Hi monks, Greets. I am a user of perlmonks since Sep 2008. Perlmonks is really great. But most of the time I am seeing post that is not formatted well and a lot of replies to that node to read the formatting tips.

I think there are moderators to moderate nodes. What I fell is, why can't the moderators send a message to the user asking them to format it? or if the post is not formatted don't approve it?

By doing like this we can avoid lot of post with ill formatting and the replies to format them.

Another way is to have a default formatting. If the formatting is not done, then the moderators can apply some default formatting. This is my suggestion to avoid nodes which are ill formatted

In reply to Formatting Tips by lakshmananindia

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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