What about Munch’s point? Should there be some standard about ensuring that people know what’s in the box? Is it a joke? Is it a bad word? Is it a real spoiler? Is it a spoiler but for something other than the subject of the thread title?
No. It’s fine the way it is.
I vote annoyance. But as annoyances go around here, it doesn’t even crack the top 100. It’s 90 places behind Braaaains in every zombie thread.
“My top 100 SDMB annoyances” is a fun thread to think about. It could wind up being the longest thread we’ve ever done.
Ideally, it would only be a hundred posts. 
The two click rule applies…I think you can put a not safe for work link in a spoiler box and be ok under current rules. I’d say if you click a spoiler box, you assume the risk of whatever is inside…and I think you’re making much ado about nothing here.
But why make people take such an unnecessary risk for trivial reasons? Why not require a specific explanation or warning of the contents?
Nobody is making anyone click spoiler boxes. If it’s too risky, just don’t click. We do not need more rules…especially trivial rules…around here.
If you want to label your spoiler boxes with warnings or whatever, great, go ahead, more power to you. I see no reason to make it a rule.
I’d just quit clickingNothing to see hereWonder how many I can do?You must hate me by now.
I do see spoilers as a good way to let the reader digest a joke before reading the punchline.
Oh, and Don’t click my previous post. It’s a waste of time.
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Wouldn’t work. There are more than than a hundred posters here. 
There’s nothing wrong with more than one tool in a toolbox. Besides, a very useful aspect of the spoiler is to collapse a large chunk of a post if the writer suspects most are only interested in a few paragraphs outside of the spoiler, but the nitty-gritty details are easily accessed through the spoiler.
Are they worse than invisible text?
You bastard!
I guess that works if you’ve got enough spaces. But, I can see your whole post on one page as it is. My eyes will inadvertently look for the answer whether I want them to or not. At least I have to conscientiously click on the button to see the punchline.
I apologize,** Siam Sam**. 
I just rarely click on any spoilers, like I said, so half the jokes are lost on me anyway.
But what I’d like in TV shows/movies/books, when possible, to have some idea of what kind of spoiler it is. Like, if I’ve seen all of Season 1 & 2 and it is a Season 2 spoiler, let me know. Same as if it’s a Season 4 spoiler. That way I know if it’s safe to click on it.
This is a good suggestion. I think that it would be a good way to distinguish – use invisible text for non-spoilers and use spoiler boxes only for spoilers.
But it’s only a joke-why the need to hide the punchline at all? When you tell jokes to a group of your friends, do you leave off the punchline and hand them a folded piece of paper with the punchline written inside, so they won’t have to know it if they don’t want to? No-what you do is pause slightly then tell the punchline to one and all.
That’s problematic. Why? Invisible text has no indication of its presence.