My community is one of readers, and most readers hate to have
anything spoiled for them. Thus, I went in search of a "spoiler hack" here.
A long, long time ago, someone posted a very basic SPOILER hack that involved adding one line of code to the ubb_lib.cgi file and one line of code to the vars_wordlets_mods.cgi file.
I have that. I am able to use that on my 6.5.0 board (you type [spoiler] and spoiler code fills the area so that if you click on active topics, you don't see the spoiler info).
Because my community is also mostly women--with most of them non-computer types--I need to use the KISS method with a lot of things.
Yes, even typing in [spoiler] is hard for some of them.
So I was hoping that I could convince someone here to modify the simple spoiler hack that I have--into something a little more user friendly.
Here's my vision:
An Instant UBB Code button would be created. You click on it, and a pop-up window--much like the one for BOLD--opens up. Inside this dialogue window, you type the reason for the spoiler. You click OK ... and what you've type is automatically inserted into the message field--and the code for the spoiler is inserted.
It might look something like this:
SPOILER ALERT
The reason for this alert is because a discussion of PORTRAIT IN DEATH follows.
[spoiler]
This would then generate in front of the spoiler message enough of a warning to keep a story from being spoiled.
How hard would this be? Would anyone be willing to take a shot at it?
Thanks.
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