# Catch and educate users posting code without properly formatting it **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/catch-and-educate-users-posting-code-without-properly-formatting-it/67958 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [August 13, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catch-and-educate-users-posting-code-without-properly-formatting-it/67958 "2017-08-13T09:29:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Sujan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sujan/32/70979_2.png) [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan) #### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catch-and-educate-users-posting-code-without-properly-formatting-it/67958/2 "2017-08-13T09:30:46Z")
Here are my Canned Replies to handle this manually, that could be used as starters for the text people are shown: > [@Better "Format your code" canned replies?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-format-your-code-canned-replies/67867): > > These are my two “Canned Replies” I use trying to get people to format their code as “Preformatted text” when they post code snippets, error messages or command line output. I use these a lot: If I already changed their post via my moderator powers: I changed your post to format your code or error message correctly. Please use the \ button above the post input field to format your code or error message or wrap it in ``` (“code fences”) manually. This will make sure your text is readable a… And some elaborate explanations of how to post (code) on SO: [https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22189/142000](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22189/142000) [https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/formatting](https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/formatting) [https://meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help](https://meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help) Anyone know where to find anything about the feature @codinghorror mentioned? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catch-and-educate-users-posting-code-without-properly-formatting-it/67958)._