# Helping things from being spoiled with the preview feature.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965>\
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**Created:** [November 16, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965 "2008-11-16T05:23:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/1 "2008-11-16T05:23:08Z")

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[I have pizza]See,[Hi, mom] this is how you [wipe your bottom]do it.

[Put it in brackets. Nothing that is in brackets will show up with the mouse over the title preview thing. Handy for when someone has a spoiler that they want to put in the OP…because 1. Spoiler tags don’t work for people previewing if they’re in the first post and 2. it beats doing that thing where you hit the enter key 400 times]

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/2 "2008-11-16T15:37:34Z")

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Beat you to it a long time ago. 🙂

> **[Spoiler test](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474479)**
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> \[testing whether this text within brackets shows up when the mouse pointer hovers over the thread title\] Is this the only thing I see?

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/3 "2008-11-17T00:13:23Z")

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Curse you, **liberallll**!

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/4 "2008-11-17T00:20:24Z")

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> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> Curse you, **liberallll**!

You’re not the first person to say that, and you won’t be the last. 😉

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/5 "2008-11-17T01:19:22Z")

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Wow, I’m not very good with being the first one to say something in this thread.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-things-from-being-spoiled-with-the-preview-feature/472965/6 "2008-11-18T01:09:04Z")

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There, there. **pats Idle Thoughts’s hand consolingly**