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Something that flags material from to a copyright touchy source - before it can be posted.

A popup similar to the one that says:

Before you may post this message, the following must be corrected:

• Could not find anybody named 'jhccabasc'

Something like:

The source of this article has asked FR to not post articles of their copyrighted materials.

• Please limit the body of the text to paraphrase or a brief "fair use" extract and post a link to the source article.

[new cruelty]

Perhaps this is not what you are referring to, but regarding your 2nd item: The source of this article has asked FR to not post articles of their copyrighted materials.

When posting articles from certain sources, the following message will be displayed:

Confirm Auto-Excerpt

Washington Post articles must be excerpted.

You may choose to Auto-Excerpt, which will attempt to excerpt the first paragraphs upto about 100 words. Or, you may choose to return to Edit the article yourself. Be sure to check "This is an excerpt." on the edit form to confirm your article is excerpted and to prevent this message from showing again.

[secretagent]

Something that flags material from to a copyright touchy source - before it can be posted

Agree.