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Allow users to hide large block of code by default

I often come across questions that have little blurbs followed by massive blocks of code, and having those blocks out of sight by default would make answers a lot easier to scan through. IRC does this by using various pastebins; however, it's more critical to take the code out-of-band on IRC because it's so synchronous. A jQuery-hide-this-really-large-code-block-by-default directive could go a long way.

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    anonymousanonymous shared this idea  ·   ·  Admin →
    declined  ·  codinghorrorcodinghorror responded  · 

    we don’t intend for people to regularly post GIANT code blocks; not that kind of site

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      • jcoehoornjcoehoorn commented  · 

        Actually, now that I think about it the original may have been declined, so maybe this is the proper place.

      • jcoehoornjcoehoorn commented  · 

        Here here!

        It'd be real simple to fix by just changing the style applied to code divs, as well.
        But I have no votes to give at the moment, and this is a duplicate (no link handy). If you want to see it happen then search for the original and add your support to it.

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