The purpose of rot13 is hiding of spoilers. An improvement over current situation should be in methods for hiding spoilers, not in methods for managing rot13, which is a lost purpose. (I realize the post applies to use of rot13 alternative on arbitrary sites, but that particular conversation shouldn’t be on LW.)
What is needed is support for spoiler markup and hidden-until-activated rendering. This is how it’s implemented as an extension to Markdown on Stack Exchange.
I agree that site-specific solutions are superior (if they are actually implemented). I agree that considering this, my original post was quite off-topic. Fortunately, my original off-topic thread about a proposed general solution was hijacked into an on-topic conversation about the best LW-specific solution. I think satt and Misha gave a quite acceptable temporary solution that would deserve some more visibility. Meanwhile, HonoreDB implemented my proposal (big thanks, HonoreDB!). So everything turned out fine.
The purpose of rot13 is hiding of spoilers. An improvement over current situation should be in methods for hiding spoilers, not in methods for managing rot13, which is a lost purpose. (I realize the post applies to use of rot13 alternative on arbitrary sites, but that particular conversation shouldn’t be on LW.)
What is needed is support for spoiler markup and hidden-until-activated rendering. This is how it’s implemented as an extension to Markdown on Stack Exchange.
Seconded. Although I’d say discussion of rot13 alternatives is relevant to LW-Meta until the site itself supports proper spoilers.
I agree that site-specific solutions are superior (if they are actually implemented). I agree that considering this, my original post was quite off-topic. Fortunately, my original off-topic thread about a proposed general solution was hijacked into an on-topic conversation about the best LW-specific solution. I think satt and Misha gave a quite acceptable temporary solution that would deserve some more visibility. Meanwhile, HonoreDB implemented my proposal (big thanks, HonoreDB!). So everything turned out fine.
It’s done in this thread.