There should be a rule about posting stuff from leaked episodes.

Under normal circumstances I don’t have to filter out spoilers, because when an episode comes out, I naturally watch it before ever doing anything else, including coming here to Derpibooru.
 
Now, on the day something big releases, yeah, people are going to talk about it. That’s fine. If you go on social media after something big aired before you actually saw it, it’s your fault you got spoiled.
 
But then there’s cases like the season finale where the episode hasn’t actually come out yet. I of course didn’t know about the leak until I had the finale completely ruined for myself. I came on like normal yesterday to browse through like I usually do and was bombarded by spoilers posted by people with no consideration for others.
 
I decided tonight that I might as well watch the leak before more gets ruined. While the episode did still have surprises that weren’t completely ravaged, the biggest reveals that would have had me exploding in excitement the most just ended up not having nearly as much spark if I’d been able to go into it blind.
 

 
 
There needs to be some ground rules on this site when it comes to posting leaked content. Perhaps a leaked episode tag that could be removed from said images when the episode officially airs.

It wasn’t a leak.

@Zharkaer  
To Where and Back Again was set to air Oct. 22. A Saturday, just like every episode. Last week we got Top Bolt, so it’s not even like there was a week or two of hiatus. There was a screw up. The episode was not supposed to be out yet at all.

@Cloppy_Hooves  
I understand your frustration when it comes to spoilers, but we already have a system in place you can use to avoid them. As a general rule of thumb, if you care about spoilers you should filter the spoiler tags, to avoid that type of thing. You’ll have previews, sneak peaks and other type of spoilers you’ll want to avoid as well.
 
The episodes were aired in the UK early, on an official network, and all the screenshots were tagged with the corresponding spoiler tags. I’m sorry you had the finale ruined for you, I really encourage you to add spoiler tags to your filters to avoid this in the future.

It wasn’t exactly a leak. It was aired officially in the UK before the US and out-of-order. It was a dumb move on whoever’s part, but not a leak.
 
I do agree that it sucks to get a big episode spoiled because some other country saw it first, but I don’t know if punishing others for seeing the episode early in a legal manner is the right thing to do. Furthermore, it’s very hard to stop new content from being posted when a real leak does happen.
 
The best thing you can do is to filter the spoiler tags, specifically spoilers for episode 25 and 26. We could even have a generic “Spoiler” tag for tagging all spoilers just in case a leak happens and stuff gets posted without warning (if that tag doesn’t exist already). Otherwise, it’s hard to prevent content from a leak or early release from being posted and may even be unfair.
 
It’s not your fault or the fault of those that saw the episode early for this.

Again though, like I stated in my very first sentence, this normally isn’t an issue because things like this don’t typically happen. The current spoiler system isn’t enough, because things that were already aired often retain those spoiler tags.
 
Just as example, there’s lots of images from Crusaders of the Lost Mark that are marked as spoilers still, despite being last season. Some spoiler tags go away after a while, while some stick around.
 
I think having to wait a couple extra days longer before we start flooding the site with screencaps is a lot more fair than making people remove each and every episode they watch from the spoiler list when they’re done with them. Legally or not, it’s pretty uncool.

@ArmadilloEater  
I’mma note that while the system is of course extremely helpful, it does little for people talking about spoilers in various, not always related image/forum threads.

@Cloppy_Hooves  
I think it’s more uncool to stop all people from posting new episode related stuff for days than some needing to regulary edit their filters. The UK airings were all over the place (like EQD). Why should we just stop people from discussing new episodes on derpibooru because some people don’t watch it immediately ?  
I think the filter system is doing a good job there for the ones who don’t want to see that.  
Still, I’m sorry it was ruined for you. I stay away from any possible spoilers too.
 
@Solitude
 
Isn’t that forbidden by some rule ?

@Lead Pie  
Oh, and it would basically destroy the “that was fast” tag.

@Solitude  
Aye, this time I asked people to spoiler anything pertaining to the “leaked” episodes in the tagging threads, but there is no “hard rule” on the forums when it comes to spoilers. It’s really hard to avoid all spoilers when you are active after all, the best we can do is ask for people to be thoughtful about others.

@ArmadilloEater  
Of course. I just wanted to make note of it, is all.
 
@Lead Pie  
Not entirely. Image uploads and such, yes, but nothing says people have to spoiler comments when talking about episodes. Though fortunately most are considerate enough to do so.

@Cloppy_Hooves
 

 
I’m sorry but how is that even effort?  
I need a whole two clicks for that.  
One for going to a spoilered image. ANY spoilered image.  
And the second one to unspoiler the tag.  
 
It takes literally seconds to remove tags from your filter.
 
It sucks that your expirience got spoiled like this. But as harsh as it is, this is only on you.  
We provided the tools to prevent that. But if you don’t use them…
 
And just by the way.  
I haven’t watched any episode since S06E05.  
I’m browsing Derpibooru almost every day.  
I just learned yesterday that Trixie met Starlight Glimmer in S06E06.  
That’s how good the spoiler tags work.

@patec  
There are a few things here though that still make this an inconvenience. For example, let’s take the most recent Sunset Shimmer animation by Spectre-Z. It has a Legends of Everfree spoiler on it even though looking at the image, I fail to see what makes it a spoiler. Yeah, the image clearly takes place at the camp, but what exactly is being spoiled in this image? But, if you hadn’t seen the movie, you aren’t going to see the thumbnail. Do you risk clicking the image and going in blind to a spoiler, or do you ignore it? Well, turns out opening it would have been the right answer, because there’s nothing about the image that spoils anything.
 
And now I’m being told that it’s my fault I didn’t add filters for an episode that wasn’t even supposed to be out yet. And call me a heretic for saying this, but to be quite honest, I think screencaps are a waste of space. Screencapping certain moments as reaction images is one thing, but people on here screencap literally everything. There are some episodes you could probably completely piece together just by using gifs from this site. But I won’t get too into that.
 
If you got to see an episode early because some executives in your country decided to do something completely stupid, well that’s fine and dandy for you, but I don’t think anyone’s face is going to melt off if you have to wait an extra day or 2 for the episode to get a proper release before flooding the site with gifs of every camera single angle.
 
In the very least, as I before suggested, there needs to be a special type of spoiler tag for early spoilers, because for people like me, normal spoilers are not an issue under normal circumstances, which just makes spoiler filters an inconvenience, no matter how small, when we have to turn them on just to avoid the occasional leak, or in this case, other countries getting it early. This honestly would be a great solution in my opinion that wouldn’t even be difficult to implement. “Early Spoiler” There we go, new tag right there. That sounds a lot more reasonable than forcing people to use flawed systems to protect themselves from such unique situations.

The problem with an “early spoiler” tag is that it is time based. Once an episode is out, it would no longer be an “early” spoiler, so that tag wouldn’t exactly be applicable.
 
Also, I would like to point out that all of the site’s default filters that hide spoilers are updated as soon as spoilers start appearing.
 
Finally, once a new episode is released, we always put a site notice at the top of the page reminding everyone about tagging spoilers.

The functionality you are asking for (hiding episode spoilers, no matter when they were released) already exists, and has been explained in great detail above. Use it.

I know it’s locked.. but I wann say one last thing.
 
@Cloppy_Hooves  

 
And what would that accomplish?  
The system would only be more complicated and require more work. People would forget to add it. People would forget to remove it. And who would have to deal with the mess then? We mods.  
And all that to immitate a functionality that already exists.
 
If you add all episode spoiler tags to your filter before the season even starts you don’t have to give a shit anymore when what and how much gets leaked.  
Heck, you can do that RIGHT NOW.  
Season 7 is confirmed, right? Why not prepare already?  
Here, let me help you.  
Copy paste this into your filter:
 
spoiler:s07e01, spoiler:s07e02, spoiler:s07e03, spoiler:s07e04, spoiler:s07e05, spoiler:s07e06, spoiler:s07e07, spoiler:s07e08, spoiler:s07e09, spoiler:s07e10, spoiler:s07e11, spoiler:s07e12, spoiler:s07e14, spoiler:s07e15, spoiler:s07e16, spoiler:s07e17, spoiler:s07e18, spoiler:s07e19, spoiler:s07e20, spoiler:s07e21, spoiler:s07e22, spoiler:s07e23, spoiler:s07e24, spoiler:s07e25, spoiler:s07e26
 
And viola, you’re all set for Season 7.
 

 
What do you even want? more spoiler tags or less spoiler tags?  
It’s very simple. If it has any spoiler of the movie, no matter how small (and that shirt Sunset wears is one) it’s a spoiler.  
Better safe than sorry.
 
There’s only two groups of people anyway:  
The ones who care about the movie and don’t wanna be spoiled. They will remove the tag eventually from their filters and don’t have to care about it being there anymore.  
And the ones who don’t care about the movie. They don’t have to care about that tag in the first place.
 
Sorry, I don’t see any problem with the current system.