One would think that would come
before using it.

This is a learning process for most of us, i'm hoping in the next few weeks i'll have testnet active and learning through trial and error will be much easier and less disruptive... Documentation of these things is usually hard to come by or non existent so trial and error is the only option.
Don't feed the trolls, Infernoman. Obviously we prefer an environment where people are allowed to try things and know quickly whether it fails or succeeds. This allows us to learn quickly and apply new knowledge in quick, successive iterations. Any real platform builder would know this is the current best practice, especially for software development and community engagement, so genie is obviously trolling you

You're doing a great job and the alerts have been a perfectly reasonable learning opportunity for us all. If genie wanted to actually help, genie would have gone to the wiki and put all of their incredible knowledge there in a collaborative learning document where we can all benefit from it.
If anyone else wants to pitch in and share what they know, or doesn't know anything yet and wants to read from the ones smart enough to use a wiki, come on over:
http://op.crownlab.eu/projects/crown-atomic/wiki/new-here-start-here 