I for one appreciated the question "what is BGP?" for the following reasons...
1. It allows me to understand that I am not the only one who doesn't understand the terminology involved, allowing the discussion to be more educational and inclusive.
2. Sometimes searching for terminology is ambiguous and without prior knowledge of the subject domain, can result in lack of confirmation as to whether the definition is the same as the one in the article.
3. For one person to ask here and have it answered, can save 100 people having to search for themselves when reading the comments.
On a technical newsfeed almost every story is littered with jargon and a ton of them I don't know what an acronym means. Not only is the correct wikipedia article the 1st result, Google actually includes the start of the definition right into the search. Its fine to ask, especially when its a generic acronym but that was not the case. Its a bad habit to get into and I speak from experience, spend a couple minutes on your own and come up with a question that shows you were willing to put in some effort.
Better yet, as I see people do around here from time to time, go read a brief synopsis and then post a "For other people who didn't know what BGP was: BGP is ....". I'm not for creating a hostile stuck up community but rewarding pure laziness seems pointless to me.
