This site is for us to share our research with others. "Always verify" makes sense as a precaution, but "Do your own research" just sounds lazy and really isn't helpful.
Not everyone can "monitor the situation" to the degree of rigor that thorough research requires. Many are still waging a daily war of just trying to survive among crippling debt and overwhelming inflation. Some use GAW simply to help filter out the excess noise on X (since most posts here are just reposts of stuff from X anyway).
Please be mindful that many are not as blessed with their free time as you might be.
I can't say that I've seen many posts with the phrase or tone of "Do your own research", but I do agree that people should be mindful that we have many GAW members figuratively spinning plates to take care of their family.
In that regard, I think a FAR bigger problem is the lack of rigor and vetting for a frustratingly large % of posts. That's a scenario where one person fails to be responsible to the community, and now 30 people are finding out that the X post is just an unsupported assertion with no data or corroboration to back it up.
Suddenly 20 hours in aggregate were wasted because one person didn't put up a high quality post.
I agree with the OP of any particular post to give a reasonable level of effort, but when one replies, I don't expect that person to do all the work.