Spoiler feature request

Kore

Could we get some sort of spoiler button? It's sure to be used frequently as the site becomes used by people who aren't quite as fanatical about BG and therefore don't know everything quite yet about the games.

This sort of ties in with the formatting changes Cameron promised in the quote feature thread, but if possible a spoiler button would be better than simply changing the text colour to the background colour.

Edit: I just had a poke around Vanilla and there should be a feature to turn on

Bhryaen

Probably better will ultimately be category heads that state if a section allows spoilers or not. For now it's pretty much no holds barred in order to facilitate the process. Why indeed would a BG-novice come to the BGEE Forum at this point?

Kore

Even so, its a bit unfair to bar newer users from a whole category because some threads have spoilers. Besides, thats what this trial period is for, getting things like this sorted before they can roll it out to the masses

Tanthalas

I kind of have a lax stance on spoilers considering that BG is already a 10 year old game. It always annoys me when I get moderated on other forums because I forgot to put a spoiler tag up before mentioning that Aeris dies (yeah, that's right, she dies! She gets skewered like a pig!).

I think that if or when more subcategories are added that one of them should be a place for discussing the plot. Spoiler tags should be unnecessary there because you enter at your own risk.

Though I understand that for other subcategories like Bug reports, or getting help with stuff in the game, etc, Spoiler tags will probably be necessary so if Vanilla has the feature it shouldn't be a big deal to implement.

Though yeah, at this point in time the forums are practically only open to vets, so I get @Bhryaen's point.

Aliteri

Probably better will ultimately be category heads that state if a section allows spoilers or not. For now it's pretty much no holds barred in order to facilitate the process. Why indeed would a BG-novice come to the BGEE Forum at this point?

I think that whoever likes in general should rather no speak of the story at all than spoling it to even a single other person. Meaning that it doesn't really why a novice would come here or not.

Cadros

Well none of us know what the new content is going to be like in any detail, so spoilers would be useful for that at the very least. In addition to this spoilers can be useful for hiding large images etc

ScottBrooks

Spoilers are now enabled, use square brackets around spoiler like [spoiler]secret stuff here[/spoiler]

PhillipDaigle

poop

Bhryaen

I am not going back to my spoiler-filled posts to go hiding text this way... except maybe reference to the

Ulcaster Secret Door Skeleton Ring Quest

that no one should know about yet...

Kore

Spoilers are now enabled, use square brackets around spoiler like [spoiler]secret stuff here[/spoiler]

Cheers

_Luke_

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