Potter book spoilers (no spoilers in this post)
I just want to go on the record RIGHT NOW saying that anyone who posts spoilers from book 7 without both hiding them (change your text color to white) and clearly labelling their post as one containing spoilers will suffer!!
I am going to be reading the book out-loud to my 2 sons. This is how we have each read all 6 of the previous books and even though we know this process will make the story unfold much slower for us than it would for all the rest of you we are committed to doing it this way. It will probably take us several weeks to get the book done and even though I think it will be impossible to avoid, I am going to try not to have the ending spoiled for me.
--Jason "Thanks in advance..." Evans
Text-coloring not really a good hiding mechanism
Although making the text white to hide spoilers does work for the original poster, and for the person who reads threads on the site, it does not work well when:
a) the original post is quoted (b/c the quote shows up with a darker blue background and the white text is clearly readable), or
b) a reader gets email notifications of post updates, as the email doesn't colorize the text either. (So any text appears in black, no matter the original color.)
So, the best thing is to assume any spoilers in your post will not be hidden, NOTE in advance when you're giving SPOILERS, and please try to keep them all in one, otherwise easily avoidable, thread.