When asking a question that requires opinion or preference is it better to give your opinion in the details or to reply to the question with your answer?

Before or after: it doesn’t matter much to me.

My intent was to get other’s experiences and not collect a number of GAs.

You can give me a GA now to compensate lol. But then I’d be ahead by 3 points lol.

I hate questions that end up in the details rather than the heading.

@YARNLADY He/she is talking about my question here where I asked for peope’s experiences and then gave my plan in the details. I guess he/she thought that I should have given my plan for when my braces came off as a response rather than list it in the details.

@tranquilsea Oh, I see. I have seen details that contain the OP’s answer many times. It gives a jumping off point for discussion.

I guess if the topic of said opinion or preference would matter. e.g. If the topic is suspension there could be valid reasons to be biased towards one opinion than the other and under these circumstances I would probably add my preference. If the topic is, let’s say, an emotional event. This would be quite different because the topic is based on a more varying in opposites and differences alike. There’s far more different kinds of people than there is types of suspension. So I guess, preferences & opinions should be chosen wisely based on how wide of a topic should be.

I’m not understanding what you mean by ‘good etiquette for the collective or should she have posted her answer after’?. The OP asked a question of the collective to get their point of view or experience. Many questions are answered by the OP within their own question, yet they still want to know what others have to say. It’s perfectly normal.

I don’t mind either way as long as the questioner is not flogging their own viewpoint in a thinly disguised question.

I never noticed it as the opportunity to get both a GQ and a GA for one question. You’ve made me see it all differently now.
I don’t mind either way.

The best answer is the one you or anyone can give whether it be fact, opinion or wit.