I think you bring up a good point. A simple question can grow into a great discussion. In defense of those who tell the person to RTFM or go to google. If you look at the question its usually the type, How do I hack my teacher's hotmail account and so forth.

My question is how far do you want to go in these discussions? Last week we had a good topic called how to hack winXP. A lot of good ideas were brought up but the post was suicidal due to the script kiddy nature of the posts.