I find it hard to use the Wiki. When I do come across an "answer" I sometimes don't really agree with it.
I find it annoying to try and avoid threads while bad information is posted in reply to questions. I have to deal with a lot of the fall out through PMs or phone conversations.
Beginner: "I heard that I should attack my shave ready razor with 1K grit for 16 hours, and now having done that, I have a few questions for you"
Me: "Let me guess, your not happy with the shave now?"
I find it annoying to deal with basic questions over and over again. I think sometimes I should just tell everyone "Yes, I strop every time before a shave, because the Wiki says so" and be done with it. That way there would always be a single answer for every problem.
I find it annoying to have to deal with questions, and poor replies, say about honing, when I know darn well the original poster isn't even honing. That drives me nuts.
"MMMMM, btw I was just wondering whats the best way to climb a mountain?" "Some day I might climb one, and I just wanted to check here first. Ya know?"
I agree completely about the need to do research to ask valuable questions, but I don't think the Wiki is, as it stands, the viable answer.
I wonder if it might make sense to post a FAQ thread (sticky) at the beginning of each forum. I forget, does every forum have something like that?
So, in the "Strops" forum we'd have a FAQ of strops and in the stropping forum a FAQ on stropping. ??