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Comments on Details tags to avoid spoilers in comments on Puzzles

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Details tags to avoid spoilers in comments on Puzzles

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I raised on the main Meta Should details tags work in comments? and the results were mixed, including some people strongly opposed to the idea. I expect that different communities will have different reasons for and against, so I'm posting here to get the thoughts of this specific community (Puzzles).

If there is support here for being able to hide sections of a comment to allow discussing a puzzle without spoiling it, then that might be a reason to make this a community-specific setting, so communities that don't want details sections in comments can leave them disabled, but Puzzles can enable them (once promoted to its own community).

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I think spoilers (similar to Someplace Else where they use something like !> or alternatively clicking a formatting icon) will be useful for all manner of sites, sooner or later. The <details> <summary> HTML stuff is clunky and cumbersome, no matter if part of an answer or comment.

Spoilers are useful for Puzzles, maybe for Code Golf, definitely for sites discussing literature or movies etc.

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Other discussions of spoiler formatting specifically (1 comment)
Other discussions of spoiler formatting specifically
trichoplax‭ wrote 6 months ago

On the main Meta there have been discussions about implementing spoilers and their advantages over collapsible details sections:

I know you've been involved in one of those already, but this seemed like a good place to mention them for other readers.