# Mouseover Preview and Spoilers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-and-spoilers/481247>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 14, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-and-spoilers/481247 "2009-01-14T12:28:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Petek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/petek/32/1590_2.png) [@Petek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petek)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-and-spoilers/481247/1 "2009-01-14T12:28:07Z")

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I noticed that when you hover the mouse pointer over a thread, the preview displays spoilers (Example: the thread titled _The Big Lebowski_ in Cafe Society). Is this behavior intentional? Can it, or should it, be changed?

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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:** [January 14, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-and-spoilers/481247/2 "2009-01-14T14:06:36Z")

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It’s a known bug in the board software, and mentioned (in an aside so brief as to be virtually invisible) in the [Forum Rules sticky](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6769947&postcount=4) (scroll allllllllllllllll the way down) at the top of Cafe Society.

Many people who have been around for a while know about this, and will either add a bunch of returns to their post while writing an OP, or will break the OP into two posts so the spoiler isn’t in the post that will be visible with mouseover.

Welcome to the Boards – you’ll get used to the quirks (even the annoying ones) soon enough!

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**Author:** ![Petek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/petek/32/1590_2.png) [@Petek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petek)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-and-spoilers/481247/3 "2009-01-14T17:48:17Z")

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Thanks for the information!