In reply to markk5.

markk5, I think you'd just have to experience the group yourself in order to understand just how wrong you are. If you know much about the WP Community in general then you'd recognize that regular contributors to the group like Chris Lema, Ben Fox (Sidekick, WPUniveristy), Devin Walker (WordImpress), Hristo Pandjarov (Siteground, he's also an admin), Chris Weigman (creator of iThemes Security), David Jesch, Bill Erickson, Michael Bastos, (and I'd like to include myself in there) are some top notch professionals who do spend their time in other forums like.org and stackexchange. But they contribute in AWP because it's stimulating and you build relationships there. You actually have the chance to discuss the finer points of a broader issue, you also get to hear about news that you don't really get anywhere else at all.

The recent discussions on ACF's 5.0 issue were really interesting, lots of different viewpoints, lots of different approaches. AWP members were some of the first people to hear about Sidekick and it's not beta Composer, about FooBox and FooGallery, and many other WP centric relevant issues.

Also, I don't see any irony in the fact that people who value relationship building and networking go to a networking medium. That's FB's purpose, to let people network. That's particularly true for their "groups".

Lastly, one way we mitigate the searchability issue is that within the FB groups you can create "files". We have made quite a few files to answer the very often repeated questions like "good WordPress hosting", "security plugin", etc. Because we have those, and because we have 22 admins we're able to discourage those types of questions while still pointing them to a good resource. Plus, now that I've been in the group for about 2 years, it's amazing to see that the answers to the questions that get asked over and over evolve even over this short timespan.

Bottomline is that you can read all the other testimonies of people commenting here and how valuable it is for them, and if you'd still like to call that "low quality and lazy" then I'm not sure you're actually open to other opinions.