# can you read this OP?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523 "2004-07-30T00:17:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/1 "2004-07-30T00:17:02Z")

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Just testing if there is a new way to hide data.

The above text should be readable from the post listing page but not from within the thread.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/2 "2004-07-30T00:24:55Z")

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Sorry. I don’t think I can read your message.

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/3 "2004-07-30T00:35:52Z")

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Not sure what you’re trying to test here, but when I select the spoiler box, I see “Spoiler:” over and over in an arc down the box, with no text at the bottom.

However, if I select the entire box, copy it, and paste elsewhere, I see the repeated “Spoiler:” and then this sentence at the bottom: “Just testing if there is a new way to hide data,” to which the answer is apparently, “Not from anyone who’s ever used a computer before.”

**elmwood** , that was really cool.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/4 "2004-07-30T01:28:20Z")

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Sorry, I don’t speak **Shalmanese** …

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**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/5 "2004-07-30T12:49:14Z")

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Try a quote-spoiler box instead. Quotes, IIRC, aren’t visible in mouse-over.

> [@](#):
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> Like this. Much easier than a cascade.

Although I note that a spoiler-quote box seems to have the opposite effect from what was intended:[spoiler]

> [@](#):
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> Oops.

[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/6 "2004-07-30T18:19:31Z")

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**zut** , I think that the OP’s idea was text which would be visible on mouseover, but not within the thread. If that was his intention, then he appears to have succeeded… Though I have no idea why he would have wanted to do so.

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**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-read-this-op/257523/7 "2004-07-30T20:13:11Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> Just testing if there is a new way to hide data.

I can read the text fine. It may be a browser issue; I’m using Opera.