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Message:: [QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 267329, member: 33"]Very good post [USER=5115]@toomanytocount[/USER]  -- We have seen all of those kinds of reactions here from questioners, but also... some of us (including me) do go pretty far in providing information. I generally phrase my information in saying "this site says" or "this book says" or I give a link that I assume somebody will be able to assess even beyond my initial assessment. But thinking about it, it would be good to be more explicit about something I always assume: that the person who is asking will have to judge through multiple sources whether or not they think the information given is accurate. As for giving too much information, I think it's up to the person asking the question to indicate how much they want, and if people give them more than they want, to tell them they already have enough. We do have people here who do that. However, some people are asking questions for their own information on an item they want to keep. In those cases they may want even more information. And you can't always tell from the way the question is asked. So I think it should be up to the questioner to indicate what they want.[/QUOTE]