Re^2: Put some of the posting guidelines directly above the posting form:

Not asking for a giant blob of boilerplate, just a couple lines reminding them to supply input data. Judging by what a lot of people post, it's fairly obvious they don't have a clue they're supposed to give us examples of input / output, and it's probably because the reminder is on a separate page rather than right above the submission box.

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Re^3: Put some of the posting guidelines directly above the posting form: by educated_foo (Vicar) on Dec 04, 2011 at 15:14 UTC
It will grow. You just want input/output. Next, someone will want the code to start with `"use strict;\nuse warnings;\n\n"`. Then someone will want a high-level problem description, or a list of what the OP has tried, or the output of `perl -V`, or some other random thing. What if input/output is superfluous or unhelpful? If you want to help someone, then help them. If not, then don't. Aggressive pestering wastes your time, and doesn't help anyone.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Put some of the posting guidelines directly above the posting form: by wfsp (Abbot) on Dec 05, 2011 at 10:44 UTC
educated_foo++ Your last paragraph should be included at the top of the page (bold, red, blinking etc.) when anyone replies. :-)	[reply]