DanielLC comments on Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 23 October 2010 07:10:53PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't annoy me, as long as they link to a rot13 translation site.

Come to think of it, as long as they're linking, they could just have a website where it just tells you what it is. Perhaps just have it have rot13 in the URL and use that. Does anyone know a website that does that?

Comment author: arundelo 23 October 2010 07:34:49PM 5 points [-]

rot13.com does:

http://rot13.com/index.php?text=Guvf+vf+n+grfg.

(Of course, you have to urlencode the text.)

Comment author: [deleted] 23 October 2010 09:05:07PM 4 points [-]

So instead of writing "Guvf vf n grfg", one might do "Guvf vf n grfg", or maybe just "Spoiler".

The advantage of the first method is that it gives you some idea of how long the spoilered text is before you look at it, and maybe recognize the text enough so you don't have to look it up again the next time you want to read the same post. The advantage of the second method is that it conceals everything about the spoiler, and doesn't even reveal any information once you look at the URL.

Comment author: NihilCredo 23 October 2010 09:32:52PM * 1 point [-]

Checking if this works...

EDIT: Yep, apparently the link works fine even if you don't bother replacing the special characters. May depend on the browser, though.

Comment author: sketerpot 23 October 2010 07:37:36PM * 3 points [-]

You could post spoilers to something like Pastebin, and just link to the page on there. Or if Pastebin is too heavyweight, I could probably make a simple web site that lets you write in LW comment syntax, super-minimalistic, in about an hour. I'm trying to develop a habit of just jumping in and doing things, so let me know if you'd be interested.

EDIT: Okay, I made one.