It doesn’t annoy me, as long as they link to a rot13 translation site.
Come to think of it, as long as they’re linking, they could just have a website where it just tells you what it is. Perhaps just have it have rot13 in the URL and use that. Does anyone know a website that does that?
So instead of writing “Guvf vf n grfg”, one might do “Guvf vf n grfg”, or maybe just “Spoiler”.
The advantage of the first method is that it gives you some idea of how long the spoilered text is before you look at it, and maybe recognize the text enough so you don’t have to look it up again the next time you want to read the same post. The advantage of the second method is that it conceals everything about the spoiler, and doesn’t even reveal any information once you look at the URL.
You could post spoilers to something like Pastebin, and just link to the page on there. Or if Pastebin is too heavyweight, I could probably make a simple web site that lets you write in LW comment syntax, super-minimalistic, in about an hour. I’m trying to develop a habit of just jumping in and doing things, so let me know if you’d be interested.
It doesn’t annoy me, as long as they link to a rot13 translation site.
Come to think of it, as long as they’re linking, they could just have a website where it just tells you what it is. Perhaps just have it have rot13 in the URL and use that. Does anyone know a website that does that?
rot13.com does:
http://rot13.com/index.php?text=Guvf+vf+n+grfg.
(Of course, you have to urlencode the text.)
So instead of writing “Guvf vf n grfg”, one might do “Guvf vf n grfg”, or maybe just “Spoiler”.
The advantage of the first method is that it gives you some idea of how long the spoilered text is before you look at it, and maybe recognize the text enough so you don’t have to look it up again the next time you want to read the same post. The advantage of the second method is that it conceals everything about the spoiler, and doesn’t even reveal any information once you look at the URL.
Checking if this works...
EDIT: Yep, apparently the link works fine even if you don’t bother replacing the special characters. May depend on the browser, though.
You could post spoilers to something like Pastebin, and just link to the page on there. Or if Pastebin is too heavyweight, I could probably make a simple web site that lets you write in LW comment syntax, super-minimalistic, in about an hour. I’m trying to develop a habit of just jumping in and doing things, so let me know if you’d be interested.
EDIT: Okay, I made one.
Sorry I’m late to the game, but yes, I happen to have made such a website.
http://www.lightning-rose.com/projects/rot13.htm
Text input is converted to raw rot13 text, raw URL, HTML URL, and UBB URL.
Here’s an example of a raw URL:
http://www.lightning-rose.com/projects/rot13.htm?Yvtugavat%20Ebfr%20znqr%20guvf%21