From a whitespace (BR/P) POV, I don't think it's unduly fair.

However, WRT to your point about badly formatted posts, the majority of them [badly formatted posts] that I've seen appear to be down to the inappropriate use/lack of CODE tags - which, AFAIK, aren't standard HTML markup.

Some posters do try and address the problem, by using PRE tags, the majority of which are then, to some degree, castigated for it - normally by monks that are better versed in the arts of posting &/or markup.

Such use [of PRE tags] is understandable, since the hint If you think you're going to use <pre> tags — don't! Use <code> tags instead!... is way off the bottom of the visible page on my browser (and I use quite a small font size - the line Posts may use any of the... is typically only partially visible at the bottom of the page).

Maybe a solution could be a browser popup window, that can be enabled or disabled in the monks home node (or per-session and the setting maintained via a cookie for AM), containing either (an expanded version of) the hints or possibly the editing page...

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

In reply to Re^3: Carriage return by Bloodnok
in thread Carriage return by siyverts

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