OK, As I mentioned here, we should have an FAQ section - but since I am way too familiar with the site to know what areas are (gasp!) less than inguitive, I am going to ask people for help in this reguard.

Please submit things you think should be covered in an FAQ for this site - and either myself or someone else who knows the answer will provide it. I will then take the wealth of knoledge we accumulate and make it into an FAQ page for easy reading.

A quick peruse of the chatterbox thread gives the following FAQ type questions...

How do I submit a problem?
How do I submit an answer?
Why is the problem still showing unsolved when there are correct answers in the comments?
How do I format my solution/comment/problem? (probably a link to the HTML forum would be sufficient here)
Why shouldn't I post problems in the chatterbox or forums?

I think it would also be useful to make some comment as to the types of problems you wish to see submitted for posting. For example, I only just found out that you'd taken a policy decision to TD lateral thinking problems.

>> I think it would also be useful to make some comment as to the types of problems you wish to see submitted for posting. For example, I only just found out that you'd taken a policy decision to TD lateral thinking problems.

One problem is that it is not usually a blanket "policy," but rather the consensus of the currently active Journeymen and Scholars. Anothr problem is that there are at least three types of "banned" problems -- those which we've decided are not approriate for Flooble, those which too closely duplicate puzzles already on the site, and those whose type we've recently been getting a glut of, and the regulars are getting a little tired of.

In most cases, the disqualification is done on an individual basis, and there is often not a clear consensus as to whether it should be banned, or why.

Here's a few more. If they don't seem frequently asked, that's because I can't think of many more.

How long do we stay logged on?
How often are problems posted?
How many problems are rejected?
What is the objective of this site?
What's the rest of Flooble about, besides perplexus?
What do QW, TD, and TU all mean?
Why is the power to change category withheld from students?
What are the policies on posting unofficial solutions and other comments? Does it matter whether we repeat a solution or anything?

There - I promised I'd get to it eventually :)

Check it out here

Good catch :)

You're not an editor for a living, are you?

There is a check it out here link above, in addition to FAQ on the main page.

I would recommend making the questions in a larger font and in a more contrasting color. Right now they are hard to read, and if you don't know the question the answer doesn't help much.

Something that could be added to the "Ooh! Ooh! I know the solution - how do I post it?" query - no, you do not gain any "points" for answering correctly, or first, nor will it raise your rank. I think a lot of people, including myself, had that question at first. Might also be the reason that some questions have forty-two identical solutions all lined up one after the other...

Yes, we wish that could be implemented so we don't just see the same solution over and over and over with no explanation, but levik hasn't agreed to that. :D

O I know this is a bit foolish but i just found out today that levik responds to the petitions we send him. D'oh Anyways in the faq it could say "Why haven't i recieved and answer to my petition?" and then it would say "This is because either Levik has yet to look at it or you have not clicked the "see my petitions button"(or something like that)

Somebody's put a fake email into the system. I added a "feature" that will email any person whose petition I reply to with a link directly to where they can view the answer.

I'm not sure i want to put anything petition-related in a FAQ, since most people don't really need to post petitions - they have questions that belong in the forums.