Ask Lemmy

Age related. There is a user who keeps asking if it's ok for adults of different ages to date, marry, whatever. Dude kept asking so often I had to block.

i hate when someone asks a question, but qualifies it to only want answers from some specific subset of people, when that limitation isn't really relevant, and other types of folks are likely to have answers too.

a made up example: "Truck drivers of lemmy, what's your favourite platformer video game?"

Think of the same twenty or so reposted questions on r/askreddit week after week, and as long as I don’t see those I’m happy. What I love most about this community is people seeking very specific information or help on a given issue and actually getting it.

That being said, I’m also a habitual shitposter. I get a laugh out of seeing and posting questions like that and I hope people like to use them to either play along with the joke or use it to make a good point.

How do I do x in a Linux/Software. Mostly because there is not a lot of discussion going on and I can't contribute anything valuable. I might change my mind once I bork my own system once again.

What should I do about my bad coworkers?

Questions that don't invite discussion are bad content. When there's basically no replies to top comments it's a poor post.

In general, the "what's your favorite [x]?" questions, where [x] is movie, album, game, or the like. Few people share anything about the title, or why it's meaningful to them, and very little discussion ensues, because, what's to talk about? It just tends to result in a list of media (most of which I've heard of) connected to screen names of people I don't know. Not usually worth reading.

• Lazy questions. Those whose answer anyone could easily find by themselves.
• Fake questions. Questions that are only there to trigger (emotional) reactions or as a way to get some validation for the OP, and not as a way to spark a sincere (aka, open) discussion.

What's great is that no matter how easy it is to ask those kind of questions, even for the most... intellectually challenged trolls, it's even simpler for all of us readers to ignore them and not get triggered, or even not worrying about them being a thing ;)

Questions that are more appropriate as websearches. No need to ask here to learn the capital city of Lithuania or the law on jaywalking in OP's home town.

I usually tag the users most blatantly guilty of that as "LMGTFY" and move on.

(LMGTFY = let me google that for you, a phrase but also a link generator one could send someone that opens to a recording of their question being typed into google search and then providing them with results)

Mainly the "look at me, I'm smart" questions.

Anything that starts off negatively. . .

This one

I really don't mind the vast majority. Unless it's really dumb, hateful or repetitive, I'm good. It's just one more thing to scroll past, if I'm not interested. Though I do notice people with cool input running for the hills when the questions aren't 'exquisite' enough and places can turn dull.

What's your favorite song