# Educate users about paragraphs - avoid "walls of text"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/educate-users-about-paragraphs-avoid-walls-of-text/65220>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 27, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/educate-users-about-paragraphs-avoid-walls-of-text/65220 "2017-06-27T18:43:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/educate-users-about-paragraphs-avoid-walls-of-text/65220/9 "2017-06-28T01:47:56Z")

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So the takeaway from that is, _potentially_ warn new users when they post a long topic as their first new topic.

As @Sam points out to avoid loss aversion you’d need to do it in the middle of composition too …

I like the concept and agree with it, but I think it is quite subtle and hard to get right without lots of false positives.

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