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Have you ever had an anime ruined for you because of over-zealous fans?

The suggestion "stay out of threads that may contain spoilers" is incorrect. It goes against the nature of dedicated title discussion threads, and it goes against the nature of anime discussion communities. It is such poor advice because it fails to take into account common sources of spoilers.

Dessa wrote:

I'm interested in seeing it. Why haven't I? Because it's not legally available to watch in the US. As soon as it goes up on a streaming site, I'll be able to watch it. So yes, there is a real reason for someone interested in it to not have seen it.

Then how would you be spoiled unless you went into talkback threads about the series or related subjects about that series? Short of just talking about your new car you bought and someone coming in to spoil it, it seems a bit easy to avoid. In that case, yeah, it sucks, but nothing you can really do about it and it happens in every fandom. The huge Harry Potter leak meme a few years back is just one major example.

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And honestly, I don't believe in a "statute" of spoiler territory. Yes, there are places which will have spoilers (discussion threads, etc) that should be avoided, but there's also common courtesy. Just the other night, I was in a chat room for a game I'm in, and I mentioned where I was at in G Gundam. Someone proceeded to try to discuss things that happen later, and I said to stop, because I'm not there yet, and I haven't seen the series before. When they tried to argue, the rest of the chat jumped on them. There's no "statute" when someone flat-out says they haven't seen something and don't want spoilers. It's all about respect.

That's a bit unreasonable to me.. I think at this point if you don't know who Darth Vader's true identity is then if they haven't seen any Star Wars up to now, chances are the don't care about Star Wars enough to care. Same with what Sasuke does at the end of part 1 of Naruto. That's such a big part of Naruto that going into any Naruto thread to discuss the series it's pretty much an unwritten given you at least know that. A few episodes/chapter grace period is what I usually give in talk-back threads.

Sure, as mentioned, new fans and people are born all the time so it's new to them, but there's also the idea of pop culture. Everyone makes jokes and parodies of Darth Vader and the like. Even if you don't watch Star Wars you probably know from parodies done in other shows.

That, and chances are new fans going back to watch older stuff isn't as likely. I see anime as such a current medium. We get like 100 shows a year, plus OVAs and movies. In this day and age, Madoka is kind of old. I suppose people waiting for R1 released haven't seen it, but to be brutally honest, those people are in the minority, and it's a bit of a danger when it comes to doing that. Funi is just now releasing B Gata H Kei, which is two years old at this point, and people who've seen it have said what they wanted and moved on. R1 viewers might see it for the first time, but at the same time, R1 releases of short 13 episode shows come out all at once.. so it's not like each week a new event happens. It's a bit tricky, I suppose. Maybe a new talkback thread for R1 releases is in order, but until you see it, going into a thread about Madoka or whatever seems like a no-brainer.

For the record, I was spoiled on it, because a friend of mine told me in person how it ended, while we were discussing an unrelated series.

2) It's never okay for manga readers to talk about upcoming events in an anime series. This is a common problem in threads about popular adaptations. One well-known site that cannot be named here maintains parallel anime and manga threads for precisely this reason. Even then it's hard to keep the manga readers in line.

What's the point of watching the show when nothing is new?