at least once every 1 or 2 days, a new users comes along and posts a node that is horribly malformatted and gets either ignored, berated, or (wastefully) corrected.

my proposal is this: non-editable nodes should by default not be able to be posted without first previewing them at least once. this should be the only mode available to Anonymous Monks. regular users should have an option like 'Allow posting of non-editable nodes without previewing', which would be off by default (causing every root node to be previewed at least once by default).

since it could be turned off, it wouldn't be a hindrance to experienced site users, and since it doesn't change the actual content of the nodes, it is less intrusive than Corion's automatic code wrapping proposal.

so, what do you all think?

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