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Postby Ornette » Sun May 24, 2009 10:01 pm

I've added a mod so that we can get general spoiler tags. You'll notice a button up along the bbcode buttons that says "Spoiler"

In general, this works just like the "Quote" tags, you can even append a: ="name" at the end. Here are some examples:

SPOILER: Show
This is a spoiler.

I can embed bbcode too bold,
mini quote


even an image Image


A quoted spoiler looks like this:
Star Wars  SPOILER: Show
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father!
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Postby Ornette » Sun May 24, 2009 10:15 pm

Another thing, just like "Quote" tags the matching of open/close tags won't always work automatically. Broken quoting is really not that serious, since it just makes you look like an idiot for not being able to match the open and close "Quote" tags and makes it so nobody wants to read what you wrote anyways. If you try to quote someone who has a spoiler, and you break the "Spoiler" tag, then the spoiler becomes visible. This is much more serious, so you people who for some reason that not even God knows that can't match open and close BBCode tags break spoiler tags, if you start leaking spoilers because you're not able to use BBCode correctly, some sort of action will have to be taken.

Just be careful.

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Postby ZapX » Sun May 24, 2009 10:17 pm

This is relevant to our interests.
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Postby Joseph the PRPD » Sun May 24, 2009 10:31 pm

What's great?  SPOILER: Show
It's great to see this added to the forums. :)
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Postby Fazmotron » Mon May 25, 2009 7:53 am

SPOILER: Show
Soylent green is people.

SPOILER: Show
The planet of the apes was actually Earth.

SPOILER: Show
Bruce Willis was dead all along.
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Postby UrsusArctos » Mon May 25, 2009 9:25 am

Guys, now that we have enough examples (and spoilers), I suggest you all post in the thread if you have something serious and topic-related in mind.

Pay particular attention to Ornette's second post about broken spoiler tags.
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Postby Fazmotron » Mon May 25, 2009 9:31 am

You should probably tell people to preview their posts to make sure that the spoiler tags that they have used actually work. Then its completely their fault if they screw it up.

I.e. if you can't get the spoiler tag to work properly, don't post your spoiler.

Also, sorry about the test run Ursus, I couldn't help myself.
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Postby UrsusArctos » Mon May 25, 2009 10:09 am

Fazmotron wrote:You should probably tell people to preview their posts to make sure that the spoiler tags that they have used actually work. Then its completely their fault if they screw it up.


Ah, the "preview" button. Right to the left of submit, and often left unused. Yes, it would certainly do good if people cared to preview and see if their tags were closed.

Also, sorry about the test run Ursus, I couldn't help myself.


A couple of guys testing it out is one thing, but having a whole bunch of people testing it out would turn this into a spam thread. Just to clarify, the reminder wasn't directed to you or anyone else in particular, it was for the whole forum.
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Postby ZapX » Mon May 25, 2009 10:37 am

Further, don't use spoiler tags unless they include actual spoilers about a show/book/game/whatever as I've noticed some people doing. You aren't being cute or funny.
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Postby Axell » Mon May 25, 2009 11:14 am

I was wondering why we didnt have spoiler tags here

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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Mon May 25, 2009 12:00 pm

A reminder for people to NOT use spoiler tags UNLESS it's an actual spoiler. I've already noticed people abusing the new system.
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Postby ZapX » Mon May 25, 2009 12:55 pm

Uh...
ZapX wrote:Further, don't use spoiler tags unless they include actual spoilers about a show/book/game/whatever as I've noticed some people doing. You aren't being cute or funny.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Mon May 25, 2009 1:08 pm

Zap: I know, it's just people were STILL doing that anyway. Reinforcement can do wonders.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Mon May 25, 2009 1:21 pm

Sorry for the double post, but I noticed (since the spoiler tag has been added??) the font color and font size tags don't work. Selecting them and or highlighting does nothing.

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Postby Ornette » Mon May 25, 2009 4:03 pm

Fixed, there was a bug in the mod that didn't map the correct bbcode indexes correctly in the posting.php section.

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Postby BrikHaus » Tue May 26, 2009 10:37 am

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Postby Axell » Tue May 26, 2009 1:29 pm

is there any way for spoilers to be automatically opened? I dont care if i'm spoiled with anything

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Postby Ornette » Tue May 26, 2009 6:00 pm

There isn't.

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Postby chazthesilencer » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:50 am

Image
So, three years later*, and the spoiler tag is essentially the hide images/ walls of text/ anything but spoilers feature of our forum now.
Yes, I've been guilty of this too.

Isn’t it about time the spoiler tag be renamed the hide tag or something?
Or would it be just as fruitful to add an identical feature specifically for hiding images/walls of text?

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This is an issue of clarity, not functionality.

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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:28 am

View Original Postchazthesilencer wrote:So, three years later*, and the spoiler tag is essentially the hide images/ walls of text/ anything but spoilers feature of our forum now.


It's going to be utilized for spoilers come this time next month (for 3.0). I guess if it'd be worth a rename or not, Ornette will give his 2 cents.

The spoiler tag was originally added around the time of 2.0's debut in Japan anyway.
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