Thanks, Paul! I appreciate your more positive sentiment. I'm tempted to go off on a rant about elitism and lamentable 'bootstrapterism" but I'll refrain for now.
No, wait, I'll say a few words. Not everyone has the time to read 4200 posts to glean useful info. There's also often reasonable and fair asymmetry of info sharing; some people may need spoon feeding of MS stuff, but give awesomely useful advice about, say, mileage runs in a different forum. I believe what goes around comes around, and as long as people are respectful and make some effort to Google things, then it's all good.