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by codesnooker » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:14 am
Hi Eric,

Right now I am using this forum as a part of my preparation for GMAT. I am trying to solve question daily from the each section, no matter someone has answered it or not. This helps me explore the different areas of difficulties faced by other.

Problem:
The problem is usually people gives answers openly. No wonder, when you know the answer, you can easily backtrack most of the problems and easily figured out the answer. So, open answers are ruining my preparation. I hope this might be the case with other also.

Solution:
Can you add a text box in the page of posting the question: labeled it as Answer. This should be optional for the user. If the user is asking some GMAT problem then he fill the answer of the question in this box.

Now when other person see the post, instead of displaying directly the answer can we show hyperlink to the answer. On clicking this hyperlink we can show the answer in the pop box or dialog box.

I hope there would be some PHP programmers on this forum who can easily embed this functionality. If this is possible, then it would really helps lot of users.

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by beatthegmat » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:02 pm
Are you aware of the spoilers feature? https://www.beatthegmat.com/new-spoilers-t5302.html

It's a great posting feature that allows you to hide text. Seems like people easily forget about this feature. We could use your help in evangelizing spoilers when you write your on questions!

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by codesnooker » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:14 pm
Ya Eric, I have seen this feature but unfortunately very people are using it or aware of it. Especially if we talk about new users, they would not know about this.

Adding special textbox for answer, will be more clear to the new users also

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by beatthegmat » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:57 am
Hey that's a cool suggestion--separate textbox for OA. Let me discuss with my technical person...
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by mitaliisrani » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:32 am
Hey,
I am a new member of Beat the gmat ...can somebody please connect me 2 a link as to how i can use the spoiler functions, insert a url basically all technical aspects

Many thanks