I, too, doubt that this is the answer to a long-standing problem. Solutions that have been tried (without much success) include:
1. Putting a FAQ sticky on the forum. The questions are asked anyway, and members get mad if another member responds with a link to the FAQ, saying that we should just answer the question rather than link the answer.
2. Putting a "READ THIS BEFORE POSTING" sticky on the forum. Nobody reads it before posting.
3. Putting a sticky linking a search tutorial on the forum. Nobody bothers.

The current search function is powerful and pretty intuitive. Anybody who really wants to spend a half an hour trying can figure out how to mine a ton of information with it.

I have seen a new thread started to ask a question that was answered in the first post of the first thread on the first page of a forum. The member obviously couldn't bother to read anything before posting it.

Many members are conditioned by automated-answer sites such as "ask Jeeves" to ask first, think later. It is only natural that more knowledgable members would resent being treated as servants, therein lie the "squabbles".

There are possible solutions, but none that I know of within FT as we know it today. Just my opinion, YMMV.