I prefer just to answer the lighthearted ones. I don't like answering serious questions because you always end up insulting someone and alot of what you are trying to say gets lost in the translation at the other end.

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Yes, definitely. How is "What is your favourite colour?" more useful than "What is the legal drink/drive limit?"? The former is an opinion question, it does not educate, inform or help anybody out in any way whatsoever. The latter does all three, and possibly might prevent someone from landing a criminal record. Not only that, but person A will amass a *lot* of points for the answer "red". Why? How is this a better answer than "blue"? Is it more descriptive, does it challenge the way you think or teach you something that you never knew before? You can argue that the purpose of this site is not about points. But, as these daft questions receive more and more points, they also receive more and more attention, resulting in a skew of the site from Answerbag to Pointlessopinionbag. This makes (in my opinion) the site far less useful and doesn't reward the people who put a lot of time, effort and goodwill into providing deep, insightful, meaningful questions and answers for the rest of uf to learn from. But hey, that's just my opinion. :-)

Speaking just for myself, it depends upon my mood and my attention span..both vary from time to time. When I'm in a thoughtful mood, then the more involved questions attract me..they require more from me and I have to be willing to invest the time. Sometimes I just want to tell someone what my favorite color is..:)

I DIDNT GET YOUR QUESTION. Although I understood the basic idea. Did you mean that useless questions are getting more attention than useful questions?

I think that this is true but that there are a number of reasons for it. First, more involved questions in expert categories will only receive answers from those users that have the specific knowledge required to answer the question. Few people can give in-depth troubleshooting information for a specific brand of computer printer, but anyone can answer a question about their opinion on something. Second, in questions that have a clear answer, many users will not post an answer once a satisfactory answer has already been posted. Opinion questions are never completely answered since the answer is unique for each person posting. Third, many users are on answerbag for the sense of community. It is much easier to learn about other users and get a sense of their personalities through opinion questions. It is hard to get a feel for somebody from reading their answer to a question about a math problem. Fourth, when it comes to points, more people answering your question normally corresponds to higher scores. For the reasons stated above opinion questions will normally average a higher point total than a specific expert question. While it would be nice for great answers and questions to get more attention, the opinion questions exist to make answerbag users feel like they are members of a community. They are the primary medium for conversing with one another and remind us all that answerbag users are not just answer-generating automatons, but unique and individual people with their own lives, experiences, and stories. I have also found that you can sometimes learn more from reading good answers to good conversational questions than you can from learning a single fact.

Yes that does seem to be the case.

To make your question grammatically correct, you should rewrite it this way: "Is it me, or does it seem to be the case that questions that are ill-scripted, mis-spelled, and inane with poor grammar attract an inordinate number of points? Or am I being a scrooge? If so, I am sorry." =)