Linking to spoilers on the scratch pad doesn't work too well because our scratch pads are really designed to be temporary. We want the nodes to be generating content as permanent as possible in the Internet--for our posterity, you know... ;)
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Yes, so right.
Then perhaps we should start a node called Spoilers, and just post our spoilers there as a reply, and link to it in the original thread.
Maybe we should have another section added, called Spoilers, but not easy to get to.
-QM
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Allolex suggested I share this with the group:
If there is a root node called Spoilers, where all spoilers live separate from the original thread, each spoiler "answer" can have comments and replies, which will not show up in the original thread. This keeps all spoiler related discussion tucked neatly away behind links.
Allolex points out that this departs from the SOP where one root node "contains" the entire discussion. I assume this comes from some ideal of displaying the root node and reading the entire discussion just with a mouse-wheel -- of somehow encapsulating a discussion into a glass box for all to see at a glance.
I would counter that many threads have links outside the original thread. In fact, in a heavy response thread, beyond some threshold responses are hidden behind links anyway.
<tongue-in-cheek>What are browsers for?</tongue-in-cheek> :)
-QM
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