Timeline for Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)
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| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:17 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard, doing something like UHS would be cool, but it already exists. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:16 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard, I can think of a few fairly difficult to implement suggestions. They'd also be rather cumbersome. Basically, you can't really have a site of that nature without spoilers. Any time you ask "How do I use <blah>'s special move?" it's a spoiler if that character isn't in your initial party. But that title is completely accurate, and can't really be anonymized without making it a useless title. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:06 | comment | added | Richard JP Le Guen | @devinb - I can respect that position; on rpg.stackexchange we've discussed putting it in the FAQ that the site is a spoiler-zone, just to be clear. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:57 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard, Although I can once again see other sites where this may be an issue (movies, literature) it is a systemic problem that involves the way the site is structures. I don't think a spoiler tag would help. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:54 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard ... five minutes is probably a spoiler. This means you'd have a site which consists almost entirely of spoiler tags, and would have no content allowed to be shown on the front page. This means that it's not as simply as creating a special markup tag and putting the issue to rest. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:53 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard The only thing I support about the < spoiler> tag in that case is to keep things off the front page. On a Q & A site, the spoiler tag doesn't really make much sense, because you need to know the entirety of the question in order to formulate the best possible answer. However, the problem with RPG/Gaming is that some people might recieve information on the front page that they don't want to. And we need some way to stop that. But in general, I'd say that it is an issue that those sites need to deal with on their own, because (especially for RPGs) everything after the first | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:50 | comment | added | devinb | @Richard I would actually consider the gaming/rpg sites to be special exceptions. Give me some time to consider them, if you'd be so kind. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:43 | comment | added | Richard JP Le Guen | What about on a gaming site? I'm under the impression rpg.stackexchange and gaming.stackexchange are watching this question with hungry eyes. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:18 | history | answered | devinb | CC BY-SA 2.5 |