I'm trying to avoid the spoilers for fallout 4 from the leaks and people that already have the game.

This is why people put "Spoilers" in the topic title. It's a warning.

and use SPOILER tags.

The spoilers here aren't related to the story. It just gameplay info like how settlements work which is fine imo.

At this stage, this close to the release of the game, it's pretty normal for a forum to be talking a lot about spoilers. People have been hungry for any information - they've spent the past months poring over pre-release tidbits and guessing at what things are going to be. All these leaks aren't great, as a moderator, but it's also just how things work unfortunately.

So long as people are properly using spoiler tags in the title (and obviously, not putting the spoiler itself in the thread title,) that's about as good as it's going to get.

At some point around release the Fallout 4 section will get it's own sub-forums for spoilers and tech issues and stuff (like the other games on here.) This may or may not take place over at the upcoming new forum (we're not sure on the time table for that.) And things will be easier to deal with, then.

But for now, people are going to be talking a lot about spoilers. I'd recommend not clicking on any topics will "Spoiler" in the title, and reporting anything we may end up missing.