# Creating Spoilers

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**Created:** [January 28, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-spoilers/679931 "2014-01-28T07:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-spoilers/679931/6 "2014-01-28T09:52:57Z")

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FYI,

I made a couple of posts above trying to use aceplace57’s tip but I screwed it up because I changed:

> [@Why do mountain goats climb mountains?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-mountain-goats-climb-mountains/679937/1):
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> Thank you both!

to:

]SPOILER=Lazlo;17053112]Thank you both!]/SPOILER]

Unfortunately, that didn’t work. I had to change it instead to:

]SPOILER]Thank you both!]/SPOILER]

In other words, I had to remove the portion of the code that read "=Lazlo;17053112]’ before it would work.

But it’s a very nice technique and probably worth a mention somewhere prominent.

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