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Spoilers Not Working in PMs

TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
in H.Q. Reception Desk
As the title said - attempting to use spoiler tags in a PM will just cause all the contained text to disappear; there is no spoiler button available to expand it.

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Why would you need a spoiler in a Private Message?

    "Here is a message written specifically for you...but you might not want to read the contents."

    ?

  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    _J_ wrote: »
    Why would you need a spoiler in a Private Message?

    "Here is a message written specifically for you...but you might not want to read the contents."

    ?

    Multiple people can be in a PM conversation and spoilers are also useful for organizational purposes.

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Just a quick note to be careful about the # of people in your conversation...
    A note on the private messaging system

    Our private message system, while inexplicably named "conversations" is not intended as a way for you and thirty of your buddies to have your own private threads. Feel free to use an IRC program if that's what you desire, these forums are largely a public means of communication. Any private conversations containing more than five people are liable to be shut down. Any ridiculously huge private conversations are likely to have their participants jailed or banned. Yes, we can check.

    Had this happen once where I got included on a... rather large PM conversation. Turned ugly, still regret being part of it.

    He/Him | "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Dr. Johnetta Cole, 7/22/2024
  • EndaroEndaro Registered User regular
    I hit this recently when trying to send someone multiple sections that if read straight through would spoil things (think multiple pages out of a choose your own adventure book). Is there anyway to see the original PM, edit it or something, so I can see the sizable text I originally wrote? Or is it lost to space now?

  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    As far as I know it's impossible to access. I never heard of plans to change this behavior, either.

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