This was a tough one for me. I will agree that doing this purely in the name reputation, to seem like the expert, isn't a good idea.

But asking for advice too quickly can be harmful. There have been times where I struggled for a day or two with configuration, and the answer was a few lines of xml.

But the process, checking all of the dozen possible failure points, along with a few possible combinations? It actually did leave me with a much stronger understanding of the system and how it works. It probably was a valuable day and a half.

And my hair did grow back in, eventually.