EPTI am all for people organizing their writing. In some ways, the (new/odd) convention of spoiler tags does help organize. However, you can achieve the same effect with bold heading.
TL;DR I don't care how it's organized so long as it IS organized.
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skatbone
United States1005 Posts
I am all for people organizing their writing. In some ways, the (new/odd) convention of spoiler tags does help organize. However, you can achieve the same effect with bold heading. TL;DR I don't care how it's organized so long as it IS organized. | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
Yes walls of text suck. That's what the return key and the various ways of formatting texts are there for. For larger pieces a table of content sounds like a good idea, and is definitely less work for the author than putting their entire post into spoiler tags. To be clear this rant is just that, a rant. I won't moderate any guides just because they are hidden in spoilers. In fact I most likely will find the click orgy too annoying to even read them. | ||
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Nyctophobia
Canada99 Posts
If it's opening and closing spoiler tags just to read a few sentences, though, it is most definitely annoying. | ||
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Arterial
Australia1039 Posts
It lets you read walls of text in smaller bites, do you really want to see a big wall of text? | ||
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Carbonthief
United States289 Posts
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iAmJeffReY
United States4262 Posts
On July 27 2011 06:41 zatic wrote: Every single one of our front page news is larger than most guides posted on this forum. Are you people seriously suggesting it would be better to put them all into 12 spoiler tags? You for rela? Yes walls of text suck. That's what the return key and the various ways of formatting texts are there for. For larger pieces a table of content sounds like a good idea, and is definitely less work for the author than putting their entire post into spoiler tags. To be clear this rant is just that, a rant. I won't moderate any guides just because they are hidden in spoilers. In fact I most likely will find the click orgy too annoying to even read them. News and guides are two separate entities, my friend. A guide is like a glossary in a book. Do you want that not organized or collected into general 'chapters' or ideas? | ||
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Frozenhelfire
United States420 Posts
On July 27 2011 06:41 zatic wrote: Every single one of our front page news is larger than most guides posted on this forum. Are you people seriously suggesting it would be better to put them all into 12 spoiler tags? You for rela? Yes walls of text suck. That's what the return key and the various ways of formatting texts are there for. For larger pieces a table of content sounds like a good idea, and is definitely less work for the author than putting their entire post into spoiler tags. To be clear this rant is just that, a rant. I won't moderate any guides just because they are hidden in spoilers. In fact I most likely will find the click orgy too annoying to even read them. Yes, the spoilers make it a lot easier to quickly reference the relevant part of the guide, especially while in a game. I would prefer to has as little irrelevant text on my screen as possible, and spoilers are the best way to achieve that goal. | ||
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Vod.kaholic
United States1052 Posts
On July 27 2011 06:41 zatic wrote: Every single one of our front page news is larger than most guides posted on this forum. Are you people seriously suggesting it would be better to put them all into 12 spoiler tags? You for rela? Yes walls of text suck. That's what the return key and the various ways of formatting texts are there for. For larger pieces a table of content sounds like a good idea, and is definitely less work for the author than putting their entire post into spoiler tags. To be clear this rant is just that, a rant. I won't moderate any guides just because they are hidden in spoilers. In fact I most likely will find the click orgy too annoying to even read them. Zatic, the irony just struck me: You're a starcraft player complaining about having to click a lot xD Seriously though, front page news =/ guides. Nobody's asking you to put all the news in spoiler tags because it serves no purpose to do so. Not every reader of a news post has to quickly reference a section of it, whereas a guide, all the readers can conceivably come back to review a specific piece of information and don't want to scroll awkwardly to find it. Just click and get all the info you needed, makes a lot of sense for guides. | ||
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pieisamazing
United States1234 Posts
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DE4DhunTer
22 Posts
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The.Doctor
Canada333 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + madbro? | ||
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epikAnglory
United States1120 Posts
On July 27 2011 09:07 DE4DhunTer wrote: Ughh... I am dieing as Z here. The games that I play against T there's practically always a place to siege where your lings can't get to. lol | ||
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denzelz
United States604 Posts
Maybe it will be helpful for you to post some links in the OP of good guides in the past. | ||
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Rorra
Australia1066 Posts
If its annoying/breaks up the pace for some people then maybe guides should include as few spoilers as possible, It would definitely be stupid to try and moderate such a thing but if I ever write a guide I'll keep it in mind. | ||
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Oakwarrior
Estonia31 Posts
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emc
United States3088 Posts
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RedJustice
United States1004 Posts
Spoilers are another way of helping people in this forum learn better through visual organization. I have no understanding of your dislike of them, or your complaint of clicking to view information. I find them an excellent structural tool. | ||
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Jtn
444 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10380 Posts
Now, if someone has to click 10 spoiler levels deep, that is annoying. But for people who just separate it into headlines, and make each block a spoiler, I like that. | ||
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Copenap
723 Posts
I can see why people could be annoyed by it but I definitly prefer this format. If I remember correctly iEchoics format of postint his build was widely regarded as a role model for strat posts. I like how the tl mods try to keep the strat forum clean and useful but in this case I simply disagree. Edit: Tbh, even your 'slight' overuse of spoilers in the op in fact made it easier to get a quick overview of what I can expect when reading your post  | ||
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