Spoiler Tags
 

I'm not sure if maybe we already have this and I'm just to much of a fool to realize it. If not I think it'd be a good idea to implement them, personally I don't enjoy feeling like I've been assigned a creative writing project every time I need to insert a spoiler warning.

Second.

Are we talking the kind you click or the kind you highlight.
Woah flashback.

I think there should be an expandable tag that you click it and it automatically opens up and puts in the rest of the text. Like:

This is what the tag would look like:
SPOILER whatever the person wants to describe the spoiler as (public knowledge stuff)

And then click it and it changes to:
SPOILER
text text text
text text text
text text text
text text text
text text text
text text text
text text text
text text text
SPOILER

I like how 4chan does it, where the spoiler'd text is blacked out and only reveals it's SCANDALOUS SECRETS when you move your mouse over it.

I don't like that version. I'm talking about almost like a livejournal cut type of thing.

Ie, what I said (type you click).

The blacked out ones have compatibility issues for older internet explorers and several other browsers.

I have no idea what that is

The Livejournal thing, that is.

Also, why haven't you upgraded to 7 yet, it's gr8

How about we have another contest in the art forum for a "SPOILER ALERT" image. Nothing too huge or whatever, but whichever one we go with, I'll set it up as a :spoiler emoticon that we can use wherever we want.

Sound good?

I think we need to have it so the spoiler isn't in text on the page until something is clicked, because some people do browse the site from sidekicks and other phones, and they don't have nearly the same compatibility. Maybe make it so instead of it saying spoiler, we can have an image, but I still think it really needs something clickable instead of just highlighting the text a different color.

Do you mean an emoticon that just says Spoiler Warning, without actually covering up any text? That's not very useful to be honest.

:eek < SPOILERS

I know that some forums have a spoiler cut where you just click a button and it shows you the cut text if you choose to see it.

I REMEMBER SUGGESTING THIS A YEAR AGO TOO

No, it's like a tag in forum code. We have it at another forum I frequent. You just type
And you have to click on it to view it. Not an image.

I think it would be handy to go the extra mile and have it create an image, that way it is easily recognizeable. It might have been an option on phpbb, but if it was, I never saw it used on here.

Okay, here we go...

Looking up vBulletin spoiler tags, I found something that just may work. Here's the basic thingy:



Help me test it!

This version of it is short and sweet. I'm not going to modify it aesthetically until I'm sure it works how you people want.

The tags are [spoiler=id]Spoiler content[/spoiler]. That "id" may have to be unique on EACH page in the forum, not just in each post. Please play around with it, don't yell about how it looks, simply see if it functions like the majority of you would like it to work.

Yeah, it's going to need an id or clicking the button won't know what to show or hide.

haha and using the same id it only opens the first one on the page when you click a button

you may be able to get away with only changing the tag if you post two spoilers or more in a page

lets see

test

yeah it looks like it just has to be unique on the page you're viewing

Generally speaking there shouldn't be more than one spoiler on a page anyway, usually by the person who starts a thread. But yeah, you'll obviously want to still try giving your spoiler tags a unique name each time.

ideally just use your username or something like that, and add a number after that if you post more than one

of course this adds the fun game of "try to guess someone's spoiler tag before they post it so that you block what they're trying to post from being seen altogether" but man that game is hard

Multiple spoilers per page would work though, as long as the id is different for all the spoilers on one page. I would suggest just putting something like your username with a number tacked on the end for your own spoilers and then hope that nobody else is a jerk and uses your name and numbers as well.

If you do do this, keep in mind that some users may have a different posts-per-page amount than you do, so don't recycle ids for spoilers that would be close together in a thread.

CURSE MY SLOW TYPING

oh hey another possible thing: if you want to make a spoiler MEGA SECRET using the same code a second time will require someone to QUOTE IT to actually see what you wrote

whoa what the heck mariorpg did it w/o using a id number

well i guess that works but again it only works one per page

Or DOES it?



Okay, you can only use a spoiler without an id once per post now.

oh! fantastic :eek

does SECREAT LOCKDOWN MODE SPOILERS still work too

awesome

Yeah, I can't do much about ones with the same id... yet. Thanks for all the test-spamming, Code-Wheel, I didn't think the new tags would get fixed up this fast.

man no problem, its like how i 'tested' the swear filter when they first switched to vbulletin ;(

just out of curiosity could you muck up a similar tag for nsfw stuff? that way ppl could post it and you wouldn't have to navigate away to look @ a link or have the whole thread marked nsfw?

Heh, sweet, using the same code I'm used to.

I'd rather just keep the NSFW stuff off the forums period. We already saw how that went to hell in a handbasket when we allowed people to have one thread to get all that stuff out of their system. :x

Well, no, that was just Sevenforce.

You see more fucked up shit on that 4chan site you go to so dont even try it

hey Cfr5, can you edit it so there's a large wide image instead? If so, I can just run a different design contest!

Roger made the image that is used right now but it can be changed to whatever. I suppose another contest wouldn't hurt.

Is the only image that's changeable the eye with the show/hide or is the entire thing that's initially visible changeable?

if it's just the eye with the show and hide, I think that'll do just fine by itself, but if we can make a large spoilers image that's the width of it, it would be nice

The whole thing can be customized. I just initially copied it from that internet place and it worked so I left it.

aha ;o How wide would you recommend? 500 px so there's no issue on any monitor?

Sure, give it a try. If people don't complain when it's changed you're good to go.

Alrighty!