Good advice, however I feel that the people who would most benefit from it may not be listening here. Also, even though it's linked on the front page, I always seem to forget about the cookbook. Thanks for the reminder. The next time I do something I feel is clever/useful, maybe I'll put it there, since an actual distributable project is so rare!
I would also like to add that people who have nothing yet to show of their project has no business posting. It's called a release, maybe if there were a pre-release section it would be different. If you cry wolf by "announcing" a release, people may skip over the next release which actually has something to say. Are there any moderator abilities to go through and remove some of the spam? Possibly with a warning first? On an unrelated website note, I would like to be able to remain logged in to the web site. It didn't used to be a problem when I would only log in every month or so, but lately I have wanted to comment more often. Could this be added Phil Hassey?
