I don’t watch shit leaks where there’s something wrong with them (foreign dub, no sound etc.).
I commend you for at least wanting to make the effort. And yes, of the many reasons not to watch these leaks, the fact that this wasn’t them slipping out a bit early or airing internationally is a good one. This was out and out theft, and I won’t be a party to encouraging more.
 
Plus, who wants their first viewing of something to be the unfinished work copy? I could maybe see watching the unfinished ones after the episodes have aired, for those people curious about the process of turning storyboards and sketches into what we get to see, but the first time through should be the completed episode. The crew that works on these put in so much effort, the least we can do is support the version they’ve worked so hard on.
 
 
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That’s actually pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing that bit of information.
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Lot of good it will do them at this point, but yes, at least they are aware.
 
I honestly feel for all the staff. I’m pretty much a nobody in this fandom, and I was livid when I found out. I can’t even imagine how angry and hurt they must feel over all of this.
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The level of access the perpetrator had (and possibly still has) suggests they could’ve deleted everything and sent them back to square one were it not for the fact they’re most likely a fan of the show. If the level of security on their network is any indication, the possibility of them also not having backups is disturbingly real.
 
Not only that, but there’s been increasingly severe leaks until now, from the finished end of S7 to the entire movie and now full access to one or even more of their now-compromised servers. The very best case scenario is that we’re talking about an experienced hacker that entered once, created a backdoor they could go through despite the hole having been plugged and used it to pull off two more data leaks, worst case would be that they just didn’t bother with network security at all. Truth is likely in-between both scenarios, but still remains a case of EXTREME incompetence.
 
Instead of going on Twitter to try and “reassure” the staff with bullshit like “Well, I didn’t watch them…”, fans should be pissed at DHX for how careless they’ve been. This could’ve been a black hat hacker, and they could’ve lost EVERYTHING.
Background Pony #CE28
Instead of going on Twitter to try and “reassure” the staff with bullshit like “Well, I didn’t watch them…”, fans should be pissed at DHX for how careless they’ve been. This could’ve been a black hat hacker, and they could’ve lost EVERYTHING.
You honestly expect me to be mad at DHX for this? Because I’ll tell you right now, I’m not. And I’m especially not going to consider the person who did this a fan based on them not deleting the material they stole and posted online illegally. Even if I did buy into the delusion that this was supposed to be some benevolent demonstration, there has to be a thousand better ways they could have gone about it that didn’t involve ruining the hype of a new season and all the hard work that has gone into it so far.
 
I mean, great, they didn’t wipe out months of work. Am I supposed to give them a medal for not being as bad as they could have been? Because I kind of think that not being as terrible as we have the potential to be is essentially the minimum level for a basic human decency, not the gold standard of heroics.
 
And don’t get me wrong, I hope this does prompt some security changes. Clearly they need them. But that’s for DHX and Hasbro to decide, and if I in the meantime want to throw some kind words to the creators of one of my favorite shows rather than call out the company for not anticipating what some jerk with too much free time would do, I’m going to do that.
Background Pony #CE28
This is what always makes me a bit depressed about the non-spoiler thread. It always feels like there are too few people who care about waiting to make it as lively as the other thread tends to be.
 
still, I’m going to make an effort. So, for anyone who cares to answer, here’s the question of the week. What is your preferred method of avoiding spoilers? Are you the kind who avoids anyplace they might be? Are you ok with some so long as they meet some personal criteria? Inquiring minds want to know.
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@Background Pony #1D79
 
I stick to sites where I know I can avoid these things – here, Fimfiction, Tv Tropes – and I police my tumblr searches to make sure I don’t stumble across these things by accident, which is usually how I get spoiled.
 
The main issue on my end is that in the weeks or months between a leak and the actual release, my curiosity inevitably ends up getting the better of me and I spoil myself on some detail or another :/
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I stick to sites where I know I can avoid these things – here, Fimfiction, Tv Tropes – and I police my tumblr searches to make sure I don’t stumble across these things by accident, which is usually how I get spoiled.
I actually don’t do so badly off this site. I’ve never cared for social media in any capacity, and since I don’t have accounts with Facebook, twitter, tumblr, or any of those sorts of things, I pretty much never have to worry about them spoiling me. In a bit of irony, this site is where I actually have the most concern. I usually run with everything visible because… reasons, but as a nameless, account-less background user I don’t have the option for complicated filter that takes out only the new season stuff. So as you might expect, every so often, I go to the main page and see something I didn’t want to see.
 
Actually, why isn’t there a universal filter for just removing leaked content? That seems like something people who don’t like to make accounts (like myself) could potentially be interested in.
 
Anyway, since this site is about 90% of the socializing I do in a normal day, not coming here isn’t a great option, so I do my best to avoid the leak tag and just bide my time.
 
 
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@Background Pony #1D79
I just end up reading stuff I don’t mean to and then bitch about it to other staff. [aside glance emoticon i cannot be bothered to google search to copypaste]
I hate unintentional spoilers. I can’t tell you how annoyed I’ve been at times when YouTube decides I must be interested in some spoiler laden video and throws that up as a “recommended” option. And how is it that the thumbnail is always the exact scene that reveals the most? It’s uncanny I tell you.
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