It would be great if we had a way to mark images/videos/links on a post as a spoiler.
Right now the closest thing to this is to mark them as NSFW or similar.
It would be great if we had a way to mark images/videos/links on a post as a spoiler.
Right now the closest thing to this is to mark them as NSFW or similar.
I think the thing that makes spoiler flair “special” is that it is intended to obscure the content. I have made flair for the communities I mod that are called “spoiler” but without the effect of blurring images for example, it isn’t really functioning like a normal spoiler tag would.
The use case for this is usually for entertainment-oriented things. For example, a community focused on a show like The Great British Bakeoff might want to have lots of memes/posts about the show and who got eliminated each week. However, if none of those meme images are obscured, then it spoils people that haven’t yet gotten to watch the episode. So, ideally, the spoiler flair on a post would blur the image until clicked on, just like the nsfw/nsfl blurring option now.
If we don’t want to make an additional attribute alongside nsfw/nsfl, then perhaps there can be special behavior for post flair named spoiler?
Looking through the issue list on Codeberg, I don’t see an issue for this yet, so I will go ahead and make one.
I quite like the idea of adding a blur behavior to flair named ‘Spoiler’ although that only works in English.
Perhaps in the communite management where flair is set up, flair needs an extra setting so that any flair can blur a post!