The Reading Room

« first day (3600 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (1036 days later) »

2:31 AM

I would like to keep my question brief: like Goodreads, can we feature the spoiler feature here as well (both in questions and answers) to make it a better experience for the users?

feature-request

G Warner

3:06 AM

@CowperKettle LOL

bobble

3:16 AM

@Librarian just... so confused

G Warner

3:28 AM

@bobble spending 20 minutes to even learn the sppoiler syntax markup with no luck

I made a mistake and wandered into meta SE overflow with a question.. that bunch is brutal

bobble

Oh you're the same person!

That was some difficult to find but necessary context

So you're just asking how it works?

A: What's the exact syntax for spoiler markup

The way spoiler works is as follows. If each line in a blockquote (built via >) begins with a ! it will be treated as a spoiler. So, >! This is a spoiler >! But this is > not a spoiler ! But this is not a spoiler >! A multi-line spoiler >! has ! multiple times >! Alignment

G Warner

italic bold ~~strikethrough~~ {code}

bobble

Why do you need spoilers? Also, if you're trying to do some edge-case stuff in a spoiler I can walk you through it. I just cannot understand your meta question

G Warner

Not that theres much use in my life to not ruin movcies or books for people

my meta question? you mean you looed up my error in trying question meta SO?

i am not librrian

bobble

Ah, sorry

G Warner

3:36 AM

!I am not Librarian

okay thank good ness that dnt qwork here

bobble

I assumed you were after your started talking about spoiler formatting and responded to my message about the Meta-lit question

You can't spoiler in chat, yeah. Or comments.

G Warner

I oh. dont do that i babble alot

i found a chat room that no one really talks they just have it to test stuff. i went in there and learned striike thru syntax

bobble

Clearly there is some communication problem here, on at least one side, since I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to communicate

G Warner

a little too late though. i cudve used it to edit a question i asked.

maybe i dont either.

i was babbling talking about two different topics simultaneously

@Tsundoku Late response, I noticed this when I was looking up a pinned comment. I think the decline can be attributed to loosening of pandemic restrictions and a majority are spending less time online, inside, and occupied with technology.

5 hours later…

Tsundoku

9:14 AM

@bobble @GWarner Spoilers are inaccessible to keyboard-only users. Please don't encourage the use of spoiler markup until the accessibility issues have been resolved.

1 hour later…

Bookworm

10:32 AM

Q: 1960s? Young race car driver series (Young Adult)

In the late 60s or early 70s I read a series of books (3 at least) about a young race car driver. (probably 18-20 in the first book) They were hardback books from a library, so could be 5-10 years older. (So could have been published in the 50s or 60s. Specifics I remember from the series: In the...