My Assumption: It’s not useful to encourage users ask questions all over the place and then low probability of quality answers or even insecure/malicious advice.
Due to constraints, many support requests unspecific to Whonix ™ have to be redirected elsewhere (outside of whonix.org website) as per the Free Support Principle. To keep things manageable for me as developer, to help as many users as possible or at least help users to help themselves as much as possible, a lot write-ups have been added to the Whonix wiki to explain that.
- Please use Search Engines and see Documentation First
- General Advice
- Support Request Policy
- Private Communications Policy
- Generic Bug Reproduction
- Bug Reports, Software Development and Feature Requests
- Linux User Experience versus Commercial Operating Systems
The main guidance for Qubes-Whonix users is What to post in this Qubes-Whonix forum and what not. - Qubes-Whonix - Whonix Forum.
So I as maintainer of Qubes-Whonix would prefer if everything directly specific to Qubes-Whonix or Whonix should be posted in Qubes-Whonix forums at whonix.org or Whonix forums at whonix.org. That’s where me replying has highest probability as it would be hard/impossible to track lots of other places (Qubes forums, Qubes mailing list, reddit, qubes-issues on github when I am not tagged and Whonix tag is missing).