Over at the Emacs subreddit, okimka suggests that an Emacs FAQ for the subreddit would be a good idea and even suggests a few questions and their answers. The comments generally complained about the questions and some of the answers but miss, I think, the main point.
Those on reddit and elsewhere spend a lot of time answering the same questions over and over. A lot of it is responding to the usual misinformed opinions of those who don’t even use Emacs. My favorite is “Emacs is unusable out of the box,” but there are also the complaints about it being bloated and slow. Rather than respond to those complaints over and over it makes sense to have some place we can point people to.
In addition to answering the usual complaints such an FAQ could address some of the other usual questions that we get repeatedly. I believe such an FAQ would be useful; what do you think?