# How Do You Do a 'Whisper'? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 15, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989 "2003-06-15T09:20:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/1 "2003-06-15T09:20:41Z")
I have to admit, in the past couple of years or so that I have been posting on these boards, I have never had to use one. But I am still curious. How do you do a _“whisper”_? I don’t seem to have that option when I post. Just to take a wild guess, does it go like this: [WHISPER]Does it go like this?[/WHISPER] If not, how do you get that option? To those who answer my question, that you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/2 "2003-06-15T09:23:09Z")
You mean like this? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/3 "2003-06-15T09:26:30Z")
No, **Achernar**. The weird thing is I have only seen it used rarely on these boards anyways. It is mostly used for so-called _“spoilers”_. When you are not sure if someone wants to read the info you got, you put it is this solid box. And to read it, the person reading that thread has place his cursor at the top of the box, and scroll down while holding his mouse key down. As I said, I only rarely see it used here. Maybe this is how it works: [W]Is this how it works?[/W] If not, does anyone know what I am talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/4 "2003-06-15T09:28:28Z")
Test 3: Is this how it works? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/5 "2003-06-15T09:34:44Z")
Eureka!! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/6 "2003-06-15T09:38:27Z")
Well, for all those of you who don’t know how I did that, it goes like this: It goes like this. Trial and error. It sometimes works. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/7 "2003-06-15T09:42:49Z")
Well, apparently disabling the smiles doesn’t disable the Spoiler function like I thought. So, at the risk of posting too many times, here is what I did: {SPOILER}This is how I did it.{/SPOILER} Simply replace the braces with brackets. And in case cruel fate yet screws up another post for me, that is “[” then the word “SPOILER” then “]” followed by the info you wante hidden, and then “[”, “/” and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/8 "2003-06-15T09:46:22Z")
Ah okay. I’d never heard it called a whisper. Glad you figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/9 "2003-06-15T10:12:26Z")
Just testing ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/10 "2003-06-15T16:08:54Z")
[FAQ - technical issues - please read this BEFORE posting a question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103503) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/11 "2003-06-15T16:41:48Z")
There was at one time (last upgrade of vBB? the BBBoy software on the temp. board?) an option for something called “whisper” which was a coding thing. If it’s available in vBB, it’s been disabled due to abuse. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/12 "2003-06-15T17:45:25Z")
Whew. I’m relieved to see you’re not a convert to using that hard to read [sub]whisper whisper[/sub] . ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/13 "2003-06-17T00:23:22Z")
[sub]what’s this like?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/14 "2003-06-17T02:42:34Z")
Whenever you see something in a post and you want to know how it’s done, you can click on the quote button. This will show you the coding the poster used. Well, you can’t do that if the thread is closed and it will not show any text the quoted poster has quoted, but it will show you how to do spoilers and such. ---
**Author:** ![Pelleas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Pelleas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pelleas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/15 "2003-06-17T17:34:50Z")
[size=1]testing, testing[/size=1] ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-whisper/181989/16 "2003-06-24T13:13:42Z")
size = 1 Just a test