True. There will be some tradeoff between experts having to answer bad questions and deal with bad questioners, and unfairly treating good questioners as bad on

True. There will be some tradeoff between experts having to answer bad questions and deal with bad questioners, and unfairly treating good questioners as bad ones. I think people get to a point in their life or their expertise where they lose sight of the fact that there are always new people. Literally people who didn't even exist when they were first learning their craft. Children can only learn by making mistakes. You have to be generous and sacrifice for them. These kind of forums do a bad job of handling the "children" of the subject matter who would be willing to learn. And I don't necessarily mean the forums have to change, just that they may be bad places for channeling that kind of generosity and sacrifice.