As someone who benefits more from answers to questions than actually answering them (I hope someday to change that and be more of a help than helped), I am grateful for both the opportunity to post questions in SoPW and to search Q&A.

We could all do a better job of utilizing the conventional resources (Google, Super Search, etc.), often finding the answer and negating the reason to post at all, but there are times when our question is SO specific that some of the more generic answers don't address the problem (one of the joys of TMTOWTDI).

One comment: I wish Super Search had it's own tutorial. What may be second nature or intuitive to more XP'd PMs, as someone relatively new, or just plain dense, I would probably find a 5-minute explanation helpful.

Many thanks to the patient monks that answer the same questions more than once.

In reply to Re: The Q&A section: Teach a man to fish. by bradcathey
in thread The Q&A section: Teach a man to fish. by davido

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