Both of these topics are covered in the same FAQ entry, right here. This is literally item number 2 in the entire FAQ

When you posted your message, there was a blinking and flashing box on the screen telling you to read the FAQ before posting. It looked like this:



Did you miss that box somehow? Is there something I need to do to make it blink more? Or something I could have done to make you actually do what it said? There's been a recent sudden increase in posts of people asking FAQs, including direct e-mails to my personal e-mail box, and I'm trying to figure out what we've done wrong and why people are missing it.