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I have a feeling there is an influx of new people on HN who do a lot of posting and voting before figuring out the values of HN. I'm probably guilty of this myself.

I think maybe an 'introduction' or 'rules' tab for newbies might be good. Not sure if this has been suggested before...

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These things already exist; the links are at the bottom of the page.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

They're too easily ignored. Maybe they should be posted monthly, like "Who's Hiring" threads.

The whole point is to deliver a larger signal to noise ratio - posting these every month would lower this, IMO.

Oh. My bad - never noticed. Maybe they'd do better at the top. Or as a link when you hit 'post' or 'reply'... Or perhaps its just me that has missed them.

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