<p>If a question is easy to answer, answer it. In so doing the OP is helped. Now, if it gets moved, deleted, modified, closed or otherwise traumatized, that does not modify your contribution to the OP's sanity, you will still have done your good deed for the day. Will you garner respect from that? Eventually, for enough answers, you will. Indeed, sometimes a good answer helps to protect the question, or it gets moved by a moderator to a duplicate question as an answer there.</p>

<p>Being off-topic a little bit is usually tolerated. Outrageous stuff tends to last only a few minutes on CV before it is expunged. Stuff in the middle, moderately off topic is anyone's guess. Sometimes the off-topic nature is ignored, sometimes not, depends more on the stochastic nature of the review process than on actual content.</p>
