90% is the threads I read on here, I find, are someone asking how to do something and 10+ replies telling the poster to IM, or Email them or someone for an answer.

As a community I would think the assistance would be posted IN the topic so anyone else that is also looking for the answer could just open the thread and read it.

I have seen a few posts that, if it's to the advantage of someone and they can gain traffic or "moneys", freely post away but other than that... it's an industry hush, hush.

Now I'm not talking about all of them but the majority just seems to be that way to me.