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Spoiler tags are used to hide text unless hovered over. They are done by starting lines with '>! '.

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As a part of the Community Asks Sprint last month, we worked on a couple of improvements to spoilers which are outlined in this Meta Stack Exchange post. The biggest change for Puzzling is the ...
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TL:DR; The answer to my math-topic post has lots of spoiler tags, and it’s so difficult to read. Is spoilers really required in totally math-related answer? 5 months ago, I posted a math puzzle (or ...
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Mother-meta background It is currently impossible to search for text inside of a spoiler. This is status-bydesign because people might find spoilers in search by accident (which defeats the purpose ...
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TL;DR: Sometime between March 28 and April 1st of 2025, https://rot13.com/ became inaccessible due to bad redirects. As it's been a week, and it's unclear when the site will be back up, I thought it ...
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It is very easy to get spoiled on an answer via the inbox. Example (don't click if you don't want to be spoiled on this question) As you can see in the spoilered image, all the words after "...
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There are lots of questions in the Puzzling Meta about coded comments, suggesting that there's a demand for spoiler blocks within comments. The spoiler block is already a Stack Exchange addition to ...
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I have cleared cookies, logged out and back in, and disabled ublock origin. I have no other add-ons. Running latest version of Firefox. It works in chrome and edge with ublock running. Driving me ...
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Overview Our community utilizes spoiler functionality very heavily. However, it's lacking in obvious areas such as comments, chat and titles. [1] In a post, it's easy to use a spoiler by appending an ...
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So this is what happens: You have a really long answer to puzzle and have finished writing the draft. You go down to click one of the spoiler tags to see if they are working, but what happens is that ...
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Here is a situation where I avoid linking one of my questions to one of my answers, and the reason I give is: But please do not link it, because then when someone looks at the puzzle, "Unsolved ...
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There seems to be a policy of the site that the important part of answers should be hidden in spoiler blocks. However, I still see answers that are not hidden in spoiler blocks. Most of the answers ...
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I was exploring the site and saw this. I haven't met the same thing on other SE sites: Maybe it's my Windows fault that I can't see it properly? Or perhaps that's a feature for puzzling the look of ...
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I get that typing ">! text" puts the text behind a spoiler, e.g:
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The comment: Thanks, dad! Never again Is a big spoiler for the puzzle in the question, I immediately made to flag for mod attention, but couldn't find whether spoiler comments/answers should be ...
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I thought it might be useful to ask a question about how to use the spoiler formatting to hopefully prompt a useful answer where someone can explain how to use spoilers when answering questions. I ...
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