In article ,
George wrote:

But aren't you supposed to purposely omit all of the details when asking
a question so a 100 post thread of guesses can form?

Standard netiquette says that's Option 1. Option 2 is to provide
completely irrelevant background info going back to 1962, so you end up
with a rambling and disjointed 1500 word post that touches briefly on at
least 17 issues, and preferably lacking a question mark anywhere.