[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

I concur 100%. Believe me, I get almost just as much from reading his posts as you do. Some with photon and a couple others.

Extending your point a little further, this is why I love creating threads about topics I know very little about. If I stumble across an article that touches on a topic interests me, but is something I know very little about, I'll post it somewhere on this board, and then just sit back and let the people who do know about it discuss it. It's that whole "if you're stupid, surround yourself with smart people; if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you" thing.

It's amazing how much I can gleam off an informed discussion by people who both know what they're discussing, and are clearly happy to be discussing it. It sounds kinda weird to me, but I learn much more from that than I do from asking specific questions and trying to understand their answers, or just reading from a book, etc. (Unless, of course, I have a specific issue I need help with.)

In the context of being helpful, it's 'glean'.