Re: On asking for help

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A truly excellent set of guidelines. Now, the challenge is how do we get people to read (and hopefully understand and follow) before they mindlessly post?

I wonder how feasible it is to remove a person's posting capability until they have read a particular node? A person coudl surf the Perlmonks site as much as they liked, but until they had a registered userid, and that userid was recorded as viewing the faq pages, they could not post any questions. I know this means "anonymous monks" could not post - or make replies - would that be an acceptable consequence?

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Re: Re: On asking for help by mr_leisure (Beadle) on Jan 09, 2001 at 14:00 UTC
Hmm, i may be wrong, but I don't think this was written in response to people "mindlessly posting" stuff. I think it was more of a concrete guideline for newbies (granted, who sometime don't read site FAQs etc). You should refrain from negative comments like that, as it can be misinterpreted as elitist, old-boys network, etc, etc. Just my one cent. Thanks Jim `if ($mr_leisure) { bow; }` [download] this is still not finished

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Re: Re: On asking for help
by mr_leisure (Beadle) on Jan 09, 2001 at 14:00 UTC


if ($mr_leisure) { bow; }
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this is still not finished

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