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wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
8th May, 2020 09:38:05 AM

You shouldn't be doing this anyway, per Handling Spoilers.

Instead, you should find a descriptor for the character that avoids the spoiler while still unambiguously identifying them; "The Murderer" or something.

Are you sure it's the character's name that's the spoiler?

Edited by wingedcatgirl Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
LB7979 Since: Apr, 2016
8th May, 2020 09:45:41 AM

It's just that the closing [[/folder]] part of the markup is missing. I added it to fix the formatting, but as the user above said, a character name can't be spoilered-out so you should try to describe them otherwise.

rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
8th May, 2020 12:11:13 PM

I'm curious why the markup even allows folder titles to be spoiler tagged. I guess because it's better than unintentionally leaving spoilers out in the open?

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wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
8th May, 2020 12:28:16 PM

I assume the feature was implemented before it was decided that we shouldn't do that?

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
8th May, 2020 12:31:09 PM

Or maybe it's just that spoilers are indiscriminate about what they accept and don't even notice there's a folder in them.

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