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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 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
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.
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 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.
 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-18-2009, 09:11 PM:
 
Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle

 
Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 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.
 
Posted by Lyle Romer (Member # 1266) on 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.
 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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.
 
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-19-2009, 04:14 PM:
 
Maybe once the bugs are worked out, I'll get all hard-ass and enforce the use. [Devil]
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-19-2009, 06:26 PM:
 
About time, though I like my simple mouse-over code better. [Smile]

Many of my posts already use the spoiler tags.
 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-19-2009, 06:51 PM:
 
But now they're hidden...makes a big difference. [Devil]
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-19-2009, 11:36 PM:
 
Yeah I know, I put them in my posts years ago in anticipation of spoiler tags. [Big Grin]

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.
 
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 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.
 
Posted by Galen Murphy-Fahlgren (Member # 4535) on 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.
 
Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 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 [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-21-2009, 09:14 PM:
 
As soon as your mom leaves my house. [evil]
 
Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 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?

[Wink]
 
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-21-2009, 09:50 PM:
 
Spoiler Alert
 
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-21-2009, 10:11 PM:
 
quote: Mark Lensenmayer
Is this the short on the new PIXAR movie? Anyone have a synopsis?
Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle

 
Posted by Galen Murphy-Fahlgren (Member # 4535) on 05-22-2009, 12:34 AM:
 
Adam, I thought for a second that you had gotten that addition by the IMDB editors and that it wasn't real, but by doing a search on the director's name, I found the web page for the movie. It actually looks somewhat half decent, like if it was playing at one of my preferred theaters around here, I would think about going to see it, and probably not end up going.
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-22-2009, 08:21 PM:
 
quote: Joe Redifer
Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle

 
Posted by Stu Jamieson (Member # 4626) on 05-30-2009, 06:58 AM:
 
With regards to the [ quote ] thing, is there an easy way to do that or do you have to manually cut & paste the required passage between quote tags?
 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-09-2009, 09:57 PM:
 
That is the easy way. How could it be any easier? [Eek!]
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-10-2009, 02:27 AM:
 
Well, vBulletin offers a QUOTE button on each post. You press it and it puts that post in quote tags automatically for your new post. However people tend to overuse it when they replay. They literally quote the entire post right above theirs and that is very annoying.
 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-10-2009, 06:12 AM:
 
I hate that. [thumbsdown]
 
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 07-10-2009, 11:38 AM:
 
quote:
I hate that. [thumbsdown]
Me too. [Razz]
 




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