There have been cases from time to time when new users post programming questions on Meta SO. As a new user myself once, it is often the case that the only thing that matters is the question itself, and there is no real perception or importance given to rep. So not much attention is paid to the FAQs unless pointed out in the comments. But this is often followed by heavy downvoting and the question being closed. Hence a preventive suggestion would be to have a message that questions in Meta are about SO itself and programming related questions should go to SO. This should be only there when a user posts his first question.
This might prevent cases where people ask questions in Meta SO, it gets closed as off-topic and it never gets posted on SO sometimes happens to good questions as well.
There might still be a case when people do not read the message, but it might help in decreasing the number of times this happens, while saving the new user from downvotes and a cold reception.
I remember that before coming into the SO community I had already been reading a lot of questions and had already a good idea which questions go where, but not everyone might be the same way.
Thanks.
