George's idea of a blog sub-site is an interesting one, but he nails the problem with using it for tutorials:

Allowing just anyone to write a howto / tutorial will result in a lot of low-quality unfinished entries

You need a decently large community of users to review these things - unlike a normal question, there's no OP to come back and tell you it didn't work. On an active, functioning site like Stack Overflow, that community is already there; on some sub-site ghetto, it wouldn't be. If your plan is to compete with WikiHow, then starting from square one without any of the tools that exist there or our own audience is... Pointless.

Fortunately, "HOWTO" articles fit very neatly into the Q&A model - so posting one in response to a question works just fine. If you can't find an existing question, ask one yourself.

If you're concerned that folks might get hung up on some part of this process, I am looking for suggestions on how to ensure such things are more effectively moderated...

George's idea of a blog sub-site is an interesting one, but he nails the problem with using it for tutorials:

Allowing just anyone to write a howto / tutorial will result in a lot of low-quality unfinished entries

You need a decently large community of users to review these things - unlike a normal question, there's no OP to come back and tell you it didn't work. On an active, functioning site like Stack Overflow, that community is already there; on some sub-site ghetto, it wouldn't be. If your plan is to compete with WikiHow, then starting from square one without any of the tools that exist there or our own audience is... Pointless.

Fortunately, "HOWTO" articles fit very neatly into the Q&A model - so posting one in response to a question works just fine. If you can't find an existing question, ask one yourself.

If you're concerned that folks might get hung up on some part of this process, I am looking for suggestions on how to ensure such things are more effectively moderated...

George's idea of a blog sub-site is an interesting one, but he nails the problem with using it for tutorials:

Allowing just anyone to write a howto / tutorial will result in a lot of low-quality unfinished entries

You need a decently large community of users to review these things - unlike a normal question, there's no OP to come back and tell you it didn't work. On an active, functioning site like Stack Overflow, that community is already there; on some sub-site ghetto, it wouldn't be. If your plan is to compete with WikiHow, then starting from square one without any of the tools that exist there or our own audience is... Pointless.

Fortunately, "HOWTO" articles fit very neatly into the Q&A model - so posting one in response to a question works just fine. If you can't find an existing question, ask one yourself.

If you're concerned that folks might get hung up on some part of this process, I am looking for suggestions on how to ensure such things are more effectively moderated...

George's idea of a blog sub-site is an interesting one, but he nails the problem with using it for tutorials:

Allowing just anyone to write a howto / tutorial will result in a lot of low-quality unfinished entries

You need a decently large community of users to review these things - unlike a normal question, there's no OP to come back and tell you it didn't work. On an active, functioning site like Stack Overflow, that community is already there; on some sub-site ghetto, it wouldn't be. If your plan is to compete with WikiHow, then starting from square one without any of the tools that exist there or our own audience is... Pointless.

Fortunately, "HOWTO" articles fit very neatly into the Q&A model - so posting one in response to a question works just fine. If you can't find an existing question, ask one yourself.

If you're concerned that folks might get hung up on some part of this process, I am looking for suggestions on how to ensure such things are more effectively moderated...