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Add a "hide" button, that does exacly the same thing as the "spoiler" button.
Sounds redundant, but there is a reason behind it. The spoiler is quite nifty and gets "abused" for other things, than hiding spoilers. Hiding big images, for example. This is rather polite and I commend such behaviour, but this has a down side. I some cases you can't be sure any more, if there is a spoiler, an elaborate joke or an image hidden behind it. The use-case gets blurred.Background story, why I opened this thread (You can skip this paragraph.): I like to spoil me some story. But just today I read the content of a spoiler tag, without realizing, that it might actually contain spoilers. Duh! And it was a major spoiler! As I do read such spoilers (depending on the story), no harm was done. The author didn't do anything wrong either. He used the spoiler tag in a correct manner, and didn't encourage to read it. It was my curiosity, that was at "fault". But then I realized I would have read this spoiler any ways, even if didn't want to spoil the story for me, because it was just the natural flow of things. It's likely that others would do that, too.
Adding a "hide" or "hidden" tag would take care of this issue. One could also implement to modify the text on the "spoiler" toggle button (e.g. ), but this might be to much for the casual poster to use and he/she would just use it in its simple spoiler form anyway. Same would be true, for the other way around (e.g.[hide="spoiler"][/hide]), as spoilers would just be hidden behind the "hide" button, giving no warning at all, because some casual poster just can't be bothered with this. Offering bother the "spoiler" and the "hide" tag, would be the simplest solution to this.