How often do you read a question and have no idea what is being asked?
I’ve noticed that this happens to me on a somewhat regular basis around here.
Then, I find myself amazed when another jelly (or jellies) will answer the question and seem to understand perfectly what the asker meant. It doesn’t necessarily seem related to content, but it’s usually the way the question is worded that doesn’t make any sense to me.
Does this ever happen to you? Am I just really dense?
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It doesn’t happen to me often, but it has happened to me.
This happens to me a lot. I usually flag them and by the time I get back someone has someone managed to decipher them and respond so I feel like a bit of a dick.
Am I allowed to answer if I don’t have a flower avatar???
This does happen to me sometimes and I feel like a nincompoop.
Well, er, uhm, I often ask questions that have hidden meanings. Most people answer the obvious meaning, but occasionally someone “gets” the hidden meaning and I’m delighted when that happens. Just sayin’... :-p
@JilltheTooth I would not complaing if I saw Zuppy in my garden.
@HungryGuy I always just assume your questions have hidden meanings.
Not very often. Usually if I can’t make any sense of it, I flag it.
I kinda liked the twang implied by “complaing”. I thought it was cute. :-)
I just ignore them, there are enough good questions that I don’t waste time with cryptic Questions.
Yes, there have been a few questions that I simply could not make heads or tails of, no matter how many times I’ve reread them.
I feel that way about ⅓ of the time. I’ll read other people’s responses and wonder what dimension I cruising around in at the time I posted my own reply.
Happens occasionally, usually with some americanism that goes way over my head.
I just move on to something I do understand, you know, something fluffy & simple.
Having a complex question come out muddle at times, it a byproduct of Fluther. You can use words like [redacted], [redacted], or [redacted] because you would have to edit the question to substitute a poorer word for a word that would go straight to the point. You can use certain links to make clear what you are saying so people are left to their imagination, which can fail them, then they can’t truly fathom the question, and they either blame the questioner, or feel dumb. If it some question of science or economics I never taken, I don’t feel dumb if I don’t understand it, because I just don’t know it well enough to know I don’t understand it. If it is a general and I can’t follow it, I just chalk it up to the question construct criteria that if they could have used more resources, or worded it clearly without getting modded, I would get a better picture.
Sometimes, but not often. I know what you’re talking about though.
H_C, well played. Comments can be gibberish too.
@johnpowell wow, I have never seen that one before. That’s a real gem.
Only some people’s questions – or comments.
All the time, but then I’m kind of a nitwit; plus sometimes I only read every other word of the question instead of all the words. I can be so clueless sometimes. The real problem is when I don’t realize that I don’t understand the question and answering question and answer it anyway. That can be really embarrassing.
Technical questions involving computers, the internet, applications and such almost always leave me flummoxed. It’s my ignorance about the subject, not the questioner’s problem. Occasionally there’ll be a question that’s so wordy I don’t want to take the time to figure it out. For the most part, I think questions are fairly clear. It’s my brain that may not be clear.
Sometimes it looks like everyone else is so confident in their answers/opinions and you’re like whaaa? Am I missing something? You mean these people fully understand this question? Yeah, it does happen now and again.
Many times I read the question and think I understand it, and then I see responses and think, ‘did they even read the question?’
Frequently. Mostly, I mod them. ;)
Some questions seem clear enough on first reading; the details then obfuscate the meaning, bog down with distracting or incorrect examples or wander miles from the point.
I used to suggest editing, shortening or clarifying, but now know enough to save my breath.
@gailcalled
That is quite true, there have been many times I’ve considered answering a question, but after reading through all manner of thought in the details have felt, well should I just leave it?
How do I tie all this in together? Will the OP think I’ve avoided critical points if I just answer the original question directly?
It’s not always the OP’s problem, I tend to get a little flushed sometimes when being unsure how to approach a question.
That, and I just think too much. :)
The frizzer question always made perfect sense to me.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Lol, I can just imagine you guys going back and forth like that all day.
No wait. My brain saw if time goes, always reciprocate speech with funniness til down goes the sun.
That’s true but when you do things your work and like and he don’t.
Ice cream doesn’t have bones :(
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Ice cream does too have bones, at least in our family. My mom once threw some leftover candy canes into the freezer when we were making chocolate ice cream. My 4 year old cousin took a bite and said ‘This Ice cream has bones!’
Since then we have home made bone ice cream every new years eve.
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