In addition to Moose's three untenable assumptions, I add:
4) that an encyclopedia article or website is the kind of help the person needs,
5) that finding information in a search or encyclopedia lookup is more efficient
than asking a question and getting an answer here, and
6) that the people answering don't get at least as much out of the answers as
the people asking the questions.
I like Van Rijn's reply. Henrik Olsen's reply has legs, too, if taken in a
non-moderatory kind of way. Namely, chill out, this isn't a real problem.
We can all understand the problem you see, but most people see that
it just isn't real.
I was astonished at your reply to geonuc, post #9. It was completely
off the target. BAUT is certainly an online information resource, and it
is a resource that works very differently from an online encyclopedia,
because it isn't an encyclopedia. Enough said?
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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