I'm against required reads and accept/decline-like click-throughs. Sign posts won't prevent any boor from swashbuckling into our living room and yelling "what's time?". Behaviour of an individual towards a community is a social issue, and you can't solve social problems with technology. I'd rather link How (Not) To Ask A Question fifty more times than giving anybody the impression they're required to read and accept our "terms of trade".

I'm in favour, though, of a prominent note e.g. on SoPW along the lines

To ask for wisdom is wise, but it is unwise to ask without knowing how to. You will be redirected to How (Not) To Ask A Question if you show evidence that you didn't ask: I want to ask a question of the Perl Monks. Where do I start? Knowing how to ask is required knowledge for Seekers Of Perl Wisdom.

and I think it's more important to update the various textarea surroundings, for instance the preview page reads, below the preview/submit button

and that's all as for advice. The Perlmonks FAQ shows up on the fourth screenful below the page top (on a 1024x768 display with a reasonable font size); that's too far away.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: Methods For Better Questions by shmem
in thread Methods For Better Questions by madbombX

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.