This activity, however personally annoying, is also one of the reasons PerlMonks has been so successful. It has not become cold and elitist (RTFM and so on).

As a newbie, you receive some personal suggestions from someone(s) with more experience on the proper ways of the Monastery and advice on what documents to read that will help avoid faux pas in the future. Then surprise surprise – there is usually also several helpful hints to help the OP with their problem. Sometimes this is in the form of code snippets, suggestions or even to the newbie's surprise requests for more information.

I can not think of a better way to encourage new Perl users to continue with Perl as a language, and PerlMonks as a valued resource.

I have been a newbie at everything I have tried at one time or another, and the ones I have become an oldbie at seem to be the ones where a helpful mentor has managed to guide me from my ignorant ways toward the path to enlightenment. As well as on occasion taking on the role of mentor.

You do have an excellent suggestion, that I wholeheartedly agree with – making a link easily available on the front page. Perhaps a NewPoster link with a small amount of information so as not to overwhelm a new person with all of the details, but enough to help them post a clear initial question.

Enjoy!
Dageek

In reply to Re: Monastery Gates Suggestion for Improvement by johndageek
in thread Monastery Gates Suggestion for Improvement by sasdrtx

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