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Well, I’m aware of Stack Exchange, there’s a Libre Office forum, etc., but, all want a valid e-mail address to sign up. SFAIK, to ask questions you have to sign up. Then the question is how much more unwanted e-mail traffic (and monitoring of such) can I possibly handle? Well, actually, I’m a very busy person, and I can’t handle the traffic now: My primary yahoo e-mail account has in it @ present over 50,000 unread messages: It’s hard to find time to prune, manage, filter, etc., everything unwanted.

I became a member of All Circuits, for example: There are very helpful people there, but, related spam & junk gets sent to my inbox. I created a secondary e-mail account to use in such circumstances — its name literally starts out with “junk...”, but I can’t entirely ignore that account because, for example, the mods might send me an actual important message (sort of like when Fishing Talks advised they would be shutting down the site.)

I’m a member of ~20 forums already...

I can search other forums / help forums I’m not a member of, in many cases, without signing up, but searching may become extremely tedious to find “the right threads” or comments, images (like screenshots) may be blocked, and there are often other serious limitations.

With FR I sometimes get a lot of crap responses (I’m not calling yours crap, you have a valid question / suggestion), but, often FReepers make quite useful replies as well. In return, I would hopefully bring new viewers to FR — somebody’s search for info. on a similar subject to mine might bring them to FR. Believe it or not, a LOT of conservatives or fellow travelers (more or less) are really not aware of FR or have heard of it only as some crazy site. If they come here and find helpful info., who knows - they might stick around.

Yes, I know many FR members are particularly and peculiarly hostile to “newbies” — about the most self defeating attitude I can imagine — but hopefully a few “newbies” may persist and become valuable members. (All of us were newbies at some point!)

Basically, sometimes FR is a useful resource. (I hang out on the monthly Garden Threads and ask lots of questions there, too!) :-)

I hope this answers your question coherently - It was 4:15 am when I woke up and shortly came over to the computer, knowing I’d better get a couple replies in or the thread might get yanked due to me being an “unresponsive” OP. (It has happened in the past!)

Thanks!