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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
This is line two of the message
Woul this make another form of spoiler hider?
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[spoiler]I’m surprised nobody opened the post to see how it was done.
{In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a test post that somebody didn’t comment on.)
Usually posts have to have 2 letters minimum. (Why two? I’ve wondered that myself. Although I can see assuming that a completely empty post is an error, as many email programs infuriatingly do, not recognizing that with information in the title that the post itself might be irrelevant.)
But that’s not the interesting part, for those enquiring minds. Easter egg is the modern term, I believe.[/spoiler]
You need to get out more.
OK, on quoting the original message, I see what you tried to do, but it doesn’t seem to have worked: I just get a dead space, not a link.
Actually, it worked as I wanted it to.
If you enabled it as a link, the link would be very hard to read, as spaces become %20, and the usable length would be one line.
Not sure what it would be good for, just a side effect that came out of the other discussion on “tag weirdness”
It’s like a spoiler, but less conspicous. People don’t even know it’s there until you tell them. Or they quote you.
Right now it’s an anomaly that’s looking for an application.
One curio is that words you hide are searchable.
[url=fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord]
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Changing the color is one way to make the spaces almost go away.
I think we used to have a way to get the exact background color match.
Anybody recall how that was done? F0F0F0 -type codes?
But what I used was the “hard space” code (used when spacing out old style dot pictures): &******#160;
Those hard spaces are tricky though, because they melt away when you preview or edit.