Expandable spoiler tags?

**Arreo** · 11-16-10, 12:20 PM

It occurs to me that it might be useful to have a way of encapsulating "spoilers" within posts so that people could discuss things without ruining it for other people (or hide picture heavy posts so as not to slow down browsing).

There a bunch of addons for VB that do this, but since I'm not a owner of a VB license I can't look at the screenshot of each addon to see which are what I mean. However, I did find this site that has a picture of what I mean: A useful javascript spoiler bb code - Admin Zone Forums

Do people think this would be useful?

**CivilWars** · 11-16-10, 12:38 PM

While I think it is a cool feature I wonder how many people would actually take the time to do it?

**Arreo** · 11-16-10, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

While I think it is a cool feature I wonder how many people would actually take the time to do it?

Yeah, that's my only reservation about it. But two threads came up in quick succession that I felt could benefit from it. Namely:

http://www.teamplayergaming.com/news...ome-jokes.html
Spoilers around the punchlines make jokes funnier because you can think of them before you find out...

And this post http://www.teamplayergaming.com/game...ml#post1367598
Is really spoilerific for players of FO:NV and some might appreciate it being hidden...

IDK, maybe it would never get used but then again maybe it would.

**Keiron** · 11-16-10, 12:49 PM

I know I'd try to use it and probably would use it more often once I got use to doing it. It helps for when we talk about movies, TV shows, or even games.

Sometimes you want some info about them but you don't want major spoilers while others might be interested in discussing them in more detail. I think it would be beneficial to have assuming people actually use it.

It sounds like it should be easy to integrate into our system as well, unless I'm missing something, but we should be able to get a button to wrap the selected text in like we do with the other tags for bold, italic, etc.