Indeed, the spoilers have gone viral.
I said we'd look into the issue and feel I've learned as much as I can. But first, to be clear, it was never my intent to investigate the veracity of the spoilers and I never attempted to prove or disprove them. My concern was that a claim made by neiljohnson (that he copied the spoilers verbatim from a soap board) had created tensions here and based on my experience on this board in all its incarnations, the situation seemed close to becoming a flame war; therefore, I hoped to be able to verify (only) that the spoilers were copied from an online public board. I didn't even plan to cite the url in this thread, but just wanted to help ease the tensions; MB and I have steadfastly maintained that we do not police outside links.
There IS a post, submitted anonymously on a soap board, that predates this thread by 4 - 5 days, but the IP in the post is displayed and is identical to neiljohnson's. Since I lack any evidence to show that he copied the spoilers from another site, unfortunately I'm unable to believe the claim. But for sure I didn't think for a second that he's a troll or fabricated the spoilers, and I'm aware of his numerous contributions to other posting boards. I feel only he can say for sure where he got them, and he was given every opportunity to show that he had been truthful and was informed that his account could otherwise be compromised (as a condition of registration, posters are required to agree to the Forum Guidelines, and therefore agree to not post information that is false or inaccurate), but it was his decision to not cooperate with the site administrators. A warning was issued, but it was not because of any anti-spoiler sentiment. The spoilers are not going to be removed and spoilers posted down the line won't be discouraged.
Regarding the tensions created by those past and future spoilers, I understand that many of us are emotionally invested in the DS movie, but please, that's no reason to let those emotions get the best of us.