Spoiler - new BBCode tag

We added a new code tag today for spoilers. Any content you wrap in a spoiler tag will be hidden by default and people will have to click a button to see it. You may have seen it on other boards with the point being to hide spoilers for movie and tv show plots. But other uses may become evident as time goes on. If you like it, thank spiderswims for suggesting it

To use it you can either manually type the spoiler beginning and end tags or use the button in the "go advanced" editor to wrap them automatically. For instance, this:



Will give you this:

Spoiler

I really liked the surprise ending when—who could've guessed—the protagonist defeats evil, gets the girl, and everybody is happy.

Images, lists, and all other BBCodes work too

Also, we've had this for a while but I don't think I mentioned anything, there's a tag for strikethrough text. The del tag (for delete) will [del]put a line through[/del] the text. There's no button for it, though. You'll just have to type it on the rare occasion you might need it.

 

This, gentlemen, is fucking awesome.

Thank you.

Now, God help the person that don't use it and spoils my favourite show that we get 3 months after it show in America

 

He's just mad about Breaking Bad.

 

The shows im watching are on tv 24hr later after their US air time...so no spoilers for me!

Spoiler

It was all a dream

 

Q: Will you allow Vid posters to use this to hide their links? And does hiding the content prevent it from being searched?

 

No, I don't think so. Do you mean hide something they aren't supposed to be doing? It would still only be a click away so mods and others would ultimately see it and take the same steps. Or did you mean something else?

It will still be indexed by vBulletin and available via search here at Phun.

It may or may not have small implications with Google et al. It's hard to say since they don't reveal the inner workings of their algorithm. It's available in the source code so they will definitely index it, but the question is whether they will rank it differently because it's then hidden via CSS. But it probably doesn't matter in our case because I doubt our spoiler text is anything that would drive significant and/or relevant search traffic to Phun anyway.

 

It will not be allowed in the video content forums to hide either text or links. Any such posts should be reported and anyone caught doing so will be warned or worse.

In fact, I'll add language to the rules providing for this policy. Glad you brought it up.

 

Another forum has a hide feature that requires you to hit "Thanks" before it's revealed. I think it's a "thanks" generator plus aids in the detection of white knights.

I just wondered if it was searchable on Phun. Thanks,

Glad I could help, figured that forum would be the first to exploit the option.

 

Yup.

 

will non members be able to see the hidden material?

 

Good question.

 

Yep.

You mean you were able to open and close it, right? As in it worked? Not that the spoiler part was visible without clicking the button?

The worst case—in the case of JS being disabled or failing—is that the content should be hidden and the person sees the button but it doesn't do anything. It could have been done in the reverse way so that they see the content, but if it were me I'd rather not be subjected to a spoiler because I have JS off or something failed.