You&#x27;re right. SO is optimized for people who read it later. I.e. people who will Google their problem, get directed to the question...and then want to throttle you for answering &quot;Just google it.&quot;<p>Because they just did that.<p>And the next eight links on their google search also link to forums with people saying &quot;RTFM&quot;, &quot;Quit wasting our time&quot;, &quot;This has been answered a bunch of times before.&quot;, or even worse, someone who clearly didn&#x27;t bother to read the question and gives a blatantly wrong answer.<p>And then the answer they have been looking for is now buried in legions of programmers&#x27; impulsive expressions of indignation.<p>At the very least link to somewhere where it is properly answered, or don&#x27;t answer at all.