I replied that I found it to be a useful exercise for me, and that I hoped it helped other people as well. I explained that part of 365 was learning from others, and sharing your own learning; that the community aspect was just as important as your own photos. 
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No matter what settings you use, you'll always be creating different photos, because of the photographer's eye. I think you can mutually benefit by sharing how you do things with each other. I would be pleased if someone else used my ideas and came up with a photo to make them happy. So I'm totally open to it.
And I recently put together a tutorial for my profile picture. http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/how-i-took/144350-picture-picture.html
I normally use photoshop elements to process the photos & the 'save for web' feature - which, it turns out removes all the exif data!
I will probably start saving differently to preserve the exif data as I'm happy to share - in fact I'd rather it was there. If asked, I'm always happy to provide any details I can about any of my pics. It's a learning curve for all of us, however experienced, and if I can help others along the way, so much the better.
i have no idea what the settings im using are half the time because i just faff about with them as i go along and dont know the names for half of it lol ....... mind i doubt anyone would be that interested in mine anyhow lol !
Camera settings are useless if you don't have an eye for it. I can only guess why some people don't share them. Perhaps they are insecure about it.
@indiannie_jones @dmortega - You have both been around, am I wrong about how the community seems to evolve over time?
Oh and Annie is right. Vik and Jinx are always willing to help. And if you don't follow them, perhaps you should. Its a learning experience in and of itself.
On the other hand, if I come up with a great lab, or something unique I go out of my way to give it to everyone in my department. The more I share with them, the more willing they are to share with me (like it is some competition.....ridiculous) I am a true believer that you cannot achieve greatness if you are not surrounded by greatness. In order to get better at things, you need to see what other people are doing that are already good at it. Therefore, anytime I do something out of the ordinary (like the ring picture, or the moon shot) I will share whatever I did. I am certainly not a professional or know what I am doing most of the time. I just read a lot of books, articles, webpages and look at tons of photos. From there, I just say to myself...."well I can do that" and I keep messing around until I get something similar or at least interesting. I think if people start doing it, more will follow. A guy in here (Jinx) outs up some great tutorials as well. I followed one on eyes last week and it worked great.
...but this website is really "friendly" too,if you ask.It only happened to me once,that a person did not respond to a technical question.
And to comment on the recipe sharing, I guess elite chef's with their own restaurants may not share recipes, but a lot of cooking is technique as much as ingredients. I watched a Christmas special Gordon Ramsey did and now make scrambled eggs the same way he showed, because the technique he used gives delicious results above the way I made them before. @photophil I liked that you posted your technique to get the match photo, and may some day try it! I'm glad when people share techniques to achieve certain results, it helps others grow and learn, try new things.
There was also a thread, I don't remember which one, about original ideas. We all may try similar ideas, but often times, even using the same technique we end up with different results.
My 2 cents....