Spoiler

[Pc Monk]

i was posting than i started to look for spoiler tag that i couldn't find it..its good if we have an spoiler .. sometimes you wanna write something that will be hidden automatically and the user have too click on it to see it, and it may offend some ppl so you can hide it first

[brad jones]

I'm not aware of such a tag. How would it be used outside of Chit Chat?

[dunfiddlin]

I must admit I can't really see a use for it in this kind of forum. The whole point is to reveal information, isn't it?

[Pc Monk]

spoiler is most like a combo box it hide the message automatically and when u click it shows the message , its always useful here is an example that i googled for spoiler it comes with this
and you are right dunfiddlin but sometimes in chit-chat it can be used

[brad jones]

Sorry, but without someone providing a legitimate example of how it would be used for technology topics (not chit chat topics), I can't see us investing the time or energy to find a spoiler tag or widget.

Brad!

[Niya]

I must admit I can't really see a use for it in this kind of forum. The whole point is to reveal information, isn't it?

I've been on forums before that had them. They are mostly used to give readers the option to read off-topic musings in posts. I can live without them here but I have to admit, there were more than a couple times I had to stop and remind myself that this forum doesn't have them while I was writing certain posts.

[techgnome]

Only place I've seen them is in forums where we talked about movies and such... we could then hide the spoilers so that others could still read through the threads w/o reading something they wished they hadn't.

-tg

[RobDog888]

Movies are the only real topic that a spoiler tag could be used. However you can always add a description in the thread title like "[SPOLIER] Blah, blah, blah..."

[Steve R Jones]

Test post...You can use the color function to hide stuff

See if you can find the hidden words in this post....

[dee-u]

Test post...You can use the color function to hide stuff

[Nightwalker83]

Test post...You can use the color function to hide stuff

Although, it appears the color method does not work for some words! Look at "Test" in your post.

Edit:

It hid it in my post but not in your original post.

[brad jones]

Hiding text with color and doing those types of tricks are not really something we want to encourage. Such actions can be red flags to the search engines.

Also - color tricks don't hide the spoiler in the email that is sent to anyone with a subscription to a thread or forum....

Brad!
this was my 5,555th post.

[Steve R Jones]

Although, it appears the color method does not work for some words! Look at "Test" in your post.

Edit:

It hid it in my post but not in your original post.

hmmmm. I don't see it in my post

Oh well, as Brad mentioned, we don't want to get carried away with this.

[Nightwalker83]

hmmmm. I don't see it in my post

Damn adwords! It was a link to an ad when I posted above but now it's not.