Keeping secrets

For various reasons we have a culture in the buj of holding back certain, sometimes key, elements



I get that there are elements of the art that are not for the general community, but I'm not referring to these. I'm really referring to fundamentals (this thread has been inspired by the lunge punching thread really)



Speaking from personal experience, there are people who will take hard earned information and repackage it as their own for money or status. I've had notes of mine that were shared in the spirit of helping folk turn up being sold as "densho" for example.....



This resulted in me holding my cards close to my chest, sharing info between trusted friends, but not openly in the community



Also there are many people in the buj who like to position themselves as "on the inside track" and as a result they don't openly share their insights. Secrets sell well I think



However, there are clearly downsides to the approach of holding back key insights. eg: A lot of well meaning people, who do train hard, don't really develop well as they are missing key parts of the of jigsaw. People don't have a yardstick to assess their teachers by and so on



Would the benefits to the broader buj community outweigh the cost of Indies getting insights for free?



I'd really value people's opinions from within the xkans (I kinda know what those outside will say)