"Only Star members can search this forum" [View all]

I can understand wanting to give Star Members extra privileges but unlike the other forums which are about external issues, the Help forum is to seek answers to questions about D.U. That means that there could easily be numerous times a question was posted and numerous different answers or suggestions in each one. It also means that, yet again, the same question answered in one or more posts is just had another post added.

I'm surprised at this because for years many answers have been "Have you searched for that first?"

Is there some reason that that the Help forum couldn't be open to search by everyone? I'm sure this question has been asked here before.