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Do you avoid all the dumb questions on this site or answer them just to gain points?
A lot of questions on this site are dumb but not all of them. There are some decent and intelligent questions AT TIMES but the majority of questions are not worth answering. I just keep scrolling the list of questions asked until I come across some worth answering but there are times I express my mind when there are Y/A users who need serious help in certain things and when certain users either need an education or to get the message through to them if necessary depending on what they ask.
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- 2 months agoFavourite answer
If you're talking about troll questions or nonsensical questions, I don't answer them. But I do answer "dumb questions", or as I would say, simple questions. Yes they could have just googled it, or maybe they should already know the answer, but the goal is to educate people and not shame them for trying to learn more. I try to answer nicely and give additional resources so they can learn on their own instead of asking simple stuff on Y/A over and over.
- .Lv 72 months ago
Some questions that don't interest me, I skip. Others I may respond to and let the OP know their question is in the wrong category (if that's the case) or is a violation (if that's the case).
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FYI, questions about the users are chat violations as the answers don't add any useful information to the YA database.
