[rprospero]

I see and understand your point about reading quantity over quality. On the other hand, I also get paranoid about reflexively telling people to rtfm.

As my anecdote, I was trying to learn a new framework last month and team into what should have been a trivial problem. I spent days scavenging through the docs and finding nothing. Finally, I gave up and went to stackoverflow, where some other poor soul had asked my question before and been given -10 for their troubles.

The question had several comments about hours the site has deteriorated with questions from people too lazy to read the docs. Thankfully, there was one answer that explained the solution (the framework authors had overloaded a non-intuitive operator to handle this functionality) and a link to the homepage of the documentation with an admonition to read that before posting to stackoverflow.

In the month since, I still haven't encountered a single reference to that behaviour in the docs, despite referring to then quite regularly.