I wonder if the main benefit of blogs and tutorials is for the writer, not the reader. This makes me wonder about the damage FAQs do to a community; where once

I wonder if the main benefit of blogs and tutorials is for the writer, not the reader. This makes me wonder about the damage FAQs do to a community; where once there was a continual flow of new people needing newbie explanations - and a continual flow of not-quite-newbies benefiting from writing those explanations over and over, but different people each time, and implicitly being welcoming through that interaction - there is instead an implicitly unwelcoming response with a link to a FAQ. A FAQ which is dauntingly large due to its attempt to be comprehensive, but never deleted and refreshed, so getting ever more outdated and cruftier.