Quoting Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
On 16/12/2007, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
That's true. The sample size is very small. But considering that
one argument
made in favor of spoiler removal was that the spoiler-removal was
favored by
the public this preliminary data doesn't seem to back that up at
all and if
anything shows the other direction.
Is there anyway to avoid having always visible spoiler warnings, while allowing users who care about such things to either set a preference to collapse spoiler sections or to be able to set a user.css or user.js function to hide those sections?
The obvious problem is that we then move the debate into "should they default to on or off?", which will be no less acrimonious.
(Consider: having them default to displaying the section, leaving spoiler warnings an "opt-in" method, means that the articles are going to look the same to a passing user as they would *with no spoiler warnings at all*. Hmm. Maybe if you had a "click here to hide spoilers in the rest of the article" button in the top of the page, and did some CSS show/hide trick with that... is that workable?)
This seems good, and if the template was well designed it could be put as a small innocuous little thing that hovered near the editing options at the top.