Peoples' values vary. People who don't value answers wouldn't be very popular if they turned up here,

Hey, but I like you! ;-)

Seriously, in my line of work, answers only take you a step or two forward. The lasting value is in the questions, which can be reused over and over again to produce change as a side effect of the answering, while the actual answers can be consciously discarded once the process of answering is complete.