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Creative approaches to spoiler warnings :-)

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Elana who?

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Dec 25, 1994, 2:10:55 AM12/25/94
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I just LOOOOOVE this thing! :-)


>]Bill Park (pa...@netcom.com) wrote:
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|| XXXXX X X X X X |
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|| SPOILER PLATE |
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Wonderfully creative way of handling spoilers, I tell ya! :-)

Yet... methinks that us rastb5-ers should NOT limit ourselves to
just this one creative example of spoiler artwork. The newsgroup
alt.ascii-art has plenty of cool examples of things we can use.

For instance, can you imagine a spoiler rose? Just upload a rose with the
word "spoiler" added to the leaves, and ya gots a creative new cool thing
to enjoy besides the spoiler post itself - and instead of a boring page of
blank space. .


On that note, I hereby submit a scene of a night sky featuring the B5 fandom
"jumpgate" symbol! :-)


**************************************************************************

. . . . . *
* . * . . * .
. . . .
. . | . .
. . . \ | / * . *
. \ | / .
. ------ <*> ------ . .
* . / | \
/ | \ * .
. . . | .
. . . .
* . . . * * .
* . . *
. . . . . . .
/\ /\ . . . . .
-----/ \/ \---------------------,----,------------------------/ \------
/ \___\ / . / / \
/______\| / . / / \
|| ( . ( /_______\
\ . \ | |
\ . \

***************************** ACME SPOILER SKY *****************************

And of course, if you are talking about a certain time in the midieval
past which in some way that relates to B5:

****************************************************************************
_ _ _ _ _
ACME ]-I-I-I-[
SPOILER \ ` ' /
CASTLE |' []
_----| |. '|
----|_----| | ' .|
_ _ _ _ _ _ _----| | ----| | [] |
]-I-I-I-I-[ ----| | | |. ` |
\ ` '_/ | / \ | | /^\|
[] `__| ^ / ^ \ ^ | |*||
|__ ,| / \ / ^ ^`\ / \ | ===|
___| ___ ,|__ / ^ /=_=_=_=\ ^ \ |, `_|
I_I__I_I__I_I (====(_________)_^___|____|____
\-\--|-|--/-/ | I [ ]__I I_I__|____I_I_|
|[] ` '|__ _ |_ _|`__ ._[ _-\--|-|--/-/
/ \ [] ` .| |-| |-| |-| |_| |_| |_| | [] [] |
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/ \ .. | ` . . `[] | - ` |
<===> .|=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| . / \
] []|` ` [] |` . . _________ . |- <===>
<===> ` ' | ' ||| | | ||| | [] <===>
\_/ -- | . ||| | | ||| | . ' \_/
./|' . . . .|. . .||||/|_______|\|||| /|. . . . .|\_
< > ' | |||||| |||||| | | >
(________________________________________________________)

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Let's see what the rest of you net-geniuses can come with here! :-)

-Elana

tom...@bga.com

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Dec 26, 1994, 3:01:06 AM12/26/94
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OK - here's another example of a spoiler plate...

(sigh... just realizing how many weeks we have to wait to use it!)

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88=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~= | ______| =_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=88
88._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._. | | |~--_ .^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.88
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88._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._. ._. ._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.88
88=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=88
88._.^._.^._.^._.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^._.^._.^._.^._.^._.88
88=~=_=~=_=~=_=~= SPOILER ALERT !! SPOILER ALERT !! =~=_=~=_=~=_=~=_=~=88
88._.^._.^._.^._.^._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.^._.^._.^._.^._.88
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Steve Freedkin

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Dec 27, 1994, 1:54:52 AM12/27/94
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Bravo, Elana ... especially the castle!

Happy new year

(Now I gotta figure out some artwork to add to my .sig)


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Jason Wong

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Dec 28, 1994, 7:40:00 PM12/28/94
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On 12-27-94 10:57, Tom...@bga.com writes:

To> OK - here's another example of a spoiler plate...

To> (sigh... just realizing how many weeks we have to wait to use it!)

[spoiler plate deleted because it was impossible to quote...]

That was NICE! Do I have permission to 'borrow' it and use it in my
posts?

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-montalvo m.a.

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Jan 4, 1995, 11:56:25 PM1/4/95
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In article <elanaD1...@netcom.com>, Elana who? <el...@netcom.com> wrote:
>I just LOOOOOVE this thing! :-)

While I liked your artwork, Elana, I disagree with the sentiment; I
prefer the 20-some blank or nearly blank lines, just because they're
so much faster to get past. Bill's Spoiler Plate was kinda cute
the first time, but now I find it rather annoying.

Maria

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