Well.... it sounds like, over in BBaBB our resident coding geniuses, including our beloved weremonkey, are working on the possibility of allowing us to pick and choose which threads we see (or, I guess, not see) spoiler font in. That would allows hos to not have to deal with white font here, while the merely curious would still have to highlight spoiler font to read it.

I was going to say, "Brilliant!" but it looks like my bubble is also burst, Sean.

No I have not done anything about user style sheets beyond preparing the 's' quickedit to be ready for it, if and when. There is a lot to be discussed as to how user styles would be administered.

Just to confuse things, I've had a brainstorm-y idea that spoilers could fairly easily be placed "inside" a small button, so that people who wanted to read them would have to push the button and read it in a message box. This might be a pain in the tuchas for full-on 'ho's.

Another notion is to have multiple styles of spoiler font, so that a person could set their user style sheet to allow, say, Lost spoilers to shine through, but not O.C.

This might be a pain in the tuchas for full-on 'ho's.

Yes. A major part of what I'm hearing from full-on hos (and I definitely include myself in that list) is that the spoiler zone has always been the place to read and write unrestricted, without extra coding, shit to click on, and (absolutely most importantly of all) having to worry all the time about "am I allowed to say that in this particular thread before the third Tuesday after the full moon". It's about being able your feet up on the coffee table after the in-laws leave, not about whether it's a button or a whitefont we have to manipulate.

Agreed. While I'd prefer to have this thread be an anything-goes-post-whatever-you've-heard area, it sounds like most of the whitefont workarounds would be more onerous than whitefont itself, and likely result in lots of accidental spoilage until people got used to the new method.

I've had a brainstorm-y idea that spoilers could fairly easily be placed "inside" a small button, so that people who wanted to read them would have to push the button and read it in a message box.

I appreciate and respect all your work, but that sounds like a major pain to use.

Plus, how would it work with threadsucking?

Plus, how would it work with threadsucking?

No difference. Anyway, I think the idea got through my tinfoil hat somehow. Can you still buy lead foil?

Lost - previous spoiler discussion

what do you all think about the notion that not all the people we've seen were on the plane. I think this can only refer to Hurley. What might this mean?

LN, Lost:

We have seen Jack's Dad.

Does that count?

LN (is it okay to call you that?) (also, those are my initials, so I keep wanting to respond when people post to you),

I have heard the same thing, though I wouldn't have chosen Hurley. Is he the only one we haven't seen on the plane in the crash scenes? Maybe it was wish fulfilment, and Shannon wished Boone there, or Sun wished Jin there.

That would suck.

Gus, nope that does not count. It refers to one of the 14.

Lee, oh yeah, LN works. more below:

Hurley is the only one we haven't seen on the plane and who isn't paired (e.g. Walt/Michael) - and is one of the few who doesn't have an ep planned (through 13 or 14).

He is also nosey as fuck and seems to have had a one on one conversation with the other 13.