# Mandatory onboarding training for code formatting?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mandatory-onboarding-training-for-code-formatting/245036
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mandatory-onboarding-training-for-code-formatting/245036 "2022-11-09T20:04:04Z")
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### Author: ![BryanV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bryanv/32/226479_2.png) [@BryanV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BryanV)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mandatory-onboarding-training-for-code-formatting/245036/1 "2022-11-09T20:04:05Z")

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Hi, I run [https://discourse.bokeh.org](https://discourse.bokeh.org) and also frequent [https://discuss.python.org](https://discuss.python.org) often. In both places, there is a pretty terrible issue with new users not formatting code in their first posts. There are typically several posts _per day_ on the main Python forum where users need to be corrected. \[1\] This is huge, constant drain on many people’s time.

Would it be possible to have mandatory onboarding flows, before a new users is allowed to make a first post? I am thinking explicitly of a flow where the user is presented with how to accomplish code formatting, and then is tasked with manually reproducing 2-3 lines of formatted code. They have to complete this successfully before being allowed to post.

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1. This is an especially pernicious problem for Python, since indentation is significant.

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