It sure makes it easier on the people who want to help. Of course---thank goodness nowadays the preponderance of the 10,000 "Will this bristleworm attack me?" questions are all being handled by a lot of very helpful people in this forum...which opens up time for the veterans to take on the real posers and break new ground.
If everybody read those * threads, and saved themselves from the usual disasters, we could have more time for the odder and more problematic questions.