I thought you were kidding when you posted this! If we can't kill the hover feature only on spoiler threads then we'll just have to avoid hovering over threads that could potentially ruin an entire season, especially if the thread has a "Spoilers" post icon. Hover is too worthwhile a feature to kill because it might reveal some spoilers.
For the record, I never asked for it's removal, only a way of avoid it showing what's beneath spoiler tags.
Trolling in the Help Desk, Listkeeper? You of all people should know where remarks like that belong. Thank you, Nick, for replacing the function. I know I appreciate it...there are some days it is very handy!
Hmm. What about a more obvious icon for posts with spoilers? That little square is easily dismissable. Maybe something more like: ??
Screws up the sizes of the rest of the columns. Not a fan of NSFW or as post icons for the same reason.