I thought something (maybe @willingc’s Python Help post?) was pinned up there last month, but I don’t see anything now. The screenshot at bottom is from today.
Due to attention on resolving an issue made more intense, in many instances, by anxiety about how to present the issue in English–which you may not speak even as well as you can program in Python, few people are going to read even a mildly intermediate How-To guide/post on their first visit. They came here for a different purpose.
A possible and proven remedy to the code formatting is to pin a post with a bold title like…
===>>>>> READ THIS BEFORE POSTING CODE <<<<<===
With a brief one-line introduction and no more than three How-To points of instruction. Just the one on backticks might be the workable limit. (Well… two actually, for code blocks and inline monospace.)
There is a plug-in to detect code text and pop up a message in the editor’s preview pane. I posted about it HERE earlier this month under this topic and @vbrozik posted a topic for it HERE.
We’re getting a lot of traffic on this theme, could @admins or @moderators or a TL4 (TL3?) user please consolidate these? Václav’s post might be the best place to tuck them, although chronological order could make more sense.
Plain vanilla out-of-the-box Discobot isn’t a coder and apparently doesn’t provide this module in his tutorial. It may be a switched feature like include_code_guide but I did the entire Discobot intro series recently and there’s no code guidance that I recall.
