in reply to Suggestion - Node Submission Validation Checking

You mean kind of like some "preview" feature, together with the message that, if things look weird, you should edit them? :-)

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Re^2: Suggestion - Node Submission Validation Checking
by desemondo (Hermit) on Dec 08, 2009 at 23:35 UTC
    haha, yes I get your point. Perhaps once the node submission preview button is clicked the node gets parsed through a basic handler, something like:

    my $paragraph_marker = '<p>'; my $break_marker = '<br>'; if ( $line_count > $x ){ return "that's a lot of text, maybe you should include some <readm +ore> tags"; } if ( $paragraph_count == 0 && $break_count == 0 && $line_count > $y){ return "you haven't formatted your post. It will be easier to + read if you separate your paragraphs with <p> tags."; }
    of course though, that'll take a bit of work to achieve, and it still won't stop the problem unless people read the warning message(s), which they don't seem to be doing currently...