How likely are you to answer a question that is poorly worded and you have to really work to figure out what they're trying to ask?
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Babycakes Deux
ANSWERS: 16
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Well, I'm likely to put a snarky comment up, but I will almost never attempt to seriously answer it. I do not come here to THINK HARD about things... but more to interact with folks and to use as a diversion.
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Once I look at a question that has letters in place of words I just move on...it drives me batty!!
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If it's written with loads of abbreviations that have to be translated I ignore it, but if it seems as though it might be a serious question from somebody to whom English is a second language I persevere.
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not very likely at all. If I can't figure it out then I don't even bother.
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If I have taken the time to work the fecking think out, then I will probably give an answer, it may or may not be polite :-)
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I answer the question by rewording the question within my question,as to get some clarity.If a get no comment from the questioner,I assume my could be right or wrong.
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I can not help it, I have to answer it with a nicely worded snarky comment. Sorry, I can't control myself.
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i prolly won't try to figure out what they mean and not answer it. i get annoyed and thats not good.
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Less likely. Not so much poor spelling...could be someone quite young etc. But I will not answer if the question is in text form...you know....not even in English!
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If I understand a little, but I am not sure, and the question seems interesting, I would give an "answer" just to ask for some precisions (at first not a real answer). If it is so poorly worded that I cannot find out if it is interesting, I could eventually answer something such as "please could you give details, I don't understand your question", but in many cases, I would not answer at all. Sometimes it I don't understand a question and it has already been answered, I look at the answers, which could give me some clues what the question is about. Also the question category could give some clues.
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Not very likely.
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I am impossible the question which gives poorly to express by the honor by any type answer. ...Ugh, what the heck was THAT?
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If I can tell that it is simply because they cannot spell well.. I will answer. I am not better than them so why wouldn't I? We all have short comings. The ones I ignore are the ones with too much net lingo and they chop it out of laziness and that is my short coming.. because I cannot stand those kind.
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It doesn't really bother me if I can figure out what it is asking. I'll answer anything that I have an answer to.
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I've answered a couple today that made very little sense and were horribly worded. I pointed out the errors in one question, I'm surprised I didn't get trolled for that. Apparently, some ABers have had a very poor education.
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There are lots of pointless questions - like this one - which are just fun to answer. Many people in the world have poor English skill. When questions don't make sense, it's sometimes fun to speculate and often it's possible to offer people a strategy to answer their own question. I don't like people using language to try to make themselves looking cool - so if you start your question off with 'Problem wiv ma computor' then I'll pass it over - otherwise I'll just go for it.
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