A lot of us can answer the beginner/average tech Qs. Hell, half of those can be solved with “reboot your computer/delete your cache and cookies” etc. But when it gets really technical, then there truly are very few of us who can help them. Also the truth is when a question becomes that technical, it usually requires a lot of back and forth between the asker and answerers before any sort of solution can be reached. So even if you think you might be able to help, you realize you will have to commit more time to that question than the other ones where you can usually answer once and not look back ever again but still be helpful. By that point, it’s just easier to go to the nearest tech store and speak to someone.
All that said, Fluther still needs more tech geeks. In my opinion, the questions that are easiest to answer (at least for me) are the relationship ones and obviously the opinion ones. But when a question requires expertise in a certain field, that question always receives lesser to no responses. Bottom line, let’s go find some smart grad students from all sorts of fields, get them hooked to this site that part should be easy so they can answer our questions =).
This is not to say that Fluther doesn’t already have some truly brilliant and skilled people in its userbase. I am just saying we could always use more and that we do need more.