[wp-forums] found it

James Huff macmanx at gmail.com
Sat Aug 14 22:02:51 UTC 2010


+2 for this

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On Aug 14, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Rich Pedley <elfin at elfden.co.uk> wrote:

> On 14/08/2010 22:02, James Huff wrote:
>> I don't think the code was active, it was just filtered as a
>> warning by AVG.
>> 
>> I'd be concerned about filtering.  You know the old saying, once
>> you filter the bad stuff, you filter the good stuff too.  If we
>> start filtering things like "eval(" we'll be unintentionally
>> filtering users who have a legitimate reason for posting something
>> like that.
>> 
>> As suggested by Samuel on that topic, I think we need to be
>> stricter about simply removing pasted code and referring users to
>> the pastebin.
> 
> Small snippets of code are fine, but to how many lines would you say is ok to post? 20, 30?
> 
> Providing of course they use `...` for the code would it be possible to add an automatic check, and reject the post if it exceeds the value?
> 
> Rich
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