I'm a llama when it comes to Perl. But when it comes to helping people, I might as well state that I moderate a nice gaming forum, so I'm familiar with people asking questions that have such easy answers.

To boil everything down, I just try to follow the How to Ask Questions the Right Way coupled with the, "we don't do your homework," that other developer forums follow.

But yeah, I'd imagine that knowing how to find your own answers is much more valuable than knowing how to hit the Preview then Create buttons. Really, honestly, I use the Search feature here more than anything else. I can't stay at any website that doesn't have a decent search engine (barring my own defective forums search engine :-\ )

However, understanding how many people searching for answers function, it borders on pointless to even show them how. I can't tell you how often I've linked to a page that has the answer they're looking for and their somehow eyes glaze over when they hit the blue underlined portions.

Is it fair to stick a link to my site here?

Thanks for you patience.

In reply to Re: Is this the right way to learn? by SavannahLion
in thread Is this the right way to learn? by pg

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