Three days belated 'grats on the rankage, Al. This was absolutely necessary.
My thoughts:
Make sure to clearly mark where the spoiler begins and ends if your going to make it the same color as the board. If it fades in to the background and isn't marked, it's impossible to tell whether there's something there or not without highlighting it. As Shashi pointed out, the
<font color="black" style="background:black">SPOILERS</font>
code that produces this kind of marker spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilers let's everyone know there's something to avoid.
In any case, if you change the color of the font in the graphical editor before you switch to the HTML editor, the <font> tags will already be set up and all you have to do is add 'style="background:*color matching the text*"' in the tag in the HTML editor (no asterisks of course). Makes things easier on you.
As Ghost pointed out, merely changing the color of the text is not enough, because the color of the boards changes at times. You need to add your own same color background.
Finally, if you're going to be marking spoilers, be specific about what part of the show you're going to be spoiling. Tell what show the spoiler is from if it can't be inferred from context, and tell how far in the show the spoiler occurs. If you just mark something as "Spoilers," I have no clue what show it's from and whether I'm supposed to have seen it or not already. Therefore I don't know if the warning applies to me or not, and I may just get spoiled if I'm not careful enough. Here's an example:
Bleach SPOILERS in episode 115: I haven't seen that far so there's nothing to write here, but you get the point. END SPOILER
Be considerate; don't be lazy.
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