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  • It depends entirely on the fellow users and whether or not they're looking to answer specific questions within a specified category. I try to answer as many questions as possible, offering quality answers. Sometimes you can receive an answer within a few minutes, if not, within the same hour; other times, it can be several days. It really just depends on us as users. I hope this helps!
  • Chances are I'll answer it right now. RAMA walkthrough: http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcRr/rama.htm Hope that helps.
  • If your Q stays on the "Unanswered Questions" list, chances are pretty good that, sooner or later, someone will try. People look through, and answer, those all the time. Whenever your Q gets A'd, it moves from the much-read "Unanswered" Q's list to the usually less-read answerer's list of A's. (Link is on his/her profile page.) Your profile page and the Q's category page always show the Q. That's great when you like the A. If not, the move usually lessens the chances of more A's, since fewer people will read the Q. That's not to say your Q will languish in obscurity forever. I've posed Q's that received excellent A's long after I asked. Patience helps. I'm sure you'd like the A, ASAP, but that may not happen. Sometimes the person best suited to give the perfect A won't even know ABag exists for, say, three months after you ask. Then he/she comes along, sees the Q and makes that outstanding A. Maybe you'll appreciate the A even more when it does finally show up than when you asked. That's a whole different subject, but still worth keeping in mind. I hope this wasn't too confusing - if I can make anything clearer, just let me know. That assumes I'll understand it myself, but feel free to ask. Bigger miracles have happened:)
  • I guess, good.
  • Lets find out...
  • I suppose it depends on how interesting it is to how many people. [And how much time people spend on the site--naughty me, I really should attend more to my duties!]
  • Being a Brit and posting UK time it seems to me that the guys from the US get much more consistent and numerous responses in their time zone. Maybe there are more of them on this site and perhaps more 'chatty.' Even the dumb US questions get very high scores. Like 'Do you like meat?' or something stupid like that!!!
  • Difficult to say. If you have many AB friends, they might go through your questions and answer it. Or if someone is looking at a particular category, they will find it. And now with the 'Related Questions' box on the right side of questions, it might get additional exposure.
  • I would say it doesn't stand a chance so ask it again just reword it.
  • Once it's off the homepage the chances of an answer drop dramatically. If it has no answers at all the chances go up a bit as someone may look at Unanswered Questions and respond to it having found it there. If it's in a particular category that a lot of people may specifically look in it may stand a better chance. . The big problem with AB is that it's abused by attention seeking 'points whores'. These are the people who post unbelievably vacuous questions like 'What is the first red object you can see to your left?' or 'Do you have a spiral-bound notebook in your house?' I'm not making this shit up sadly; these questions get asked because everyone and their dog can answer them (the tragic thing being that they bother to), and thus the question gets a lot of points. The massive downside for people who want to use AB properly is that these questions crowd the homepage and result in a rapid turnover for good, proper questions.

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