Yes,
One of the main goals of UNIX.COM is to create a searchable on-line knowledge base. That is why we encourage people to search the forums first. If the answer to a question is already in the database, it is not the best use of everyone's time to spend time answering it again.
So, we hope to expand the knowledge base by spending time and resources working on creating knowledge about new topics, not answering the same questions again and again because the poster/user does not want to spend a few minutes to search the database.
If we have lots of discussions, flames, and chit-chat (like most sites) then when people search they will pull up a lot of useless discussions that do very little to solve their problems.
This site is about knowledge and expanding the knowledge base (database of knowledge)...... and it is completely commercial free.
And it is free to all users. Silk Road donates the site, bandwidth, the operations and maintainance of the forums, the expenses of the graphics, the animations, the look and feel; our incredible moderators and administrators donate time and knowledge to the site for the benefit of users; the users donate their time and knowledge as well. Everyone wins!!!
All without commercial influence, blinking banner ads, or pop ups!!! This is how we think this corner of the Internet should be
Thank you for your involvement in the UNIX.COM community.
Neo