With Internet Explorer for Windows, hover the mouse cursor over anywhere in the black box region and triple-click, you’ll get all the text in the Spoiler box. With Internet Explorer for the Mac, hover the mouse cursor over anywhere in the black box region and quadruple-click, you’ll get all text in the Spoiler box.
And I personally think the colored text feature is WAY more annoyinger. 
For all the annoyances of Windows, I do love that there are so many ways to do things. I like variety.
Oh yeah - I forgot if you’re using IE for Windows 5.01 or later, mouse over and CTRL+Click once will select everything, but on the latest IE Mac version, you still gotta mouse over and quadruple-click.
And on Preview, apparently I also forgot to read Ogre’s post above, in which he already said this. But I’m posting anyway and you can’t stop me! HAHAHAHA!!!
No, because of the maximum length that vBulletin allows for a custom vBcode.
This tip for Opera users is also mentioned in the [url=“http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1956119#post1956119”]ATMB FAQ
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, which everyone should read.
One should also read the vBcode page that teaches you how to make a link. :o
ATMB FAQ
I, for one, like the spoiler boxes very much and I encourage others to use them when appropriate. “Spoiler space” is very much more irritating to me.
Another Opera user, who finds those spoiler boxes incredibly annoying. Mostly for those large posts, where switching to “user mode” (That Ctrl-G solution) takes several seconds to switch, and the spoilers end up a page or so away from where they were.
Of course, I’ve lately come to despise all those non-standard-HTML pages that are written specifically for a certain browser. They don’t do anything special that can’t be replicated in standard HTML, tends to take a lot longer to load up (And for someone on high-speed access, a page taking a long time to load up is really saying something; I feel sorry for anyone accessing those pages with a dial-up), and then doesn’t work right anyway. The spoiler boxes are just a minor annoyance, at least, there’s a work-around, not as bad as those places that love making other browsers break down…
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Tension breaker. Had to be done.[/spoiler]
“Very much more irritating?” I don’t know if that sounds like proper grammar to me! 
The spoiler boxes don’t bug me that much… I can highlight them, or skip over them as I choose.
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Click one time on the “S” in Spoiler
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Click the bottom Right corner of the spoiler box.
Just wanted to say “annoyinger” is a brilliant word. Long may it survive.
There’s another solution: press “reply with quote”; the message in the spoiler will show up.
And remember: vB features don’t annoy people. People annoy people.
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What if we combine them?