How do we stop people from asking stupid questions on Quora?
I can understand why you had to ask this. Earlier, I used to go through the open questions everyday to stumble upon interesting ones to answer and contribute my $0.02. And very often to read the ones that will educate me. Frankly, I don't find much of them these days. You may say I am no Wikipedia, which I humbly admit, but the quality of questions have been witnessing a drastic decline.Questionswhich can be GOOGLE'd which are targeted towards some particular section- Say IIT, Athiest, Hindu-Islam which are stupid in their finessewhich do not have proper reason to be asked.which are grossly populisticare on the rise. If there is something that can stop that trend, it's us. Individual contribution alone. Quora can't impose every tiny thing.This is what I think can be done to address the issue.Dis-incentivize the questions in the first place. Say Downvote the questionsEducate the users not to ask questions that create lines amongst the diverse forumAvoid giving funny/vote fetching answers. Serious answers to be encouraged.Acknowledge the source appropriately. There has been serious plagiarism happening around us. Followers can bring upon proper thrust to bring up nice and quality questions and answers. Start unfollowing someone if too much of indecent/inappropriate content is being posted.That's all I can think of now. Let's see how it goes.A2A, here it is Amritendu Dey !
How do I stop myself from asking stupid questions to stupid people who manage to answer them stupidly?
P.S. If you want to ask stupid questions for creating humor or irritate someone then this is not the answer. If you have asked this question genuinely, then read ahead.There is nothing called stupid questions. Your question might appear to be stupid to someone because you are not well-informed about the answer, while the person whom you asked the question might/might not be well versed on that particular topic and he may see it as stupid. Most often people who answer stupidly has no idea of the topic or is irritated/angry over some other matter and gets infuriated when someone asks him something which he perceives to be stupid.Let me for example ask the question; Why are mobile phones called cell-phones?For people who does not know the answer to this question may think it as a stupid question. Some people will also brush you aside and ask you what will you gain by knowing the answer to this question, although it is a very interesting question and there is proper answer for this question. All through the ages, people who have questioned were looked down upon initially, sometimes they were even punished. Remember Galileo, when he asked the question, why every thing on earth falls to the ground?, people might have thought he had gone nuts. He was even forced to ask for church's forgiveness by kneeling down in front of a huge crowd, when he told that the earth goes round the sun and not what the church believed. Similar was the problem with the person who asked, Why blood is red? As you see, all questions/answers/information/skills are not acknowledged by all people uniformly. While you will get a snide remark from someone, you may get an enlightening answer from someone else.Having said all that, there are certain ways of asking questions. Learn the art by following some good questions. Before asking the question get some background knowledge about the probable answer. With google it ain't that difficult. Try to get some information about the question and explain the question in details. Be objective as to what exactly you want to know about and if you are asking question to people in the real world, understand that not everyone will answer your queries as you expected. So, identify the right person to ask the question.P.S 2 : If you have asked this question to create followers and earn credits, then this is actually a stupid question. Otherwise not.
Do people sometimes ask stupid questions on Quora to see if some people will take the bait and actually answer it?
Meanwhile,today i came across these two questions. #Images
Why Are Stupid People Allowed to Vote on Yahoo! Answers?
because not everybody has the same idea of "stupid" as you.
How many stupid people does it take to change a lightbulb?
three- one to hold the lightbulb and two to hold his legs to turn him.
How do I get over my low tolerance of stupid people?
When I married the first time, I was 21. The first time I met my husband's mother, I was appalled. She knew every old wives' tale there was and believed them wholeheartedly (cats that steal babies' breath, joint snakes...the list goes on). Her only reading material was The National Enquirer, and she had never been out of our Midwestern state, and never more than a few hundred miles from home.She didn't like or trust me because I was intelligent and college educated. I thought she was a backwoods hick.And yet -- over the years we came to respect each other. We spent quite a bit of time together after the kids came because I thought it was important they have good relationships with their grandparents, and my husband didn't care, so if they visited, it was up to me to take them.She'd listen to me when I played Snopes to her old wives' tales; I'd listen to her tell me about her time of being a single mom and opening a tiny diner to make enough money to get by, her kids' childhoods, and how to cook. We actually came to enjoy each other's company despite having very little in common.When her son (my husband) turned out to be a complete and total jerk, she took my side and told me that I could divorce him, but I was stuck with her -- and we became "out-laws" instead of "in-laws". She's been gone for many years now, but I still miss her.What I'm telling you here is that it's not about the intelligence, it's about the heart of someone. Your life will be considerably poorer if you cut people out of it because they're not "smart enough". I don't know how you change except by being open to people who mean well. Maybe you can start by considering yourself a mentor to the world at large. I think you will be surprised at what you yourself will learn in the process.
If you believe the old adage "There are no stupid questions", then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?
“They say” is no evidence for this statement to be of any real significance. In my opinion the world is full of incredibly stupid questions.However, you don't need to be stupid to ask a stupid question. A lot of people ask stupid questions because they lack EQ, empathy to understand stand others and their emotions. Some people are just too lazy to think before they ask. Some questions are stupid because even intelligent people often miss simple cues, clues or ideas. Some people are just too tired at times. Sometimes you just don't find the right words to ask the question so everyone can really understand it. I often ask stupid questions for any of those reasons.Which brings me to another important point: What is a stupid question, and who is to blame? If you think about it, most “stupid question” only seem stupid to some people, and not to others. If someone asks “Did God abandon me?” an atheist would probably consider this an incredibly stupid question, whilst for many Christians it would seem a perfectly “reasonable” question. Blame is just as subjective here as a concept as “stupid”.So if someone asks on Quora “How long does it take XYZ Bank to cash a cheque?” of course my first thought is “Why the f*** don't you call that bank and ask them? Why do you think random people from all sorts of places have a better answer than the bank's hotline?” Truth is, I don't know why this person is asking the question. Maybe the person is incredibly stupid, but maybe there is a good reason (and the only stupid thing is not to enlighten Quora on on a bit of that missing context. I mean seriously, people, give us more context!)
Why do people ask really easy questions on Quora?
Seriously, I've been asked to answer some seriously stupid questions recently, to which I just responded with very straightforward short replies as I find the questions extremely annoying, but I feel like it would be wrong if I just ignored them. And these people don't even have the sense to ask them anonymously :/ Strange enough, many of the smart questions I'm posed with actually are asked anonymously. I think the people who ask these stupid questions are too stupid to figure out how to add anonymity to their questions or else I'm sure they would have done so. You guys are just candy coating things here. Just be honest with yourselves and tell it like it is. Some people ask really stupid questions because they are actually quite stupid. Sometimes I think stupidity should be a crime, then at least if the stupid people didn't go into hiding, they would at least go undecover, well, that's if they were in the least bit smart. But I'm sure the majority of them would probably just be incarcerated.Sorry guys, it's just I've been asked to answer 3 stupid questions back to back, and I find it quite offensive actually. Like, do I have a profile that says, 'hey, I answer questions for retards :)' or what, I dunno. Ok maybe I'm taking this a little too personally, but 3 stupid A2A's back to back? Cummon, this just ain't cool.