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{{quote|''"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."''
|'''[[Voltaire (philosopher)|Voltaire]]'''}}
:''For advice and instructions on how to mark up spoilers, see [[All The Tropes:Style Guide/Spoilers|Style Guide/Spoilers]].''
▲{{quote|''"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."''|'''[[Voltaire (philosopher)|Voltaire]]'''}}
[[Spoiler|Spoilers]] are our stock-in-trade here at All The Tropes -- you can't talk about stories and plots without revealing the details of said stories and plots, which might ruin the experience for people who haven't yet had the chance to view that work. To combat this, we have the spoiler tag, markup <nowiki>{{spoiler|some text}}</nowiki>.
However, this in itself presents a problem. Virtually all examples are going to be spoilers to some extent, and we can't blank the entire wiki on the off chance that someone will be offended. One of the big draws of a site like this is simply browsing from one page to the next and absorbing the information therein, and that appeal is lessened if every interesting fact is lost to the fog of a spoiler tag. An example that reads something like this...
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