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Hopefully I am not misinterpreting your second line, but asking good questions that elicit insightful responses is a positive contribution, even if the author d
by CamelCaseName 9y ago
Hopefully I am not misinterpreting your second line, but asking good questions that elicit insightful responses is a positive contribution, even if the author doesn't share their own insights or read the responses.
- mtmail 9y agoGood open question are indeed excellent discussion material, no doubt. /r/askreddit (100x the answers) shows that every day. Even when some popular questions come up regularly. I'm just puzzled why even with trivial questions like "what 5 websites do you visit everyday?" or "what skill do you wish to have?" or the more interesting "What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?" a submitter wouldn't share their own answer. And then (sometimes) within the same hour ask the next question.
- mtmail 9y agoFollow-up after checking other submissions: On the AskHN page right now 28 of 30 submissions are questions. 11 times the submitter wrote an introduction usually describing their own viewpoint. Only three times the submitter commented, of those only one was an answer. That means I shouldn't be surprised, it's normal.