How Horror Game Wikis Can Separate Spoiler Warnings from Evidence Labels

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A design discussion on DEV Community proposes a two-field editorial system for horror game wikis, tracking spoiler scope and evidence status independently. The approach suggests categorising spoiler scope into levels such as orientation, puzzle hints, exact solutions, and story reveals, while evidence status would note whether information is observed, sourced, inferred, or unresolved. The proposal argues that revealing more detail should never automatically upgrade a claim's confidence rating, keeping the two concerns clearly distinct. It also recommends structuring puzzle pages into three deliberate stages and applying safe wording across titles, previews, captions, and images to prevent accidental spoilers. Ambiguous search queries, the piece adds, should trigger a short disambiguation step so readers can identify the correct context before any answer is exposed.

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