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
Give it a shot!
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!
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[spoiler]Is this the most obscure new feature evar or wot![/spoiler]
NICE! *quality addition!
Awarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by eric3579.
YAY!
[spoiler]I'm a sniper.[/spoiler]
Umm... ^ no workie for me.
Let me try this again. [spoiler]Hi![/spoiler]
Hmm... something is not working. I'm using Chrome 20 if that helps.
[spoiler] I went to Costco today [/spoiler]
[spoiler] test [/spoiler]
[spoiler]test123[/spoiler]
"Marge, someone broke the toilet!"
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]
Sorry for the initial bugginess. It's now in working order and it's now displaying a [spoiler]wtf[/spoiler] so it's presence is obvious.
[spoiler]neat[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I like turtles[/spoiler]
I'm not seeing anything inside the [spoiler] tag. Using Chrome.
@lucky760? did i break something again?
http://i.imgur.com/OM0Np.png
http://i.imgur.com/m2Wpo.png
>> ^berticus:
@lucky760? did i break something again?
http://i.imgur.com/OM0Np.png
http://i.imgur.com/m2Wpo.png
What version of Chrome are you running? I'm using Chrome 20 and can see the text when I select over the area.
chrome's up to date. the text is there, because if i copy paste into something else i can see it. maybe it's a css thing. in any case i'm not that bothered, just thought i'd point it out.
[spoiler]Long overdue. Great feature.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I woke up before 6:45 AM PDT.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]The butler did it.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]spoiled [/spoiler]
[spoiler]there is no dark side in the moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark[/spoiler]
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 - thanks for catching that. Fixed!
>> ^lucky760:
[spoiler]Is this the most obscure new feature evar or wot![/spoiler]
[spoiler]Testing Testing.[/spoiler]
[spoiler] testicles? [/spoiler]
>> ^seltar:
@lucky760 when a user edits his post and adds spoiler around, it doesn't seem to work
http://videosift.com/video/Cocaine-Theme-song?loadcomm=1#comment-1484826
>> ^seltar:
@lucky760 when a user edits his post and adds spoiler around, it doesn't seem to work
http://videosift.com/video/Cocaine-Theme-song?loadcomm=1#comment-14848
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Actually, if you try that you'll see it works correctly. @ant just used square brackets in that comment.
[spoiler] @ant schooled [/spoiler]
>> ^lucky760:

>> ^seltar:
@lucky760 when a user edits his post and adds spoiler around, it doesn't seem to work
http://videosift.com/video/Cocaine-Theme-song?loadcomm=1#comment-14848 a>
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Actually, if you try that you'll see it works correctly. @ant just used square brackets in that comment.
Hmm, still visible.
>> ^ant:
>> ^lucky760:
>> ^seltar:
@lucky760 when a user edits his post and adds spoiler around, it doesn't seem to work
http://videosift.com/video/Cocaine-Theme-song?loadcomm=1#comment-14848 a>
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Actually, if you try that you'll see it works correctly. @ant just used square brackets in that comment.
Hmm, still visible.
You have to use angled brackets <spoiler>like this</spoiler>.
@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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