The problem is that there is already such a wealth of information that exists on SO, that some of the beginner questions I had starting out never needed posting

The problem is that there is already such a wealth of information that exists on SO, that some of the beginner questions I had starting out never needed posting. So I can imagine a similar scenario for someone else, and hope that they do a little searching around before posting. Sometimes you need to use 2 or 3 tangentially related posts together to see the bigger picture of how the question you were going to ask relates to the problem you wanted to solve. I mean, learning has always been that kind of tortuous process. Maybe there needs to be a separate place on the site that's primarily help for newbies.