Capt. I think you are being a little unfair here. Yeah there are some lazy students and frankly they have been around ever since the idea of formal education. There isn't much you can do about such except fire them when their laziness is discovered in the real world. On the flip side I can remember back when I was in tech school getting hung up on a concept that only took a bit of conversation to get me unstuck. Almost everyone has ran into such a problem from time to time. At work how many times have you gotten hung up on a problem only to go into work the next morning and solve it in 5 minutes?
Then there are people like me that just turned 60 and all that education is a distant memory. Half the threads I read here are like a refresh operation on the brain cells. Believe me I read far more than I comment on. I would hope that the exchange of knowledge here continues unencumbered without excessive moderation. In the end it doesn't matter if somebody is refreshing knowledge or a student struggling with a project, if you are stuck conversation can be the best way to move beyond.
The only thing that really bothers me is people doing things where they obviously have not gained the experience and knowledge to safely move forward. In some cases you simply need to tell them that they need to step back before they end up dead. This isn't an activity for everybody and as such we need to be careful discouraging people. It isn't always easy to separate the people with potential from those that are a threat to themselves.
Since it seems that many students rather than try to create and improve a circuit assigned to them by their professor instead comes here for free handout help I suggest that for every 25 times we are thanked by an obvious student looking for easy answers we should earn 1 C.E.U. accredited and recognized by major colleges and useable for matriculation value. Some folks here could earn a Masters Degree in 6 months.
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