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Update: 2 hikers die, 1 missing, on Tucson trails as temps spike to 115-plus
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Maybe you could tell a little story with this…
[details=hedgie]
[details=squirrel]
[details=hamster]
[details=Guinea pig]
[details=Pug]
[details=Monkey]
[details=Goldfish]
[details=ET]
[/details][/details][/details][/details][/details][/details][/details][/details]
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But I wanted to SEE your animated gif!
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Triggered!
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Yes, but not everyone does! 
See below! Er… above… er… between our posts!
This is a blurry poll:
Summary
- Yes, this is a poll
- No, its a hamster.
- Trick question, poles are longer.
- Lets get tacos.
0 voters
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Hence the spoiler blurring!
Oh for the love of god please don’t make it simpler to make polls.
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Why’s that?
- Because it narrows nuanced discussion down to a mere checkbox, a limited choice of replies, symptomatic of the lack of in-depth knowledge of the greater issues.
- Because it democratizes poll-building, something previously only available to those who had spent the time searching for that information.
- Because they’re visually annoying and disruptive blocks that attract a focus on the “comedy” option to the detriment of discussion.
- Tacos! Let’s get Tacos!
0 voters
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No, seriously, I can’t figure out how to see it. Some days (years?) my brain doesn’t work well.
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an undocumented vi emulation mode would be nice.
:wq
You’re not the only one. I just get a chunk of whitespace.
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It might not be you. I’ve found images with spoilers sometimes refuse to open for me. It seems to be pretty random.
Try opening a reply to @Mindysan33’s post, and then hit the “Quote whole post” button, and see if it shows up in the quoted reply.
It’s worked for me sometimes but I have no idea why.
…
Any thoughts @codinghorror?
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You forgot the, “Because when they build up in threads sometimes some users’ browsers crash or get the spins,” option.
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Yup, that worked for me, thanks!
Strangely, scrolling up from your post to hers, for a brief moment I saw the spoilerized gif, and then it disappeared. Maybe a ghost image from having it included in your post?
Maybe a ghost image from having it included in your post?
I don’t think it’s related. The “spoilerd” images reload when you scroll back to the post.
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You’re absolutely right. Perhaps I should I start another poll as the edit window has passed for it.
Or should I open a poll to see if I actually need to start another poll? Perhaps there too many polls in this thread already? If there was only some way of gauging public opinion…
Joking apart, yeah. That’s also a really valid reason.
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I rather enjoy making polls, but have tried to cut back since they seem to make some people’s browsers break. Maybe that’s been fixed now, though?
###Are polls still broken?
- No, damn you
- Yeah, it’s all good
- Some of the above
- None of the above
- All of the above
- Tacos sound really good right now.
0 voters
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Is this why we can’t have nice things? If I touch my scroll wheel in that whatever-it-is, it kills my browser window instantly.
[Edit: this is referring to a post that’s been deleted here but reincarnated in Japh’s new Games thread, not the polls. Looks like @codinghorror has fixed the browser-killer polls-- they cause me no problems now.]
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OTOH, it looks like it could be technically possible to implement Minesweeper within the BBS…
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