- There was a discussion here:
users don't use code tags - AutoHotkey Community
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42814
- The first image here was a good start:
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
https://imgur.com/a/u1XLD
- I'd have a series of 4 images in 1. The text of some code with code tags, and what it looks like submitted. The same text without code, and what it looks like submitted.
- This is to: help people *notice* the concept of code tags, and why it's beneficial. To help draw their attention to the issue, and to explain it simply.
- If you tell me that it's easy to do XYZ, but I've never wanted to do XYZ, I'll forget how to do XYZ. People need not only to know how to use code tags, but to be motivated to do so.
- If you really wanted some action, you could force users to complete a sort of CAPTCHA, before they could submit their first post, whereby they'd have to edit some text to add code tags to it.
- I myself was unsure about 'c' tags. I saw them once, and had to wait ages until I saw them again so that I could link someone to ask how to use them. Plus I looked at the html first to try and figure it out for myself.
- So, even when I wanted to find out how to use something similar to code tags, it wasn't easy.
- Also ... there could be a clear HELP option somewhere on the 'Full Editor & Preview'. With tips/*images* like these.
- Problems like these, education problems, you have to keep thinking and tweaking until you get it right.