# Make "Please read" post a pop up in new threads

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** discourse\
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837 "2022-02-21T11:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/1 "2022-02-21T11:39:49Z")

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The post

> [@Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757):
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> Welcome to the Julia Discourse! We are enthusiastic about helping Julia programmers, both beginner and experienced. This public service announcement (PSA) outlines best practices when asking for help. Following these points makes it easier for us to help you and more likely you’ll get a prompt, useful answer. Keywords are highlighted to make it easier to refer to specific points. Choose a descriptive title that captures the key part of your question, eg “plots with multiple axes” instead of …

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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**Author:** ![DNF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dnf/32/10191_2.png) [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/2 "2022-02-21T14:07:28Z")

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If so, it should be mostly for lower trust levels, right? Unless it is relatively unobtrusive.

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/3 "2022-02-21T14:08:45Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/4 "2022-02-21T16:50:46Z")

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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:

 ![Discourse_create_new_topic_template](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/6/0/60b9fb197728bbd548beb14a09e9afe81a79ed60.png)

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/5 "2022-02-21T20:39:40Z")

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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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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/6 "2022-02-24T11:01:31Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Henrique\_Becker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrique_becker/32/15443_2.png) [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/7 "2022-02-24T13:31:09Z")

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You can go to [Discourse’s Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/) to ask these questions, XD.

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/8 "2022-02-24T13:37:54Z")

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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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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-please-read-post-a-pop-up-in-new-threads/76837/9 "2022-02-24T14:32:34Z")

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The code-fences thing has been asked before:

> [@Better editor placeholder text](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/better-editor-placeholder-text/62750):
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> In the Rstudio discourse, when I try to write a new post it shows this helpful snipper. Perhaps we just need to set this up

and escalated to discourse on Discourse’s Meta Discourse:

> **[New lines in the composer's reply placeholder?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-lines-in-the-composers-reply-placeholder/193451)**
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> Apparently the board for the R language uses a composer placeholder that helpfully includes an example of a \`\`\` code fence. This would also be a helpful hint for our language board, but I couldn’t figure out how they’re doing it. I tried putting...

I’ve not taken the time to figure out how to hack our custom themes as would be required.