If you have to research before you ask a question, just to get ideas for a question, why ask the question if you already know the answer? Are people so desperate for points that a person can ask 50 questions a day that are only to get points?
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Mort The Conqueror
ANSWERS: 3
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I think you answered your own question already, Bud. People are desperate for points. Quite sad, really.
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If somebody wants to ask 50 questions a day that's up to them. If somebody wants to ask questions with the sole aim of getting points that's also up to them. Neither of these things do me any harm so I don't care. I do care when somebody asks a question that's a very thinly disguised attack on an individual. I'd rather answer a dozen manufactured questions than one that amounts to a personal attack, as this one does.
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Sadly, yes there are desperate people here, and a lot. I have seen people make MORE than a hundred questions a day by simply changing a single word in the base sentence they're using. Try looking up some of the people judged as 'most inquisitive' in AB. You'll find a bloody lot of them-- there was one who asked questions about an online game [Neopets] and his questions went something like this: "When was the game "Kacheeker Seeker" added to Neopets?" "When was the game "Ice Cream Factory" added to Neopets?" "When was the game "Evil Thade" added to Neopets?" "When was the game "Turmac Roll" added to Neopets?" "When was the game "Kacheeker Seeker" added to Neopets?" "When was the game "Snowmunchers" added to Neopets?" This kind of questioning infuriates me because: 1. If there's such a thing as question-spamming, this is it, and serves no other purpose than to increase the question count of the poster, and 2. These questions are the kind that belongs in my book of "I don't care". Reading it wastes time. Trying to answer it wastes effort. And posting it to begin with only wastes existensial space in this dimension.
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