Quote: "no s-h-i-t, but why respond and not answer the 'question' ?"
Because answering a question well (like I did in the recommended post

) takes quite a bit of time. If I'm answering someone's technical query, I can spend about 15 minutes making sure I cover the topic properly.
Sorry, but why should I spend my entire day answering other people's questions when they can't even be bothered to carry out a search?
Can I ask you a Question?
What is it?
It's an interrogative form of sentence, used to test knowledge. But that's not important right now.