basic questions

I've been thinking a lot about what the major hurdles are to learn Drupal. One obstacle I've encountered is even learning how to ask questions effectively in the forums and how to interact with the community. Someone posted this article How to Ask Questions from Hackers and it really helped me understand how community supported help systems work and what info I should include in my questions. However, the tone in that article is a little harsh and I think we could make a friendlier version that's more Drupal Community specific.

How would I be able to create a group in this account or have useful links? I am new here and my knowledge about how things are done in here is few. Hopefully somebody can help me out. Thanks.

My thought is to set up an idea exchange main topic with separate responses where questions from and tips for newbies can be posted, making the answers globally available. If we handle the topics individually they will be easily scanned and accessed for new ideas.

As a "newbie" to Drupal, I've already picked up numerous useful tips about Drupal from my interaction with the members of this group. There are many general forums; what I'm thinking of here is a simple local repository for questions that have a local flavor, or are directly related to this group's activity.

Examples: