Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20131204015706/@comment-1713281-20140417043205

ADour wrote: Also, I'm just proposing to follow the same criteria we use for comics. To just not show the appearances until the date in which the film is released comes.

So I get where you're coming from, but I think that a one-size-fits-all approach for this won't be feasible. Digital medias, like films, TV series, video games, whatever, are vastly different in their release cycles than print media, like comics, are. When print medias are released, we get a solicitation blurb a few weeks in advance (at most, usually less) and then the issue is released. Pretty cut and dry.

Digital media, on the other hand, has information released about things like cast and characters anywhere from days to years before it releases. Case in point: X-Men: Apocalypse just announced in the past week the first four confirmed cast members and their respective characters that will appear in the film. And that movie is 2 years away right now.

That being said, I can see where it creates a double standard to users, and that our policies are then not uniform. While I still stand by my point of not restricting the appearances field, I will concede that if the majority wants to hide the appearance, I will support it, if and only if the reveal date is the international date, not the US release date. That is a whole other soapbox I don't feel like building, but the point is that we are an international site, and we've put work into making ourselves less Ameri-centric in the past. The blanking of the Winter Soldier page even after the international release completely undid that.