User blog comment:TDA15/ADMIN POST: PLEASE READ/@comment-26865399-20150915200912/@comment-1527105-20150915201914

We have been less strict in the past. I know a number of users who had changed their avatars to images from episodes that wouldn't air for another 4 days, and they didn't get in any trouble, even though it was just as bad as uploaded the image to the wiki.

If someone wants to post spoilers and then leaves because they're upset about their ban, so be it. The wiki isn't going to crash and burn without them. If anything, it anything, we'd pull in more users. Plenty of people avoid the wiki because of the handful of spoilers here.

It isn't harsh to ban someone when we have numerous NO SPOILERS signs in bolded red all over the wiki. It's their fault for not being considerate to the wiki's rules, or the good majority of people here who don't want to be spoiled.