I suppose that it might be nice to have a Mudcat FAQ, but I think most of the information is already here and relatively easy to find. If you look under "Mudcat Resources" on our links page, you will find guides to HTML and tune posting. If there are other threads that provide good guidelines for new Mudcatters, please add them to the "links" page.
It's nice to be helpful and welcoming to newcomers, but I think you can kill people with kindness - or at least frighten them badly - if you overwhelm them with words. Maybe it's better to let people explore a bit and find their own way.
Reminds me of an exhilerating experience I had in the Milan airport in November, something that was quite different from my many experiences of American airports. I rode a "moving sidewalk" - silently. There were no signs to tell me how to do it, and no monotone mechanical female voices in eleventeen languages to tell me to hold onto the handrail and step off at the end of the sidewalk.
Remember - Mudcat has been in existence for over three years, and we have not had a single life-threatening injury. Maybe it's OK for us to let people find their own way around, and we can give directions when asked.
-Joe Offer-