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is quite useful and we are always directing new users to it.
Can Discourse add a warning or pop up whenever a user it typing a new thread?
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If so, it should be mostly for lower trust levels, right? Unless it is relatively unobtrusive.
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I think we already receive related posts while typing a new post, it could be something similar in a special highlighted area.
Having a predefined template with an area for text and an area for code like below would help alleviate the excruciating pain of code that is not pasted inside the triple backticks:
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That is a tremendous idea @rafael.guerra 
If not a warning, at least the code snippets would be ok. This is definitely the most painful part.
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Does anyone have the admin rights on Discourse to implement this feature proposed by @rafael.guerra? Perhaps there is a plugin somewhere that we can use? I have no idea how Discourse features work.
You can go to Discourse’s Discourse to ask these questions, XD.
A quick search of the discourse on Discourse’s Discourse suggests that there are a couple of ways this type of feature could be implemented.
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The code-fences thing has been asked before:
and escalated to discourse on Discourse’s Meta Discourse:
I’ve not taken the time to figure out how to hack our custom themes as would be required.
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