Before posting, there are a couple of actions I usually do.
  1. Has the question/meditation/suggestion/algorithm been posted before?
    If so, it is quite disappointing for the author, and may result in some terse RTFM replies. If a similar node has been posted, refer to it. That way you are showing due dilligence in searching, and due credit to the original author.
  2. Is the subject something of general interest, or is it wildly off-topic, and tenuously Perl related?
    If I am not comfortable here, I tend to use the Chatterbox. Quite often I will find a monk with precisely the experience that I need to solve my problem - or I convince myself that I should be looking elsewhere than on Perlmonks for my answer. This sometimes helps me hone my ideas before posting a new rootnode.

The power of the Monastery is in its links, and in its people. Quite often, when a search fails to deliver, posting a question or a msg to the Chatterbox wakes one or more of the brethren up, who supply the necessary links (both on and off site).

In reply to Re: Get the best from monastery by rinceWind
in thread Get the best from monastery by artist

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