LogFAQs > #934806712

There is no consistency. Some seasons get 100% spoiled (full bootlist, major events, sometimes even vote counts), others go completely unspoiled, and everything in between. Seasons with returning players tend to lean towards 100% spoiled, as you might expect. More recently, newbie seasons have been completely unspoiled with maybe one or two minor leaks per season. Ghost Island was the exception to that, which was spoiled top-to-bottom (except that they got the winner wrong).

CBS is actually really strict about it - the contract states that any contestant who violates their NDA may be sued for up to $5 million. As far as I know, the only contestant who has ever actually been reprimanded for spoilers was Alec from DvG, who was banned from the reunion an had his $10,000 appearance stipulation revoked (but not his placement-based consolation prize), but he is far from the only one who has leaked stuff. He was just the most public and brazen about it, even though what he posted paled in comparison to the full bootlists others have leaked.

I remember back in the early days, contestants were forbidden from communicating with each other until their season was finished airing and had super strict gag orders on any sort of press or anything like that, but with the advent of social media I guess at some point they realized that was a long lost cause.

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darkx