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Is it compulsory to hide all answers in spoiler blocks?
Spoilers are not necessary for answers. As far as I know, there has never been a site policy requiring spoiler-marked answers.
However, it is generally polite to spoiler answers if any of the ...
DeusoviMod
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How do I put a bulleted list behind a spoiler tag?
It's a little cumbersome, but you can use HTML:
>! <ul>
>! <li>bullet 1</li>
>! <li>bullet 2</li>
>! </ul>
...
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Why are quotes invisible in this SE site?
Those aren't quotes; they're spoilers, intended to not accidentally spoil the solution to a puzzle in case you want to figure it out yourself. They're frequently used on Puzzling, and see moderate use ...
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Should comments that spoil a puzzle be flagged for mod attention?
There is no hard-and-fast rule about this, but people generally try to keep spoilers out of the comments, especially on a question (on an answer, I think it's fair to assume that if you're reading the ...
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Is it a good idea to be able to hide my spoiling comment using `>!`?
Would it bring value to us, probably.
Would it bring value to enough other Stacks to make it worth giving priority, maybe but probably not.
Would it happen, doubtful - the list of feature requests to ...
RubioMod
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PSA: please don't ruin puzzles with comments that give away a spoiler-tagged answer
Let's consider the (only) two cases here.
Case 1: You're trying to solve a puzzle that already has an accepted answer
Nothing wrong with this, of course! There are plenty of good puzzles here, and ...
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A really Annoying Problem with spoilers
This isn't worthy of acceptance as an answer, because it's a workaround rather than indication of whether the bug is actually going to be fixed. But:
Over at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/376468/...
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Can we get a Stack Exchange addition to Markdown to allow inline spoilers?
This is really a question for the main meta site.
One obvious problem as presented is that HTML tags don't work in comments.
If enough people agree on a standard though, it could be done unofficially ...
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Do we want extended spoiler functionality?
While this may be OT, it would be really useful to include additional formatting help for spoilers.
For instance, how do I add a block quote as spoiler text?
Why I should only use in a spoiler text ...
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PSA: please don't ruin puzzles with comments that give away a spoiler-tagged answer
Thank you for drawing attention to
the problem of unspoilerized spoilers in comments.
The points made in the post and follow-up comments are annoyingly irrefutable.
Answers’ comments not ...
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Spoiler markup does not break line for series of MathJax equations in post previews
Check out my answer for:
All neighbor sum is 0 on a chessboard
to see how to spoiler long MathJax.
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