A new(er)? monk asked in the CB today how to post a new question. This user was greeted with the usual 'SoPW' response. The user happened to be using the Seekers of Perl Wisdom link in the navigation nodelet, and stated that the link to Seekers of Perl Wisdom was self referential.

The SoPW link contains an href directly to the posting form on the Seekers of Perl Wisdom page. If you, however, go directly to the top of that page, there is no mention "above the fold" where to go to post a question.

Would it make sense to have a hyperlink to the posting form at the top of the page that would be visible to users navigating directly to Seekers of Perl Wisdom (and possibly all of the posting-enabled pages)? Perhaps something as short as "Post a new question in $SECTION".

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