As is, once a post is solved it’s revealed in the name, but this means you can’t then try to guess already solved posts - only new ones. If we reveal the answer in a spoiler in the post body instead, the sub’s historical posts will remain playable for new players to practice.

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    1 month ago

    How about when solved make a spoiler and change the title to still name that song … Would that be closer to a solution?

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      1 month ago

      That would still leave the original problem.

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        1 month ago

        How about a “solutions” post containing all solutions as one comment each. This way the host of the song question could post the solution and perhaps a bit of trivia about the song. A simple title change to [Solved] and a permalink to the solution content in the solution.

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          1 month ago

          You mean one meta solution thread for all posts which would become unwieldy very quickly and I have no idea who would manage that, or do you mean one for each post?

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            1 month ago

            Somewhere in the middle of those ideas. Perhaps a weekly solutions thread. The idea is the solution isn’t just a spoiler and we don’t even need to look directly into the thread just a permalink from the song post to the solution comment. Come to think of it, I was just assuming there is a permalink to comment feature like on that previous site that shall not be named.

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              1 month ago

              Something like this But picture the topic and the thread is solutions for this week. I found my comment permalink by brute force, it’d be nice to have that available. I’ll have to look at the source.

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                1 month ago

                TBH, that sounds like much more work than I’m able to handle. So far, the best solution seems to be changing the title to [Solved} [Genre] and in the body of the post putting the title and artist (and maybe the highlighted lyrics) in a spoiler.

                For example, my Free Fallin post would have been

                [Solved][Rock]

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                Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty

                All the vampires, walkin’ through the valley Move west down Ventura Boulevard