Spoiler Avoiding Faq
That_Annoying_Kid
Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
Well for many a month now I've wondered how to not spoil things in the fan fic forum when discussing a story. Animesuke has a little spoiler tag where you have to click to read the quote, but thats on different from IPB.
However lo and behold rave did something obscenely cool with quote and color tags
for sheer irony, if you want to try and figure out you can try, or you could highlight the spoiler quote ~_^
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> [ QUOTE=SPOILER!] tag and the [ color=#031D1F] tag then you say what you were going to say "wow, I didn't know that so and so dies and the end of the story, or wow, I think it's cool that the elite squad of TSA made it off the station in the nick of time. Then it is vitally important to close you tags [ /quote] [ /color] <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span> and voila, one spoiler free post
in short, it's a working viable way of discussing a story in it's thread without ruining it for the people who haven't read it, and you don't have to do any more *** SPOILER *** type stuff
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close a tag >_<
did I spell spoiler right?
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However lo and behold rave did something obscenely cool with quote and color tags
for sheer irony, if you want to try and figure out you can try, or you could highlight the spoiler quote ~_^
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'> [ QUOTE=SPOILER!] tag and the [ color=#031D1F] tag then you say what you were going to say "wow, I didn't know that so and so dies and the end of the story, or wow, I think it's cool that the elite squad of TSA made it off the station in the nick of time. Then it is vitally important to close you tags [ /quote] [ /color] <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span> and voila, one spoiler free post
in short, it's a working viable way of discussing a story in it's thread without ruining it for the people who haven't read it, and you don't have to do any more *** SPOILER *** type stuff
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close a tag >_<
did I spell spoiler right?
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nice find <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
resulting in:
<!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> dont read this <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
phase to general or something...
Oh look at my mad skillz n00bozors woooo!
<!--QuoteBegin-Iroxor+Usuxor ha ha ha ha--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Iroxor @ Usuxor ha ha ha ha)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>OMG DON'T HIGHLIGHT ME! Have you no decency?!</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
agent are you actually reading the thread?
lemme break it down for you:
for starters, in the Fan Fic <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130' target='_blank'>FAQ</a>, molecular [know who that is?] states that ***spoilers*** tags should be used if your going to discuss part of <b>fan fic story</b> and you don't want to ruin it for people who haven't read the story yet. Unknown Enemy got ruined for me when I found out that <!--QuoteBegin-SPOILER!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SPOILER!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>The main characters die when the TSA hurls asterioids at the kharaa planet <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--></span> thats a prime example of how this could help
True it's not really a FAQ, it's more of a guide, I'm sure rob6264 will be more than happy to change the title if I asked him.
However, it's is an obscenely more effictive way of preventing people from reading discussion about a parts of a story that they haven't read.
make sense? <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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and tommy, true you could do that, but having the spoiler inside a quote box makes it real clear when the spoilers starts and ends ^__^
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<!--QuoteBegin-teehee+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (teehee)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:#031D1F'>Shame on yous</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Honestly, I don't know why it is in here too, but meh, one thread is already enough =X
Anyways, there is more than one way to conceal messages, you do not need quote tags at all, all you need are the [ color ] tags
I'll go around and give an example. <span style='color:#041e2d'>ROWR I MADE THIS!</span>
Did you see it? Of course not, it's not there right? Actually, it is. Just highlight it after the sentence.
You can also do stuff, <span style='font-size:2pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:#041e2d'>like this</span></span>.
See the small space? Notice the abnormally cryptic message there?
There are MANY other applications for his, I'll leave it up to your imagination as to how you will apply it....
And if anyone is interested, here are the color tables for posts.
Regular posting : #041E2D
Quote-styled spoiler : #031D1F
Alternatively, you can look in the forum source, and look for these...thingies in background-color (been a long time since I used CSS....)
.post1 - Regular posts
.post2 - Same as above
#QUOTE - Quotes
And that practically ends it all on how to stop spoiling stuff.
EDIT : Fixed cryptic message.