It is and it isn't.
New folks, such as me just 4 months ago, have zero knowledge. All they may know is that there is more than just auto mode. All they may know is that they've been reading here and have picked up a little bit about the settings such as shutter can freeze action and aperture can blur or not blur the background.
Thus, they haven't made it to the point of fully understanding the relationship of shutter, aperture, and ISO to the capture of light. Thus, they come here and ask what they think is a very simple question.
They learn from those that make it a friendly forum (Big Mike is a perfect example from what I have seen over the past few months) by being explained about how you can't just ask about settings. They learn from being told why the scene is so important to figuring it out.
The start of this thread is exactly the arrogance that I do not like in this forum and exactly why sometimes this forum is not the friendliest forum around.
Not everyone in the world has perfect knowledge about everything there is in the world. The RC guys get fed up with the "I'm new, what airplane should I get?" The sim racers at my particular choice of PC sim racing get fed up with the constant "Why isn't there real cars and real tracks in this sim?" etc, etc, etc... You just won't get away from this stuff, just like the "Which dSLR should I get?" It will never go away.