Well, if you ask for help, the answer might be a spoiler. Unless it's hardware related, very generalized, or something mundane like that, there's no gaurantee you'll be safe. That's my understanding on why they're grouped together and confined to one part of the board. I'd just suggest that everyone should have a very specific Title for the topic so no one wanders into the wrong question. "Enter at your own risk".
On another site Oblivion related site I saw a feature where you could mark small parts of your text as a spoiler and you have to mouse over the text to read that part. Don't want it spoiled? Don't mouse over the blacked-out parts. I'm not sure how it works or how easy it would be implement here but it might be worth looking into. I'll try to find the site again if anyone is interested.
Here is a link to the forum I was mentioning that had a good system to protect users from unwanted spoilers:
Another Forum (For spoiler example only) I'm not intending to support this other site in any way. I'm not even a member. I just found it to be an interesting solution and I'm relaying it here in the chance that it might somehow be implemented here (if possible) to avoid some of the problems mentioned above.
Scroll down to post number 7 to see what I'm talking about. Since I'm not a member I don't know how it works on the user end but I dug through the code and found that it works in the following way:
<span class="spoiler" onmouseover="this.style.color='#ffffff';" onmouseout="this.style.color=this.style.backgroundColor;">Test</span>
I think you just add something like [spoiler] Spoiler text to hide [/spoiler] to your post and the program converts it to the code above when it's time to display it. Basically, it matches the color of the font to the color of the text until you mouse over to reveal the 'secret' spoiler.
Hopefully this is useful to someone out there that runs this site or knows how to do the programming for this sort of thing.
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