Why do you give bad 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*

Case in point:

Thread "Are audiophiles still out of their minds?" is Still roaring on.  Like watching a slow motion cat fight at times.  But some live for conflict apparently....

Another interesting though somewhat rhetorical  question is why do people take bad advice?  I'm pretty sure in most cases the givers think their advice is pretty good.