It would be helpful to be able to fix up other peoples posts when they have not use the pre-formatted text when asking for help.
I see that some people have the permission to do these edits.
Would you be willing to allow me have that permission as well?
That is a power you can get via Trust Levels:
Although, for the people with a life, it might not be reachable 
I am at Forum level 3. Should i be able to edit another user’s post at level 3?
Edit: I think I would need level 4 to do the edits and that is a manual promotion from the description.
Teach a person to properly format their posts and they will create useful posts for life. Give them properly formatted post and they will continue to make poorly formatted posts with images or mangled lines from logs. It would be better to provide a like to something along the following lines:
Here is a properly formatted snippet using the </> button (or bracketing the text with triple back-quotes):
% journalctl -b -p 2 | tail
Stack trace of thread 195481:
#0 0x00007fe7dc52cb4d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x10ab4d)
#1 0x00007fe7e5b067bd g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb17bd)
#2 0x00007fe7e5a7c13b g_async_queue_pop_intern_unlocked (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x2713b)
#3 0x00007fe7e5ae15d3 g_thread_pool_spawn_thread (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8c5d3)
#4 0x00007fe7e5adf9f3 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8a9f3)
#5 0x00007fe7dc4ae947 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8c947)
#6 0x00007fe7dc534860 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x112860)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Oct 22 12:38:27 cerberus abrt-notification[202077]: Process 195470 (emacs-28.3) crashed in Fdescribe_buffer_bindings.cold()
is properly formatted. The following examples are badly formatted:
Quoted text using the " button or a > at the start of the line:
% journalctl -b -p 2 | tail
Stack trace of thread 195481:
#0 0x00007fe7dc52cb4d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x10ab4d)
#1 0x00007fe7e5b067bd g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb17bd)
#2 0x00007fe7e5a7c13b g_async_queue_pop_intern_unlocked (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x2713b)
#3 0x00007fe7e5ae15d3 g_thread_pool_spawn_thread (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8c5d3)
#4 0x00007fe7e5adf9f3 g_thread_proxy (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8a9f3)
#5 0x00007fe7dc4ae947 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8c947)
#6 0x00007fe7dc534860 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x112860)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Oct 22 12:38:27 cerberus abrt-notification[202077]: Process 195470 (emacs-28.3) crashed in Fdescribe_buffer_bindings.cold()
An image that fails to include the command that generated the text, is hard to read on a laptop, and makes it impossible to include a text snipped in a response:
Note that many images truncate lines and omit important information.
Automate this and save everyone’s time:
The unformatted code detector should be helpful, but there are also problems with text content pasted as images. The latter needs to educate users to the benefits of text for searching and indexing as well as making it easier to quote fragments of text.
Detecting image tags should be similar to detecting code, so the linked plugin can be adapted to display a warning limited to a specific forum category (Ask Fedora) or a specific trust level (TL0-TL1) that recommends to copy-paste the error messages and wrap them as quoted or preformatted text.
On other sites, I’ve found that detector to trigger falsely enough to be annoying.
For what it’s worth, this is configurable — we could make it available to people at TL3.
Or, Barry, I think you’d be a fine candidate for bumping to TL4, if you want.
A post was split to a new topic: Should we enable the unformatted-code-detection add-on?
Thank you. An you bump me to 4 please?
We do that all the time, but there are cases where we would also like to make progress on the issue at hand.
