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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby mman789 » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:41 pm

I'm all for video embedding, but spoilers are really pointless.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Cyanyde » Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:30 pm

I can support this suggestion.

There are plenty of uses for the spoiler tags.. what about in the off topic forums where people talk aboout games, movies, tv shows... aside from the intended use, there are plenty of other uses for them as well.
As for youtube tags.. we have a game where people are going to post videos from time to time. Again, I think this would be a good idea. :)
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Gorman » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:42 am

TheGrandmaster wrote:@Fluttershy:
I know colours are available, but..

In terms of the two bbcodes, spoiler could become as much as a trolling tool as it is useful. I can see that side as well as the useful side.
Youtube can be linked, I don't see why there needs to be an inbuilt tag for this.

I think anyone who has not used spoiler tags before cannot see the use for them. In all honesty I have been on maybe 5 forums with spoiler tags, and people always find uses for them, they are incredibly useful. I don't see them being used as a trolling tool. I don't even know how that would work. Besides can't people troll with normal text in the first place..?


Clicking youtube links is a pain if there is more than 1 video. Opening new tabs and ugh, it is just unnecessary.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Fluttershy » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:03 pm

I will say this, should spoilers be implemented, make it so you can only have 2 chain spoilers to prevent spoiler pyramids. so for example
main spoiler
subspoiler 1
subspoiler 2
(the subspoilers are independent from each other, so imagine two spoiler boxes inside the first spoiler[im well aware this is confusing]) this is whats allowed, with no particular limit on the number of spoilers under the first one.

make it so you cant have
Main spoiler
spoiler in the first spoiler
spoiler in that spoiler which is in the first spoiler
even more spoilers inside other spoilers
(imagine the first spoiler which leads to a second spoiler with a third one in it and so on)
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Gorman » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:28 pm

What is the point of even policing something like that?
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Cyanyde » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:32 pm

Seems like I could avoid a "spoiler pyramid" by just not clicking it..
It's actually pretty nice of said trolls to contain their nonsense posts where I don't have to see them.

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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby bigdlb » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:50 pm

Spoiler is needed, and so is YOUTUBE, because with spoilers you don't have to click the link for a gun, and you don't have to seee the HUGE image on the page unless you click it.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby mikuli » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:35 pm

So how is it different to click a link for a gun, and not the spoiler-button (with the same damn link inside), or clicking the play-button on a youtube-embed instead of a youtube link?

Content organization is serious pro of the spoiler tag, I agree wholeheartedly - abusers, as always, can be reported with the little exclamation mark-button.

Huge images? Link off-site, no need to attach *everything* just because you can. Clicking the link is no different from clicking the spoiler button.

Just because you can use colors, does not mean you have to write every single message using one, either. *grumble*
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Pulchritude » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:57 pm

+1 to Spoiler tag for Modders/Mappers

Also AFAIK spoiler doesn't load images until you click the spoiler
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby ReubenMcHawk » Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:28 am

YouTube linking is possible. For instance, if I wanted to link my favorite song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBLmogRL4c

I'd just have to put this:

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[flash=420,315]http://www.youtube.com/v/TRBLmogRL4c[/flash]


And it won't let me use the [flash] tags here, but it works.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Gorman » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:07 am

mikuli wrote:So how is it different to click a link for a gun, and not the spoiler-button (with the same damn link inside), or clicking the play-button on a youtube-embed instead of a youtube link?

Content organization is serious pro of the spoiler tag, I agree wholeheartedly - abusers, as always, can be reported with the little exclamation mark-button.

Huge images? Link off-site, no need to attach *everything* just because you can. Clicking the link is no different from clicking the spoiler button.

Just because you can use colors, does not mean you have to write every single message using one, either. *grumble*

Well there are several advantages;
1. Images preloaded, if they were not embedded then you have to click the link and wait for it to load
2. No more extra tabs, if there are links then you have to spam click MMB to open them all, and then either you live with +20 tabs or you close them once you are done. If you close them then you have to open them again to review, ugh!
3. Especially bad with youtube since you probably want to keep the video open while you write a reply, in which case you are ctrl+tabbing like a madman to flick in between tabs.

I could go on but I don't think its necessary.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby LASTofS » Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:35 am

The Youtube one would be nice for the Media section. ;)
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Frostified » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:55 am

The people want this moderators, and you should deliver.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby kmaj » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:00 am

Frostified wrote:The people want this moderators, and you should deliver.

Yeah. If there was a poll, I'll vote yes.
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Re: Two bbcodes wanted: [SPOILER] and [YOUTUBE]

Postby Frostified » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:15 am

kmaj wrote:
Frostified wrote:The people want this moderators, and you should deliver.

Yeah. If there was a poll, I'll vote yes.


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