Hopefully community norms can be upheld with a thorough karma beating; downvoted. (This requires, of course, that the community in fact disapproves of spoilers.)
It is a fact of life on the Internet that there will always be spoilers available to any puzzle or story that someone has finished.
Trying to stop them from appearing is foolish; all you can do is put forth your best effort to encourage readers to refrain from scrolling down (and for this particular post your encouragement was quite weak, to put it mildly).
In a “real” implementation, what’s on the other side of the door would be not just a static text that can be reposted, but an ongoing living discussion. Then the locks can just be changed.
And yes, I did it badly. I might try to fix the implementation at some point. Do you think that should be an edit to this post, or an entirely new post, or the idea outright abandoned?
It’s hardly a spoiler. You are not telling an exciting story with a twist ending. You’re just suggesting to lock up parts of the community and test people before they get in. At worst, it’s a puzzle solution, and not to a particularly interesting puzzle.
Hopefully community norms can be upheld with a thorough karma beating; downvoted. (This requires, of course, that the community in fact disapproves of spoilers.)
Srsly tho, you could at least rot13 that.
(This comment is now at −3. Point taken.)
It is a fact of life on the Internet that there will always be spoilers available to any puzzle or story that someone has finished.
Trying to stop them from appearing is foolish; all you can do is put forth your best effort to encourage readers to refrain from scrolling down (and for this particular post your encouragement was quite weak, to put it mildly).
In a “real” implementation, what’s on the other side of the door would be not just a static text that can be reposted, but an ongoing living discussion. Then the locks can just be changed.
And yes, I did it badly. I might try to fix the implementation at some point. Do you think that should be an edit to this post, or an entirely new post, or the idea outright abandoned?
It’s hardly a spoiler. You are not telling an exciting story with a twist ending. You’re just suggesting to lock up parts of the community and test people before they get in. At worst, it’s a puzzle solution, and not to a particularly interesting puzzle.