Why do you give bad advice?

Yes, easier to provide solid response to a well defined question.That said,  I believe it easier to respond to a poor question than to produce a well defined one. Must admit that I have on occasion overlooked something in an OP,  leading to an unnecessary question rather than to poor advice.  

Questions are sometimes vague because they don’t know what they want or don’t want, aren’t sure of what quality they’ve got, have no big picture, suffer under a lifetime of misinformation and assumptions, and place logic before experience. OK those were my personal hurdles. Who has been around the hobby for awhile and has never given bad advice? I look back 20 years and some of my posts are downright embarrassments. Everyone is offering help in their own way. Whether they are informed and experienced and to what degree is for the OP to sort out.

As a group the people who participate on this forum are most generous, well intentioned and highly knowledgeable.  If a person presents a well thought out question or solicitation for information, they can get very useful responses.  On the other hand, if someone asks "What's the best" or "is X an upgrade over Y", then all they will get back are opinions of varying quality.  To get the best from this forum someone has to know enough to ask the "right" questions.

My pet peeves are OPs who omit vital information from their posts and OPs who never participate in their own threads.  After you ask a question and get numerous responses it would be nice to find out what you did with the information.

Any opinion expressed here should be taken with a varying sized salt sample...including my own.  ejr1953 has it right, and the depth of the opinion will vary with the level of esoteria involved.  And as the esoteria level rises, the level of advocacy for the offered opinion also gets more intense...

....well, that's what I've noticed.....IMHO. *L*