My quick take on this:
The Blind Horseman's original warning months back was definitely a little heavy-handed. I won't say it was straight-up wrong, but a caution might have done there. People can spoil without meaning to or by forgetting to put in some sort of tag or spoiler warning. Intent matters a bit here.
I am fully in favour of the topic creator in this thread getting a warning, and the reason is simple.
This user posted a title that is in and of itself a huge spoiler. There's really no way to prepare yourself for this, and I suspect that the user knew it. This user then made a short post, again with no spoiler info, explaining further large details about that series. Double whammy. If he had just made that post in one of the many fantasy topics, maybe he gets a caution to be careful since that spoiler was pretty damn huge, but the fact that he made a topic with a spoiler-tastic title, plus the post itself, plus no action on his part to update either one after people called him out, is grounds for a warning.
It's not explicitly set out in the protocol, but if you want us to make a seven-and-a-half-page document with all possible clauses, please do continue the argument, Exodus. I agree completely that moderation should be as consistent as possible, so I'm with Jack and many others on that score. But I don't really think it's reasonable to cover for every possible and potential action a user can take. i.e., I think you know by now that while we have more rules and more case law to play with than, say, five years ago, we also do bear intent into account quite a bit when people break the rules.
Once again, it's lose-lose for us. We don't have enough clarity, and you howl for more. We give you more, then you get upset when something is missed and suggest that there's maybe too many rules and too much meddling. Sorry, but you can't possibly have it both ways. We'll continue to try to be transparent and to stay accountable, and we intend to impose punishments with as neutral a perspective as we can, but if you're really only here to spit snark when we do something that is not 100% consistent, then I daresay you may be a bigger part of the problem than the solution.
Check out my Manamon text walkthrough at the following link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8ls3rc3f4mkb … n.txt?dl=1