As you know, the board limits spoilers to 7 per post, filters them from signatures, and all sorts of restrictions. I figured, maybe rather than have all that shit, we could rework spoilers to avoid the issues we tried to address.


Here are some possible spoiler styles, with their pros and cons:


Old Acmlmboard style

Basically black text in a black box. Reading the contents requires highlighting (which can be unpractical for certain devices). Doesn't work on images.




Kafuka

A box with its contents hidden. Hovering over the box reveals the contents. Doesn't work well on mobile browsers.




ABXD

Also our current style. A button expanding/collapsing the spoiler box. Cool and all, but often misused due to the click-to-expand mechanic:

* categorizing posts the wrong way (just use bold headings or whatever, don't stick everything into spoilers)
* other wrong ways to 'save' space
* putting a ton of shit in your signature that should go in your bio
* idiots making spoiler pyramids (although that one is rare)




New style

A style I thought of, being a cross of the two above. Basically the ABXD spoiler, but when hidden, the box is just made invisible instead of being collapsed. Meaning that hidden spoilers still take space, making users more responsible about the space they take, and less likely to abuse spoilers just for the click-to-expand mechanic.

Notice how it always takes the same amount of space. (the final one would have a border materializing the spoiler zone, this is just a silly hack)



or whatever else

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Posted by gridatttack

Hmmmm, I suppose I can pick the new style if adding spoiler images to it wont take up the space, as seeing a huge blank space would be bad.

As said, a border will materialize the spoiler space, so it doesn't look like a huge blank space, and you know there's something there.

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okay well, let's test them



so, how is it?




I raised the limit to 16 per post. Might raise it higher and/or remove the filter from signatures.

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Spoilers are meant to hide information that users may not want to see. Like spoilers (WARNING SPOILER! BOWSER KILLS PEACH IN NEW SUPER MARIO BROS 4), hence their name.


They weren't invented to artificially compress posts.

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melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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that's a lot of overcomplication for nothing

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melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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>board is phpBB

how is it to moderate that? last time I moderated a phpBB, I hated it



also, if you think my attitude here is wrong, consider this: implementing two separate spoiler types, when the board can very well only use one considering how seldom spoilers are used anyway (and how most of the uses for the ABXD-style spoiler were crap)

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same shit, too much trouble for nothing really


does phpBB still require 8 clicks to properly trash a thread?

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melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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