Honestly I have to disagree and wrote the following out of much frustation with dealing with basic questions:
You really need to read it and also look at the discussion thread. It's great food for thought and if you replace "CRM" with your focus area in SAP, most of the concepts still apply. Yeah it's going to challenge you, but that's my point. You need to wash the car first: "Wax-on/Wax-off".
That being said part of the other positive activities that I worked on my area to prevent basic questions was establishing a WIKI for FAQ questions not found elsewhere and even wrote a SAP Press book in my area to help cover the knowledge gap for my area of expertise.
I understand that learning SAP is like drinking from firehose, but if you don't attempt to drink from that the firehose you are going to get nowhere. That being said I have too high expectations for people in hoping that people will do their basic research and actually come here not to be spoon fed, but rather to try solve the really weird stuff that happens with SAP.
Take care,
Stephen