Maybe a good check to add would be: 
if(($reputatiuon < 50 )||( $isAnonymousMonk)){
  #check to apply auto CODE tag formatting
}

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Monks w/ more than 50 reputation points should know how to use code tags and deserve to be flamed if they don't. This check would prevent those of us who know better from having things we don't want code taged to be auto-code-tagged by mistake.

The "auto-code-tag" process should also alert the user that their post was auto-code-tagged and advise them how to use code tags in the future.

In reply to RE: Automatic CODE-tag creation (Prototype) by lhoward
in thread Automatic CODE-tag creation (Prototype) by Corion

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