###Why Worldbuilding has a few problems, and why Literature likely won't.
Disclaimer: Worldbuilding moderator here.
You've identified what I have more commentsthink the main problem is - and has been - on why this failed for Worldbuilding Stack Exchange for a while, but I'll savenamely, that foreveryone has an opinion on everything and therefore a future editvariety of questions are asked and answered like there's no tomorrow (if I can paraphrase you like that). That is an issue, and one that we've tried to fix in a few different ways, such as encouraging downvoting and trying to get more rigorous responses to certain questions.
My best explanation is that information is all around us, and yet it's the wrong kind of information. There are so many popular articles around us on a bazillion topics - science, history, linguistics, and so on. People can peruse some of those, and then when a question on that subject comes up, they try to answer it. Boom! You get problems, because folks aren't conscious of what they don't know.
I don't think we're going to see the same risk factors are presentissues here. If you can piece together a half-decent answer to a question on Literature, you've at least read the book in full, in all likelihood. Therefore, you've looked at the information in some sort of context, rather than just a few misrepresented points on an article in Popular Science. Now, you may not have understood the material in the same way someone trained in literary analysis might. However, you're a good portion of the way there, because you've read the actual thing, not just a summary of it.
There's no guarantee that people can't write answers without having read the whole book or poem or piece of literature. However, it's a lot harder to write a half-decent answer if you haven't. A lot harder.
