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by RosieGHM Jetpacker on August 3rd, 2009

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Some AB members flood the site with questions..some rarely ask questions. How many questions on one day from one person is "too many"?

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  • by CatLover-The Original is Proudly Canadian on August 3rd, 2009

    CatLover-The Original is Proudly Canadian

    For me the deciding factor is not the number of questions asked by one person, it is the quality of questions. If someone asks 25 compelling questions I will answer but someone else may ask 10 silly questions with no relevance to me. In that case the 10 would be too many.

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  • by Suby the Coat on August 3rd, 2009

    Suby the Coat

    In my opinion 5 questions in the morning and 5 in the evening should be about right.
    We will have enough time to look at the feedback and also answer other questions this way.
    More than 10 questions a day would rob some enjoyment out of the AB experience.
    However I have been asking at this level only for the past few days and before that I used to spend weeks answering questions without asking any.

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  • by shrinkess on August 3rd, 2009

    shrinkess

    There's no such thing. Some people ask silly questions to run up their points. I just ignore questions I don't want to waste my time on.

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  • by Anonymous on August 3rd, 2009

    Anonymous

    If they are good questions, there's no such thing as "too many". Some questions are genuinely helpful because others may want the same information.

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  • by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 3rd, 2009

    Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot

    I think it's really insane to allow people to post more than maybe 30 questions a week. Why do we need all these duplicates of the same questions anyway? I can't even get to all the questions my friends ask because the same people keep flooding the site with hundreds of questions. There should be a limit.

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  • by Spacys back on August 3rd, 2009

    Spacys back

    I agree totally with Subby +5

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  • by BigDaddyBS on August 3rd, 2009

    BigDaddyBS

    I think the limit is 5 every 15 minutes. That would be 20 an hour, or 480 in 24 hour period, max, by AB standards.

    For me, I have only hit that 5/15 limitation one time, when I had a list of about 20 questions to ask.

    I would think that 5/15 minute limitation would be ok, if they also put on a 100-150 question a day limitation per person in a 24-hour period.

    While they are helping AB fill up the database with questions that may draw people in (in many cases), there are those who ONLY ask questions to get to the top of the "most inquisitive" leaderboard. They don't normally comment or rate their answerers. In other words, they are working like "bots". (And they ARE human.) They tend to ask "formulaic questions" (copy-and-paste, and change one or two words) such as "What's the first thing you think of when you hear <something>?" where something changes, and is usually a list, such as state names, city names, musicians, heck, I've seen NUMBERS... . Or maybe they ask "What's the origin of the <nationality> surname <name>?" with a HUGE list of questions that few, if any, CAN or WANT TO answer. I've even seen a couple get upset when told they should rate and comment answers, saying it takes time to do so. While SOME of those questions are fun, after a while, they get tiring and annoying. And, when someone starts going through and answering them, they can take over the home page, especially when they try to "clear the unanswered questions" with copy-and-paste answers.

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  • by therapist on August 3rd, 2009

    therapist

    For me it isn't necessarily the number of them but the quality. If they are good questions than ask away but if they are questions like what is the the best part of Orlando and what is the best part of Chicago (all but one word the same) then 2 is too many. If the person asks thousands of repetitive questions a day it is just for points and is not helpful to the site.

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  • by Scifisuz on August 3rd, 2009

    Scifisuz

    If they are good questions, no limit. I haven't found anyone out there asking more than 8-10 good questions a day. Most are much less than that. I'd like to hear from those who NEVER ask questions.

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  • by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on August 3rd, 2009

    Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger

    51 is too many :-)

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  • by Anonymous on August 3rd, 2009

    Anonymous

    If a question is well-worded and isn't a "homework assignment" from some kid who is too lazy to do his/her own research, then I don't think anyone can ask "too many" questions.

    +5

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  • by fantasy child on August 3rd, 2009

    fantasy child

    There are NO wrong questions.. just silly ones.. I would like to know why people worry about others so much? +5

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  • by Slartibartfast on September 12th, 2011

    Slartibartfast

    Depends on the questions. If they're thought-provoking, amusing or fun, I don't think there is a "too many". If they are deliberately nasty or offensive, one is too many. Pointless or inane, I just ignore.

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  • by Reptar on August 3rd, 2009

    Reptar

    I think Somewhere between 5-10 a day would be a good , as well as setting a weekly limit of 25 or something like that.

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  • by Marguerite on August 3rd, 2009

    Marguerite

    You can ask as many as 5 questions an hour. Asking more than that would be too many. It isn't that easy to ask good questions.

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  • by hahaholly101 on September 12th, 2011

    hahaholly101

    idk never asked a question before

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  • by Over and Out on September 11th, 2011

    Over and Out

    I saw back in 2009, that there was a limit of 20 per hour .. but I'm not sure if that's still true.

    Keep in mind ... if you post too many questions too quickly, it might be considered spamming and you could get PB'd for that.

    I'm just not positive about the exact number.

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  • by Anonymous on September 13th, 2011

    Anonymous

    I know, and they are often good questions, but it is clear they play the system, at least in part, as though it were a game. I want them to be happier and more content in their personal lives so they would have better things to do than be on AB so much.

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  • by A on December 19th, 2010

    A

    If the questions are useful, there is no such thing as "too many". Personally, I have tons of questions that run through my head in a single day and I used to annoy people in my actual outside of AB life because I had "too many questions". Finding AB was a good thing for me because I could finally get them all off of my chest for people who actually want to answer them to answer them.

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  • by Nancy is really struggling right now... on September 12th, 2011

    Nancy is really struggling right now...

    Apparently not...but at least they're good questions, AnonymousGirl...

    :)

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