A lot of Monks forget...

That would describe me. It's been awhile since I toasted my cookie file. I'd rather not go to great extremes of RTFM -- the frontpage becoming a FAQ seems a bit hostile -- but something more prominent for anonymonks might be good. Mentioning more prominently the tutorials' aspiration to become "an online textbook" would help. Maybe something like "if you're new to Perl, you may want to check out the Tutorials section, which contains both a gentle introduction to the language, and answers to frequently asked questions."

Bottom line -- you can encourage people to read FAQ's and tutorials either by making these things more accessible (as in well-organized and informative), or by making them afraid to ask questions. I'd rather see us do more of the former, since a lot of the work has (I think) already been done.

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