How much thought do you put into your questions?

You don’t want to know.

Believe it or not, I have a fish bowl. In that fish bowl, I have placed various snippets taken from documents of all kinds. I reach my hand in the bowl, and pull out three or four or six (never five and never any other number) snippets. Then I put them together in a way that makes sense to me. Voila! A question.

You really don’t want to know how I come up with the details! ;-)

I guess it depends on whether I’m posting in general or social. I’m really looking for answers then I try to be exact in my explanation so that people know exactly what I’m looking for and so I can get the best feedback. If we’re talking about social questions, I feel that people are going to give more expressive responses if you give them more to work on. Thinking that, I like to keep my questions broad and open to interpretation so that people can really dig into it.

It depends on whether the topic I’m broaching is a trigger for me. If so, I spend more time on defining parameters for the question and for the askers so that it doesn’t get out of control.

I don’t ask many questions ,but when I do,I expect to get some good,helpful answers along with a laugh and I usually do ;)

@wundayatta : Oh, but I do want to know, and I want to know what’s in the fish bowl. I guess I’ll just have to stick around to find out…

@hawaii_jake Oh, I am pretty darn sure that you, of all people, know what’s in the fish bowl, and also know where the details come from. Yes indeedy!

I don’t ask as many questions as I did when I first joined. I usually just ask questions now when I need help with something, so I put much thought into my details because the question is important to me.

I may ask a silly question in social now and then. usually after having a drink or two Those questions don’t require as much thought.

If I want an answer to a problem, then I will word it as correctly as I possibly can, in order to get a solution.
If I am looking for many viewpoints, then I just type what is in my head at the time, and look forward to the many varying answers I hopefully will receive.

Generally a lot more goes into my questions than my answers. As I don’t run into too many things I need opinions on that I can’t satisfy with a search engine search! IXQUICK.com is my ace in the hole for everyday questions and answers.

I don’t ask questions unless I genuinely need or want to know the answer.

I usually sit on a question for a while once the idea comes to me:
to make sure I want to ask it.
to confirm the details.

Honestly? Right off the top of my head. Spontaneous gestures more than anything else. Constantly amazes me that they get as many responses as they do…..well some of them anyway. I guess that’s thanks to the good folk on fluther. Yeah you know what? That’s an oppurtunity too good to miss….........

A big thank you to anyone who has ever answered any of my questions. My gratitude knows no bounds!! :¬)

It’s usually my thoughts or other peoples’ thoughts that prompt me to ask my questions, and I often think about them a lot before I ask them on here.

Some are given lots of thought but most of the time they come from something I read or heard or seemed to experience differently than others near to me and I’m curious to find out more.
Once in a blue moon it just comes from bordoom.

I ask two kinds of questions generally and rarely even those. One kind is the basic knowledge or ideas kind like today’s cauliflower recipe or one on what to look for when buying a t.v. The other is the discussion-provoking kind. I never ask questions to use up my quota; if I ask two or three a month it’s a lot. When I do, I try to be as clear and concise as possible and if it calls for it, perhaps a bit witty. My favorite question of the discussion sort was the one I asked about child abuse and the preservation of art and the discussion was a doozy. So yes, much thought goes into it.

I agonize for days over good questions. Seriously. I start thinking about them in the shower and most days I’m unable to come up with anything worth asking.

And then I just randomly throw crap up there sometimes as well…

@hawaii_jake before I answer your question, would like to say that you ask some of the best questions on Fluther.

Depends…like this morning, i was having computer problems and did not spend much time on my question. Some questions require lots of thought and other don’t. On this one question that I must have spent more than an hour working on and hit the wrong button while trying to edit my question….gone into cyberspace!

@BoBo1946 : I am genuinely touched. Thank you.

@hawaii_jake you are very welcome my friend!

I ask very few questions, 73 in my 2 years and 2 months on Fluther, so generally, I ask something I truly want an answer to or post someone’s 10K or 20K party.

Whatever pops into my mind. I am always surprised when they aren’t modded, and when people answer. I’ve asked about 700 or so by now. Sometimes, it’s just to start a conversation – and I’ll ask something controversial, or play devil’s advocate – intentionally.

I always have opinions on everything, and I rarely spend much time contemplating what I am going to say. My head is completely full of ideas which I love sharing. When I first discovered question and answer sites in January 2006, I answered 100’s of questions a day, now I down to a few dozen.

I always get these fantastic ideas for super interesting and insightful fluther questions when I am walking my old dog in the morning. Then before I can get home and pose them to the jellies, I forget what they were!

@ucme Ooooh….. you are such a smooth talker :))))

@partyparty Uh huh, thankyou very much :¬)

@partyparty i’ve always been told to watch those “smooth talkers!”

@BoBo1946 Hey, now who rattled your cage!?! Mr.BoBo :¬)

loll awww…it needed rattling!

Does a kneejerk reaction count as thought?