Spoiler for certain user groups?

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Hi guys,

I’d like to have a spoiler that is user group privilege sensitive.

There are certain information (e.g. pharmaceutical drugs and doses, solutions, passwords for slack workspaces, contact information, etc, ) that should be only visible for the right eyes. Let’s say, I’d like to have a function to redact (black/blur out) portions of the whole forum. But the idea is, that most users still have access to the category.

What do you think about it?

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I wrote this, for some reason https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-hide-old-text?files=1 that I don’t quite remember. I don’t promise that it’ll be useful, or even work. I think it hides whole posts, though, and not just part of them.

The way that spoilers work the text is in the browser and blurred by css. I think the above plugin could be modified to hide just parts. Feel free to fork it or contact me if you’d like me to modify it for you.

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Thanks so far for the hint! I’ll keep an eye on that…

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This request doesn’t make any sense to me. Why not link to a post in a secure category, that only the proper groups have access to?

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The categories are for specific topics. I can’t / won’t mix these topics just for specific user groups. This makes no sense and will result in irritations due redundant and (maybe) wrong information.

Something like this would be much better:

[spoiler]This text will be blurred[/spoiler,user-group]

And in case, the group was deleted recently, the fallback should be:

  1. Only visible for admins (and authors)
  2. Admins and moderators should be notified to solve the conflict.
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At Discourse, we link to encrypted pms for this kind of thing. The PMs are treated as wikis. So we would have a regular topic:

Super secret information

You will need this when responding to @terraboss on Meta. Click to view

And then the link would take you to the encrypted PM. You can control access to the PM per-user, or per-group if you don’t need encryption.

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