Other examples I've needed are commatize a number, right/left pad string or number, etc., etc..

Most of these things exist in the Q&A Section. For these sorts of things, I don't think that we need a new section - they either fall under the category of snippet or Q&A.

I think that simply reorganising the top menu bar would help new users more than adding even more categories. There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about guides for new users, new user ettiquette etc, but the main problem with all of that was education - new users need to know where to find info. We don't need to create extra things for this, but perhaps just oganise things a little differently.

Most users have grown accustomed to where to look for things, where to post things, how not to behave etc... but only through experience. I suggest something like the following (structure-wise, I know the design sucks...):

	Site tools	Getting help	(serious)? Stuff	Peer review	Fun
Monastery Gates	Super Search	Q & A	PerlMonks Discussion	Snippets	CUFP	Newest Nodes
My Homenode	Help	Tutorials	Meditations	Code	Obfu
Log out	Library	Seekers of Perl Wisdom	Perl News	Reviews	Poetry	Offering Plate

It should only require a change to a couple of html templates. Importantly, it places less of an emphasis on SOPW, showing that there may be answers already to the question. Also, it should reduce the number of "I need help with foo" posts to discussions and meditations.

Update: Ok, since this is some-way down the discussion, the indentation makes it look really stupid. But remember I'm talking about layout rather than design. If anyone else thinks this might be useful, we could perhaps start a new discussion and thrash out a design we all like. I don't know what vroom's schedule is like these days, but it should only be a 5 minute copy-and-paste - from my limited familiarity of Everything

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