Posting Spoilers in Comments

At the request of @dystopianfuturetoday, who has recently been posting some interesting riddles in his blog, we've added support for concealing spoilers in your comments.

Simply surround your spoiler text with the tags <spoiler> and </spoiler> and it will be invisible when your comment is displayed. It can be made visible either by selecting all the text on the page (e.g., CTRL+A) or by click-dragging using your mouse over the hidden text.

Give it a shot!
speechless says...

This is a nice addition, but instead of having a blank/empty comment box, is there a way to make it so that it notifies the reader that a comment is being hidden due to it being a spoiler (maybe using the way you display that a comment is hidden because a user is ignored)?

[show the body of this spoiler comment]

RFlagg says...

Just testing to see if you can quote a spoiler and still have it display properly...

>> ^lurgee:

[spoiler]<span class="spoiler">there is no dark side in the moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark</span>[/spoiler]

RFlagg says...

@luck760, how about a Spoilers tag for videos as well? Would go along with NSFW, Blocked, Short, Long and the like. Would help avoid watching a video that might spoil something without having to make a note in the description or later in a comment (I haven't been spoiled recently, but have been in the past, and the comment on this video http://videosift.com/video/Breaking-Bad-Creator-Vince-Gilligan-Reveals-his-Next-Project reminded me about the Spoiler flag idea). Video could be flagged Spoiler during creation, and at certain power levels could be flagged in the comments (*spoiler) and perhaps a slightly higher level flagged off (*notspoiler).

I came here looking for Spoiler in the talk to see if it had been suggested, saw this thread. The thread solution is a nice quick one, would perhaps be better if eventually it blocked it off in a comment box that you then could "click to reveal spoiler" that would then expand the box or show what is in it... but that certainly a if time allows sort of thing just to make it cooler.

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