dmsilev, your customary host, usually keeps the substantive part of this post very simple-
- If you have a question about how dKos works I will do my best to answer it.
In that sense it is very similar to my Friday 11 pm efforts, Welcome New Users, though I have a tendency to self flagellate into a frenzy of unheeded advice which distracts from the simplicity of the concept.
I will attempt to follow dmsilev's format as a good fill in should, still I can hardly restrain myself from providing a link to my New Users Guide, a 13 part meta series, should you be suffering from insomnia.
Now on with the show.