It occurred to me recently that we have a fairly high number of infrequent occasional posters in the SoPW section. Many of these people aren't familiar with how the site works and every other month or so there'll be a handful of very long posts without <readmore></> tags.

Just wondering what (if any) validation is performed on new nodes that are submitted.

If there is an existing validation process it would be great to add in a "catcher" for nodes that have greater than "50|100|150?" number of lines of text. And return an appropriate "please use some <readmore></readmore> tags" message, etc.

Of course, if there is any concern regarding this catcher being a nuisance, we could also provide a button to override that logic in a 'yes i know what I'm doing' kind of way...

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