We now have 167 Monks level 6 and above (PotPieMan should be number 168 soon) who can send nodes to the (in)famous Nodes to consider list.

Most of the nodes on that list require editing rather than moving section or deleting. A lot of times adding <code> tags would be enough for the node to be OK.

So my suggestion is that before sending the node to the list where it will hang for a while, try /msg-ing the author (unless it's an AM of course!). Chances are that they are still around, and that they will clean-up the post before anybody else does. After all no-one likes to be ignored or even down-voted because of bad formatting. After a while, if nothing happens (probably because the poor monk is busy reading all the messages s/he received!) then you can send the node to the list.

This way the node is likely to be fixed earlier than if vroom (or one of the editors once the feature is in place) has to fix it, while sparing said vroom's time and the time of everybody reading the Nodes to consider list.

I know that that's what a lot of monks (most of them?) do, but I don't think it has ever been stated in a post, so with such a huge population of Friars and above, I thought it was worth mentionning.

In reply to Messaging authors of baddly formated posts by mirod

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