I answered the poll before I read all of the thread. I assumed the poll meant, "Do you talk to anyone else playing the game." To which I answered "no."
I have definitely talked to people outside of the game. It's no different than Googling answers. Sheep is a survey of the meta of the Wake board, not society. The best talking to outside people does is give you more possible information and ideas, not the answers.
Talking to other people playing the game would be straight up cheating.
If I were playing and it were decided that talking to anyone was cheating, I'd stop doing that.