For the last 2 days, mainly sick with the flu, I've spent about 4-6 hours on the site.

From what I can see there is alot of post padding (posting no information, Thanks I agree, good place etc etc) in response to the original question, some of these posts come from mod's or people with 2K+ post counts.

Is this acceptable?

Personally I find it a waste of space, and really kills the flow when you have people asking stupid questions.

Quick example: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=636211

I have many more.....