The Spoiler Tag

[The Man]

Blarg, crono_logical beat me to it. Well, ditto what he said.

I personally favour the idea of allowing people to add things in the spoiler tags that *don't* include "spoiler" (as per my above examples -- if we want to censor things that some people might not want to read, having "spoiler" after them might seem a bit silly), and it would be nice even to allow a blank tag to make things less cluttered. Thus:

The one which uses the {option} can be set to replace [spoiler] with:

<B><I>{option}: </I></B><FONT COLOR="#00243A">{param}</FONT>

so that [spoiler=ARROGANCE]I am the best person in the world[/spoiler] would yield ARROGANCE: I am the best person in the world. Then, there should be perhaps a "blankspoiler" tag (or something of the extent), so that [blankspoiler]blarg[/blankspoiler] would yield merely blarg. Then the old "bigspoiler" box should receive a similar modification, only ", highlight to view:" would be default at the end of the box title in the custom tag.

I think a custom spoiler tag would be a *great* thing. And I think eliminating the parentheses and replacing them with a colon is by far the best option, though I was merely going to add a space after the parentheses when I rewrote the tag. Oh well.

Go crono!

Edit: Pfft, I forgot to mention that apparently, Sephiroth1999AD mentioned a similar idea a *long* time back in chat. So long that I didn't remember it. I figure that since I forgot about it, we both came up with the idea independently of each other. But anyway, a lot of people seem to like the idea.

Peace
The Man