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Post by StruckingFuggle » Wed May 05, 2004 4:07 am

I did a search for "spoiler'', and there wasn't anything in this folder, so I guess it hasn't been brought up.

I've seen 'em somewhere, though. I think, especially with the media and game forums, we need somesort of spoiler tags in BB code that changes the color the text inside it to the background color, so you have to highlight it to read the spoiler part of the post.
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Post by Prospero » Wed May 05, 2004 4:26 am

Yeah. Our threads need to be more aerodynamic. We need spoiler codes.
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Post by Felan » Wed May 05, 2004 12:40 pm

writing in really really small font seems to be just as good as anti spoilers
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Wed May 05, 2004 7:33 pm

That's a decent point, Zenny, and it's actually easier to do from a posting standpoint, but it's a pain in the ass to enlarge it to read. Granted, it's easy, but far more distracting than highlighting the text.
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Post by Prospero » Wed May 05, 2004 8:12 pm

I should smack the both of you.
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Post by amlthrawn » Wed May 05, 2004 8:20 pm

I keep notepad open & copy/paste posts there. Not too inconvenient.

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Post by ChronoSword » Wed May 05, 2004 9:15 pm

just hit the quote button and read what is said, then you can go back.
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Post by dmpotter » Wed May 05, 2004 9:59 pm

Sounds like a good idea, but what about those posts that are all BBCode or something? Edit: this would have been amusing if phpBB ever fixed the bug where entities aren't escaped when quoted or edited.
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Re: Spoilers tags

Post by confusedcious » Thu May 06, 2004 6:59 am

Let's have a how small can you make your font competition ^^
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Re: Spoilers tags

Post by Salvation122 » Thu May 06, 2004 3:25 pm

TINY TEXT BAD.
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Post by dmpotter » Fri May 07, 2004 12:51 am

Oversized text can be bad too, especially if the poster just goes on and on and on in it and takes up way too much vertical space. Tiny text can be a very good thing. Unless you actually cared what the person said.
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Post by billf » Fri May 07, 2004 12:57 am

Spoiler tags were originally supposed to be one of the hacks installed on this forum, but something went loopy and they either messed something up, or were just too difficult to implement with all the other hacks we have on here.

That's why we don't have them.
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Post by Martin Blank » Fri May 07, 2004 3:25 am

They're a bit more difficult to implement. We don't have the normal BBCode implementation here.
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Fri May 07, 2004 4:26 am

Alrighty then, thanks for the explanation. :)
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