Well, I hope that I didn't contribute too much to the spoiler problem and certainly wasn't intending to (I have only just caught up with the recent discussion here, and am now a little worried). I was pretty conscientious about making sure to avoid this (responding with general concerns for the situation and de-emphasizing anything that I was aware of from other threads as being relevant and throwing in plenty of irrelevancies so that they have to decide for themselves what is relevant. Making things as general and non-specific as possible. Mainly I was interested in throwing out as many crazy/oddball/imaginative ideas as possible) but you never know how much you are giving away on an unconscious level (as we are often seeing in the diplomacy...).
Sorry if it went too far, and let me know if it did!
It's pretty easy to avoid giving anything away regarding tactics or map knowledge, since here it is pretty obvious what is spoilerish. But I think that the hardest thing is not to unconsciously give away your knowledge of diplomacy (in particular the diplomatic trust levels). Easiest way for people to avoid spoilers is to comment at the times when they are not very up to date with the other threads...
Sorry if it went too far, and let me know if it did!
It's pretty easy to avoid giving anything away regarding tactics or map knowledge, since here it is pretty obvious what is spoilerish. But I think that the hardest thing is not to unconsciously give away your knowledge of diplomacy (in particular the diplomatic trust levels). Easiest way for people to avoid spoilers is to comment at the times when they are not very up to date with the other threads...