<p><em>Following on my previous question: <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1381/should-our-faq-include-information-about-answering-questions">Should our FAQ include information about answering questions</a>, and the subsequent discussion in the comments there, this question is intended to elicit discussion from community members with the goal being to develop a set of suggestions that can be linked to from the main site's FAQ.</em>  </p>

<p>The central question can be conceived of several ways:  </p>

<ul>
<li><strong>What advice should we provide a new user who is largely unfamiliar with Cross-Validated, but wants to help out answering questions here?</strong>  </li>
<li><strong>What constitutes a great answer on Cross-Validated?</strong>  </li>
<li><strong>To what ideal should our answers aspire?</strong>  </li>
</ul>

<p>etc.</p>
