I just checked at the Gates and on the SoPW page.

There is no ability to post at the Gates. There is on the SoPW page.

There are 6 links relevant to how to post here following the textarea on the SoPW page.

They all follow the textarea where any of us might enter our missive

As this suggestion appears to be about getting initiates to notice these items, I would suggest this information is also reformatted so the links fit neatly under the Add your question heading or even underneath the Title input field but before the textarea.

The existing layout of the information could stay

The problem seems to be some initiates are

• used to other forum formats where they don't have to concern themselves with layout
• quite possibly hoping for a quick fix to something and too rushed to be bothered to read the information that is there
• possibly not very well versed in English so not reading or understanding the information
• hitting the preview button and not looking at the result properly nor reading the information there
• possibly not familiar with HTML and markup. It is, after all, possible to do Perl without the Internet and HTML as prerequisites.
• not scrolling down much past the textarea once they have found it

The Monastery is not here to improve someone's English or HTML - that may occur as a side-effect but the aim is to improve their Perl.

Some initiates do take the trouble to read and understand what skill is required to make a post.

We might increase the success rate if we position the links so they are more noticeable

This is, of course, all despite the existence of a suitable link appearing below their preview when they first preview the post.

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