Originally Posted by framer
It has been my experience that really useful and thought provoking information can come from asking the forum questions like this. Often links to background information are posted that would have taken hours of dedicated research to uncover. I think it is a good idea as long as the OP is validating opinions for themselves.
That hasn't been my experience. More commonly these types of questions lead to people parading their vast knowledge and not actually answering the question.