ELISHEVA:

Re your second bullet, "BTW it is ok to ask for help if you can't figure out why something won't compile. But let that be your question then and save the "my script won't do X" question for later."

I think we should adopt that! ++!

Re "3" Did you just volunteer to find some really bad nodes (beyond those that don't offer code) that never drew Janitorial attention? Why thank you very much!

Re 4: Candidates for "above the fold" seem to be pretty numerous:

  1. Think your problem through
  2. code tags
  3. Preview & fix, preview & fix, preview...
            ooops, now we gotta get to a link on markup
  4. Super Search

That seemslike an absolute minimum. OTOH, maybe I'm getting carried away with that list; how say others?

Or would an abbreviated TOC (maybe with with one line of info) for those and other important (if not quite "key") points be a good introduction, "above the fold?"

In reply to Re^2: RFC - How to ask... by ww
in thread RFC - How to ask... by ww

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