What can you do to help? As a start, please don't submit hints on any of the following: show the character palette, option-click Finder menus, Finder screen zoom effect, super slow-motion folder opening effects, return the Happy Mac to the startup screen, pop-up folders in the Finder toolbar, enable Finder sound effects, create sliding Finder drawers, Get Info vs. Show Inspector, and view the system prefs in alphabetical order. I have received each of the above no fewer than five times. For some odd reason, the character palette hint is especially popular, with at least 15 submissions!
Read the rest of the article for some tips on searching previous hints to determine if your submission might be a duplicate...
We've already run over 150 Jaguar hints, so it's possible what you're submitting has already been published. Take a moment to search postings made since August 24th using the Advanced Search page. Enter 2002-08-24 as the start date and the current date as the end date. Please don't forget the end date or you'll throw an unneeded extra load on the MySQL server due to a bug in the code (you'll get all 2,000+ articles returned!). If you include keywords, keep them simple and use only one at a time (try "Mail" instead of "change icons in Mail") along with the date restriction.
Although this may sound like whining, that's not the intent -- I'm learning as much as everyone else from these hints, and I'd like to make sure I have as much time as possible to focus on publishing the new information. You can help by taking a quick second to see if the hint you're about to submit has been previously published.
Thanks!
-rob.

