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Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 September 2011 08:12:20PM 5 points [-]

There's a couple of web forums I use that support a way of hiding any part of what you post. The relevant markup is recognised and automatically replaced with a graphic that indicates there is something hidden. It is revealed, on one site by mousing over the graphic, and on the other by clicking on it.

It's quite useful, but I don't know how much work it would be to implement it here.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 02 September 2011 09:54:33PM 1 point [-]

That's an excellent suggestion. I'll look at it in a month if it's not already done by whoever's been working with the LW code (I've yet to look at it).

Comment author: twanvl 02 September 2011 10:10:55PM *  6 points [-]

I know that some reddits (for example /r/gaming) do this using links. You write [something goes here](/spoiler) to get something goes here. It should be fairly easy to adapt to LW, since LW is based on reddit. In fact, it is just a matter of changing the stylesheet:

a[href$="/spoiler"] {
background: #888 !important;
color: #888 !important;
}
a[href$="/spoiler"]:hover {
background: #bbb !important;
color: black !important;
}

As an alternative that you can use right now, put the spoiler in the tooltip of a link: [spoiler](/"something goes here"), i.e. spoiler.

Comment author: Logos01 03 September 2011 01:07:47AM 3 points [-]

Basic reddit code -- unlike the /r/gaming 'hack' -- supports the following syntax: [text goes here](http://linkgoes.here "hovertext goes here") which gets you: text goes here . :-)

Comment author: wedrifid 03 September 2011 04:17:27AM 1 point [-]

Basic reddit code

Indeed, basic markdown code!

Comment author: Logos01 03 September 2011 10:53:35AM 0 points [-]

Correct, even though Reddit (and by proxy Lesswrong) uses Discount rather than traditional markdown. The syntax remains the same.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 02 September 2011 10:41:50PM 0 points [-]

Yes. This works quite well.

Actual example on reddit

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