# Forum: catching badly formatted code posts

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/forum-catching-badly-formatted-code-posts/226>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/forum-catching-badly-formatted-code-posts/226 "2018-05-21T20:16:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/forum-catching-badly-formatted-code-posts/226/10 "2020-03-07T21:10:15Z")

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An unformatted code detection plugin still has never materialized, but the conversation continued. Somebody on the Discourse forums created a Clippy The Paperclip that follows around a user who is flagged for unformatted code. That wouldn’t work here, but it is funny.

> **[Catch and educate users posting code without properly formatting it](https://meta.discourse.org/t/catch-and-educate-users-posting-code-without-properly-formatting-it/67958/27)**
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> So I just did this for my site mostly as a joke , but it works well and it is effective (thus far) It doesn’t automatically catch the offenders, but when I (or any of the leaders) see it we set a tag on the post of “formatcode” Then this happens...

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