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Author Topic: Spoiler Alerts Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-18-2009 08:52 PM                     For fun, and because I was trying to do something completely different, I hacked in spoiler tags to the forum software. Please start using them to bracket your spoilers. [ SPOILER ] and [ /SPOILER ] (without the spaces). Javascript is required. Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! Clicking the toggle link will open or close all of the spoilers on the current page. This hack was only tested briefly, so expect the unexpected and reply here if you notice a problem.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-18-2009 08:58 PM                     Thanks for adding the feature! Now maybe I can actually read some movie review threads before seeing the show (provided participants actually follow through with the bracketing feature). It's not anywhere near good enough for someone to just write "spoilers" and then proceed to give away big parts of a movie in a post. Anyone with any ability at all to skim over paragraphs of text can accidentally see the spoiler text regardless of the warning. It's great to be able to completely hide spoilers in a click-able tag.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-18-2009 09:11 PM                     Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle Oooooohhhh...Isn't Adam the clever one...?  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-18-2009 11:55 PM                        I noticed that when I looked at "Today's Active Topics" the spoiler was NOT hidden when it was within the first part of the post. So, this could still need a little tweaking.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 05-19-2009 10:02 AM                     This is the greatest thing ever done in the history of mankind!!! Seriously, I'm in the same boat as Bobby. Whenever there's something I look forward to seeing I can't look at the reviews on this forum. Now I can!!! I'd like to suggest that for the next couple of months, the mods open a thread for every upcoming release with the spoiler tag instructions in the first post. I'm hoping this will train all user to use the tags all the time. This will prevent somebody who hasn't read about the feature from opening a thread on let's say Terminator Salvation and not using the spoiler tags because they don't know about them.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-19-2009 10:56 AM                        Great new feature, but with the number of people around here who can't even operate the "quote" feature, I wonder how much this will be used.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-19-2009 04:14 PM                     Maybe once the bugs are worked out, I'll get all hard-ass and enforce the use.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-19-2009 06:26 PM                        About time, though I like my simple mouse-over code better. Many of my posts already use the spoiler tags.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-19-2009 06:51 PM                     But now they're hidden...makes a big difference.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-19-2009 11:36 PM                        Yeah I know, I put them in my posts years ago in anticipation of spoiler tags. Next up: embedding Youtube video (which I have created the code for loooooooooong ago, and it could likely easily be adapted to UBB). I've got: [youtube] [/youtube] = For general Youtube posting [youtubehq] [/youtubehq] = High quality Youtube posting [youtubews] [/youtubews] = Widescreen Youtube posting (defaults to high quality) [youtubehd] [/youtubehd] = Youtube "HD" 720x480p posting [music] [/music] = sound only (stereo). Coming soon to Film-Tech? Check back in 2012.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-19-2009 11:55 PM                     Send me current links or info about your pre-existing tags, Joe. The links in the other thread don't point to anything that makes sense.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 05-21-2009 04:17 PM                     One thing I noticed: when you open the spoiler tags in one post in a thread, it opens all of them in that thread. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I have seen this function in other fora that only opens the one you clicked. I don't really care either way, because no plot holds any real surprises for my mighty intellect, and I am hence immune to spoilers, but I thought I would mention it.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-21-2009 05:27 PM                     So Adam, when are you going to go back to all the previous threads and posts and edit in the new code? Just wondering  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-21-2009 09:14 PM                     As soon as your mom leaves my house.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-21-2009 09:48 PM                     This is really disgusting! 13 posts and not ONE PERSON has reviewed the film SPOILER ALERTS. I can't even find it on Rotten Tomatoes! Isn't this the movie review thread? All I see is this blithering about codes and such. Is this the short on the new PIXAR movie? Anyone have a synopsis?  |  IP: Logged

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