# Unformatted Code Detector

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unformatted-code-detector/112773
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** official, unformatted-code-detector
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unformatted-code-detector/112773 "2019-03-28T04:21:55Z")
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### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unformatted-code-detector/112773/34 "2021-05-19T13:10:45Z")

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Oooh, I like this idea… but I just got a false positive:

> [@Discobot tutorial generating modmail](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-tutorial-generating-modmail/186896/2):
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> It’s still early for our relatively small site but this is looking promising. In the month prior to changing this, 18 folks did that tutorial step and 4 flagged it wrong. In the month+ since 17 have done that step and 0 got it wrong. The new text adds a few more details about why you might flag a post but I’m guessing it’s the very small change to the final sentence that’s doing most of the work: We like our discussions friendly, and we need your help to keep things civilized. If you see a…

It might have been the broken links that tripped it up? They’re just taken from the templating engine and look like: `[keep things civilized](%{guidelines_url})`. Or maybe the HTML `img` tag?

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