Description : Why are some questions not being answered?
Last Answer : If you're looking for dynamic, this place delivers all the excitement of a cold bowl of yesterday's oatmeal. Our club is pretty much snoozeville, the participation anemic, the membership dwindling in front ... a pile of money, go out and grab a bunch of milk crates and stack them appropriately.
Description : How much "Activity" do you have on previously answered questions?
Last Answer : 2. Usually it’s in the teens when I log in. I’m here everyday and check in with discussions a lot.
Description : Why do people ask questions here that are easily answered?
Last Answer : answer:Because everyone craves interaction with other people (even if it’s through the computer) and getting an answer for something that could be found on the first page of a Google search is a way of getting that interaction. Also people are dumb.
Description : Here are questions from the opera Turandot--if answered incorrectly, your lose your head. Can you get them?
Last Answer : ill has at a guess 1. sleep 2. blood
Description : Do people ask questions they really want answered?
Last Answer : I ask for real answers, as for anyone else, who knows what evil lurks in the minds of other men? only the shadow knows, bwa hahahahahahaha!
Description : how to retrieve unfinished "answers" that accidentally disappear?
Last Answer : To heaven w. all the lost socks.
Description : How do I talk about something that leaves me with questions, and then those questions are answered later on accidentally?
Last Answer : Consider yourself lucky. In this part of the world people can spend hours on what they think is the road to Providence, only to find themselves halfway up Cape Cod asking if they're on ... more frequently and in equally satisfying ways as your vocabulary and awareness of etymology starts to build.
Description : How do you best avoid coming to the right answer only to realize it solves the wrong question?
Last Answer : answer:Of course, I'm a professional at this. You want to know why people are doing what they are doing to make sure you are tackling the right problem. I get tons of people who come into my office and ... how to get the answer to their question. So, this is not something you should try at home. ;-)
Description : Given Murphy's Law, "Anything that can go wrong, will." Can you come up with your own law of the universe? [Details]?
Last Answer : answer:That isn't trying on to me. That's putting on. I try on more when I'm overweight. JL's law: Your weight directly impacts your need to try on multiple outfits before going out for the ... don't get washed by themselves. Actually, I think someone said that before me. I hate washing dishes.
Description : What's wrong with telling a child, "I don't know, but we can look it up."?
Last Answer : answer:There’s nothing wrong at all, and it educates the child that (1) the parent is not omniscient, and (2) the parent is open to learning more. My teenage kids ask me questions all the time, and I often say “let’s look it up.”
Description : How does everything perfect on the wrong day happen?
Last Answer : answer:To test you? Because that’s life? Thats the way the cookie crumbles? I don’t know the answer, but I know what you mean. It always works like that. Just be thankful because it could always be worse.
Description : Ever spend hours crafting a response only to have the question pulled?
Last Answer : Yup. I’ve even written out long answers only to realize that I needed to pull the question. If you’d like, I can send you the text of your answer and you can post it here. I’m sure many people would be grateful for your… “advice.”
Description : Do you ever ask a question, changing the wording slightly, over and over again?
Last Answer : Yes. Many times I look at the questiom and feel the need to click the “edit question” button. But that’s always before anyone come and answer. I change because I want my question to be readable, not because I want anyone to say what I want to hear.
Description : Have you ever gone to ask a question, only to find that question has already been asked....by you?
Last Answer : I usually get a feeling if i’ve asked the same question already & either go with it, if it was asked ages ago, or drop it like a hot potato if it was recently.
Description : Will the question/answer ratio ever stop climbing?
Last Answer : answer:Are my eyes horrible or are walls of text insanely painful to read on Fluther? I just can’t. Unreadable without insane focus. Not a slag on you ET. The CSS needs work.
Description : Would an "ask me anything" style question ever work here?
Last Answer : Sounds like fun to me.
Description : Do you ever have trouble figuring out what the question was?
Last Answer : answer:I'm having great difficulty figuring out what this question is. Are you saying that you click the links at the bottom for next article, and then don't want to read the question or something, ... intuit the question by the answers listed at the bottom of the page? What exactly are you asking?
Description : Did you ever steal someone else's question?
Last Answer : Not really.
Description : Have you ever asked a question for yourself to answer?
Last Answer : I’ve never posted a question just for the sake of me answering it. I’ve posted questions that were things I wanted to get others insight as well as discuss my own views on the given topic, debate the possibilities with others, and hopefully by the end have a broader understanding of said topic.
Last Answer : I’ve thought of questions because of what I wrote in response to someone’s question, but my own answer inspired MY question. Is that a no-no? I didn’t think so.
Description : Have you ever had a question you wanted to ask, but the written question didn't match what had been in your mind when you decided to post the question?
Last Answer : A few times only, when I was rushed and not willing to edit.
Description : What is the strangest interview question you have ever been asked?
Last Answer : “Have you ever hidden drugs in your anus?” is a contender.
Description : Have you ever asked a question that got you erroneously maligned?
Last Answer : Don’t think so…
Description : Have you ever had a question just ...disappear?
Last Answer : Bye bye @josie.
Description : Do you ever go to post a question, look it over carefully, hit the final "Ask Fluther" button and instantly go "O shit!" because there is a major error you just saw at the same instant before it posted?
Last Answer : No, because I can edit it for several minutes.
Description : Have you ever asked the same question here twice?
Last Answer : Once that I know of, asking for movie suggestions. I will probably ask this question from time to time when I cant find anything good i want to watch.
Description : Do you ever start to answer a question and then think: honestly, who really gives a rat's ass what I think? I don't even care what I think anymore, so you just blow it off?
Last Answer : People care when you’re radical [hint: double meaning]. The Wikipedia quoting crap don’t cut it.
Description : "Have you ever avoided answering a question in conversation? If so why?"?
Last Answer : I’ll repeat it until they give me the answer that I want ;)
Description : What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked?
Last Answer : we were at popeyes and we ordered and then after about a 5 minute a stall a strange voice said "ummm.. Uhh so.. Yall wanted who now?" lol
Description : Have you ever gone to write a clever answer to an old question on ask-public only to discover you already have answered the question with the exact same answer you just thought you'd thought of?
Last Answer : Yes!
Description : DAMN IT! I accidentally submitted the wrong materials to a company that I REALLY wanted to apply for...has this happened to you?
Last Answer : Acknowledge the error in your next application. Everyone makes mistakes. Not everyone realizes it, and an even smaller percentage of those who do acknowledge and try to recover. That alone should make you a standout.
Description : Could it be designed in such a way that if you accidentally try to correct your Answer in the wrong box, it won't automatically disappear?
Last Answer : I don’t understand. Re-state the question?
Description : Could you compose an orphan question on Fluther?
Last Answer : Provided that you won’t come and answer :D
Description : If a question turns into a human being, what kind of a person he or she would be?
Last Answer : He would be a faceless, paranoid, conspiracy theorist.
Description : Can I ask a question in a foreign language?
Last Answer : No. You may put the information in the other language in the details.
Description : What is the best way to get extra clarification on a question, when you feel like you can't give a thoughtful answer without more information from an OP?
Last Answer : You can only lead a horse to water…
Description : Assuming they answer honestly, what is the single most telling question you can ask a person?
Last Answer : If they are from the US: How much do you tip?
Description : What happened to the question about yesterday's terrorist attack in Britain?
Last Answer : I see two questions related to it in Social, was there another one? Hard to believe one would be taken down for subject.
Description : Do you think there should be dislike button for a question?
Last Answer : The problem is, the dislike button will be abused quickly. It's much easier to dislike than like. People will dislike a question out of personal feeling toward the OP, and things get ugly quickly. ... a small amount of likes than let them know there are several dislike next to their little likes.
Description : Are your question asking fields hard to edit?
Last Answer : answer:I have a different problem with the title question field. When I'm creating a question, it is blank until I actually hit the final place where it posts the question. I've never brought it up, ... enough problem. I've honestly never typed more than it would hold. You've given me a challenge.
Description : Can I remove a question?
Last Answer : You can’t remove questions on your own, but I have sent it back to you for editing. I don’t think it would be too hard to just fix the question, but you could abandon the old question and start over if you really want to.
Description : What's the first question that pops into your mind when you wake up?
Last Answer : What time is it?
Description : What is the happiest, and saddest question you can think of?
Last Answer : answer:Let's go for both at once: What is your favorite memory of your deceased child? Inspired by a family member who loved telling stories about her deceased son because it was one of the ... about him. Thinking about him on her own made her depressed, but sharing stories made her happy.
Description : Would you skip a question that has too many answers?
Last Answer : No. I’ll often wait until everyone has had their say and then give a detailed answer often taking the string in a related, but broader area. To do this too early in a thread can either kill it or take it in a direction unintended by the OP and is considered rude.
Description : Would you like a 'favourite' question option?
Last Answer : You can save a book mark in your browser.
Description : How can I delete an old question?
Last Answer : I don’t think you can.
Description : Why do some people fixate on why a question is asked?
Last Answer : Hmmm. I dunno. Why do you ask the question? What are your intentions? I hope this doesn’t poison your thoughts.
Description : Why do you answer a question without reading the details and responses from the OP?
Last Answer : answer:Why do you answer a question without reading the details and responses from the OP? Sometimes I don't, because I think the questions are too obvious to read further details. It's painfully ... Are you really curious? Or have someone here pissed you off because they didn't read your details?
Description : Would you participate on a Q&A site that required you to make a substantive answer to a question before you could see the other user's answers?
Last Answer : I like the basic concept, but would prefer to eliminate the whole modded-substantive-answer part. How about you just can’t see the other answers until you’ve answered. You could still have mods to enforce basic rules and writing standards, similar to ask-public.
Description : What is a SFW question you've always wanted to ask but have been afraid to?
Last Answer : Ha.. My quick glance thought your wants tag was wanks.