I’ve thought of an inappropriate visual:
We all like to swim in the sea – this forum – but there are also killer whales swimming way over there. If you go over there you might get chomped. Nobody wants to get chomped. Fortunately, there were people kind enough to erect a barrier the killer whales generally won’t cross, if we’re lucky, so you’re safe swimming over here. There’s also lifeguards on duty. They tell the people not to cross the barrier please, or you might get chomped, and why they might get chomped. Keeping the lifeguards is expensive, and they get weary too if there are too many people that keep trying to cross the barrier, so at times they may leave and let people get chomped and won’t have the time to explain why they got chomped. A killer whale can chomp a person in a fraction of a second, the lifeguards explaining why they got chomped (because there are killer whales over there) are much much slower, and are volunteers anyway – they’re not very good. The lifeguards are the bottleneck. The veteran swimmers have been coming to swim in the sea for a long time already and the barrier has been here all that time, so one hopes that they are concerned for their own safety enough to keep well away from the barrier, even without a lifeguard present to warn them. The lifeguards would rather teach new people to swim and teach them about the dangers, and joys, of swimming in the sea and the dangers of killer whales.
Here’s the barrier, don’t cross that, try to keep your distance even, and you’re generally fine: https://forum.awesystems.info/faq
In reply to @dougselsam and @PierreB, the FAQ has recently been updated. See the bit under Productive Technical Discussion Now the burden of proof rests with the poster. We will try to enforce the new rule, where relevant. I don’t think it should be used to put every inconsequential claim under a microscope.