Exactly.

We ought to make a rule in the interests of BOTH the people that post and those that try to help that when the person asking the question CLEARLY doesn't provide sufficient information that answers aren't provided until the requirements are better known. It's particularly important that we do this when people post for the first time so that they get the most out of FT in their first post and then when they ask for help inj the future and offer help that they can give to others.

Some people think that providing replies without understanding anything at all about the needs of the person asking thge question is being friendly and welcoming. Perhaps they feel that asking people to provide more information is impolite. But providing answers when very little is understood is potentially very highly detrimental to the questioner because replies are based on totally inadequate information. It's the difference between providing shorter answers that hit the bullseye exactly or simply writing everything we know in the hope of hitting the target.

I'd like to start a campaign on FT called "Great Welcomes but Helpful Love".

Providing any answer whatsoever to the original question without further information to me seems somewhat self-indulgent rather than helpful. People that know the least, tend to post quickly and post everything they know, and people that know the most don't know where to start becasue they don't have sufficinent information to use their experience to the maximum. And if you were looking for help - would you like to be guided by the most or least knowledgeable?

I ask gently that everyone that has answered - reread the original question and ask themselves is it actually possible to productively answer the OP helpfully without any further information being provided about what his/her interests are?

Pith helment on.