A lot of newcomers to perlmonks don't seem to know about the <code> tag. How about adding a check in the posting module so that if 1) a post looks like it contains perl code, but 2) it doesn't contain any <code> tags, then the user is either forced to edit the post or check a box affirming that the post is correctly formatted. This would help reduce the number of considered nodes.

The key would be coming up with a good perl code recognizer. I'm sure there are some pretty sophisticated ways of doing this, and I'd be very interested in seeing how it could be done using advanced CS/machine learning/statistical methods, but perhaps something as simple as the following would suffice (at least initially): 

sub contains_perl {
  $_[0] =~ m/[\$@%]\w/;
}

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Other factors that could be taken into consideration include: I'm relatively new here so perhaps this has been thought of/tried before. Comments?

In reply to newbies, <code> tags and recognizing perl by pc88mxer

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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