- DE4THINC4RN4TE
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"I would kill to get a killionaire... 10 times... digitally."
tl;dr at bottom.
It's pretty obvious that leaking can ruin a game (or at least kill some of the joy) before it comes out. Now what I'm about to say next is highly experimental and may drive you insane...
Counter Leaking.
Only mods would be able to do this(in order to avoid a full on spamming of the forums.) Basically, once leaks start to turn up, the mods... go... crazy...er. They start posting "Leaks" and swear by them.If every mod had a different story and swore by it, the rest of us would have no idea what to do.
Besides the obvious hilarity, if we actually came across a real leak, we would have no idea if we could believe it or not (We wouldn't know if the person found out about it from a mod or not.) Another option would be for the mods to just make alts (or use pre-existing ones... Foman.) and post the fake leaks from that account. And no one would know the difference. With enought mods doing this on a semi-regular basis, we could put a serious dent in the leak epidemic.
The rules might have to be altered/ignored a bit (posting leaks, including fake ones, is against the rules) by the mods to pull this off, but it's not like they don't occaisonally do that already (insert drunk bobcast thread here).
Using this method, we won't have to deal with leaks ever again. So, are you insane yet?
Ps. Don't listen to Urk, he ate to many to many of the funny looking shrooms.
tl;dr We overload the forums with enough fake leaks so if a real leak comes around, we won't know if it's fake and the person heard it from a mod or not.
[Edited on 10.25.2012 7:09 AM PDT]