r/TrueBlood•15 yr. ago

Spoiler Guide for /r/TrueBlood (How to use spoilers)

This subreddit is meant to be a safe place to read and talk about the TV series and books regardless of how many episodes or books you have read. The guide below is intended to help you understand and use "spoiler warnings" with r/TrueBlood.

There are two types of warnings:

Spoiler warnings in post titles
Spoiler covers in discussion text

Once a spoiler is warned about, it's your job as the reader to decide whether to read further.

Posts with "Spoilers!"

When browsing this subreddit you will see many posts with spoiler warnings explicitly written in the title. They may look similar to one of these examples:

Let's talk about this character [Spoilers!]
Spoiler talk, what do you all think about this
Predictions about the next book (Spoilers for book 5!!)
Episode Discussion - 3.01 " She's Not There" [TV Spoilers]

In the above examples you can see some are specific about a book or episode, and others could be spoilers for anything in the show or books. Take that warning to heart, because once a warning has been posted, any events covered under that warning can be posted without a cover.

Spoiler Cover Types

When there isn't a title-warning about spoilers, or when a comment is outside the scope of the posted warning, a post should use cover tags. There are three tags set up to cover spoiler information:

TV Spoilers are specific events that have been aired on the show. It doesn't matter if it aired 3 weeks ago or was shown live 3 seconds prior. TV spoilers are black.
Book Spoilers include any events in any of the books. Events in Book 6 that have not yet aired on TV are book spoilers. Events in the books that differ from what has aired on TV is a book spoiler. This includes speculation on what may happen in upcoming episodes based on what happened in the books. Speculation comments in threads marked "spoilers" still need covers! Book spoilers are maroon.

Events in the books that match past-aired TV events can be marked as either TV or Book Spoilers.

How to Read Covered Spoilers To read a covered spoiler, just mouse over the colored text. The spoiler text will turn white, allowing you to read it. Try this example below:

Put your cursor here

The coding has been tested it in Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, and Opera, and should work the same for most everyone. IE users may have problems with the coding; The trick used to create the safe spoilers does not work well with IE. If you mouseover in IE and wait a few seconds the pop-up title should contain the spoiler text. If you still don't see the spoiler in the pop-up, then you will need to use one of the other browsers. If you see a tagged spoiler in a comment replies or use a mobile device browser to read the subreddit you should be safe from the spoiler. It usually only shows the warning text in either case.

How to Make Spoiler Tag Covers

TV Spoilers look like this: TV Spoiler and are made this way:

[TV Spoiler](/s "your  text")

Book Spoilers look like this: Book Spoiler and are made this way:

[Book Spoiler](/b "your text")

Use the speculation syntax to cover up spoiler-type details or theories of what might be coming up in the books (for example: Jon's mother's identity).

The only difference between the types is the /s and /b is the color of the tag. The text in the [brackets] describes the spoiler, and the spoiler goes in the "quotes." You can use the description text to specify the episode or book you are referring to like this: Dead and Gone book spoiler, or you can use a space to have no description like the old tags:

Black Spoiler with no description:

[ ](/s "OMG You’ve just been spoileried!")

How to Make Long Covers

The spoiler cover tags do not work across multiple paragraphs. For example, this does not work:

[Ep4 TV Spoiler](/s "First part of a long spoiler. First part of a long spoiler. First part of a long spoiler. 
First part of a long spoiler. First part of a long spoiler.

Second part of a long spoiler. Second part of a long spoiler. Second part of a long spoiler. 
Second part of a long spoiler.")

To create a longer spoiler you must use a separate tag for each paragraph like this:

Ep4 TV Spoiler