Boring question #30: what question is there to ask that will get tons of non-answers only debates?

self-explanatory

Pretty much anything involving politics. I’ve seen a few last about 10 posts before degrading to a debate, but most don’t last even that long.

Boring Question #31: How many times do you plan on asking some variation of this question which is so obviously referencing answers on your other questions?

Is @Hypocrisy_Central is a crossdressing, goat loving, closet ballerina that suffered from a severe birth trauma that has left him’her with multiple deformities of mind and body.

^^ They won’t debate that. Many might even lurva you for it in fervent agreement.

Hmm, shall it be “Should I have my cat declawed with laser?” or “Aren’t you horrible for wanting to save your pet from drowning before saving a stranger?”

<<<—saves cats from drowning by declawing strangers with lasers.

@Blueroses “Aren’t you horrible for wanting to save your pet from drowning before saving a stranger?”
There would just be a cat fight or at best people accusing me of being judgmental, or haughty—wait, they do that now, but they will say there is one more area in which I do it.

Do you really need to ask after all the thoroughly idiotic, shitty questions you’ve asked already?

No more than ANYONE ELSE here…..so…....

@bob_ Forgot to tell you, if you know it is a silly, idiotic question to you, and you still click on anyhow…....I don’t know…..what does that say of your judgment? Just wondering

Anything asked by you, obviously.

I love seeing all the panties that get in a bunch whenever you ask a question. It’s so entertaining! Keep them coming. :)

Really dude, I’m not sure if you think the questions you ask help the site by driving page-views as people find new ways to call you stupid. Or your goal is to promote fighting for your own entertainment.

If there is a number 3

I would love to hear it.

Zombies. I’ll make it happen.

Black people. Bet I got ya beat @Symbeline.

@johnpowell Really dude, I’m not sure if you think the questions you ask help the site by driving page-views as people find new ways to call you stupid.
I don’t need to try and help this site by driving up the page views, I could care less frankly. They can say what they want but they can prove nothing. If anything, they are proving themselves more stupid than I. I don’t answer questions I believe are dumb, asinine, or stupid, my time is way more valuable than that. That makes about as much sense as going to a Mexican restaurant when I want Chinese food then complaining why I don’t see Peking Duck, or Lemon Chicken on the menu. How smart would that is? If you want to see Chinese food on the menu—go to a Chinese restaurant. If people want to show how smart they are answering questions they believe is stupid, or trying to prove me stupid, good luck with that, they can keep wasting their time on them, I am not wasting my time on theirs.

Or your goal is to promote fighting for your own entertainment.
If I were merely trying to start a fight, I know the three to five buzz words that will have them biting at the hood like hungry bass. I am asking questions with serious intent on getting some answers, because the question is too deep for them leaving them to debate, attempt to debunk, or avoid answering the question in favor of skipping the question and finding one they like is their problem, not mine.

Here is my honest advice:

Ask straightforward questions with no hidden agenda.
Leave out the unnecessarily derogatory language.
Get away from the fanciful hypothetical situations, especially those that offer an either/or option so heavily loaded as to try to steer the answers.
Don’t base questions on false premises.
Give all the female body/sexuality questions a rest. Seriously, dude.
Stop labeling your questions as “boring”. If you think it’s actually boring, don’t ask it.
Stop implying that anyone who argues with you about your question(s) is either too shallow, too stupid or too immoral to “get it”. I assure you, this is not the problem.
Stop implying that those people are only interested in sex questions (which are, after all, a very small percentage of the questions asked here.) Ditto, “fluff” questions.
You consistently ask people to ignore your questions if they don’t like them. How about you also ignore the answers you don’t like?
Accept that you are not, in fact, the smartest, most moral or only logical person on the planet. Stop treating your respondents as if they were your inferiors.

TL;DR: Don’t ask questions just to stir shit up.

^^^ Look outside. Brass band, balloons, cheering throngs, and what I hope is the “Publishers Weekly” van pulling up.

Cheering thongs?? Is WillWorkForChocolate outside your window???

Th r ongs

lo l!

@augustlan Ask straightforward questions with no hidden agenda.
Does that mean when I ask a question the way I meant it I won’t have to soften it up to make it less straight forward? If so, I will ask it straight forward again without trying to get there by way of the back alley but through the front door.

Get away from the fanciful hypothetical situations, especially those that offer an either/or option so heavily loaded as to try to steer the answers.
I have a hard time fathoming a question like that in which I was allowed to ask. More times than not questions like that don’t even get to the light of day. I can think of question where the answer is so obvious that it is the waste of a question either answering. I can ask: “you are in a hurry and you have the choice to throw on a plaid shirt of pink and brown, a shirt with dingle berries, or your favorite top, which would you throw on?” but 99.8% the answer to that is already known, it is that easy.

Give all the female body/sexuality questions a rest.
If the question is at the soul of the question, to confirm or dispel myth, double standards or societal views, why not? What is the relevance to asking if this, that is done in the bedroom, or the use of what sex toys? The people asking and/or doing such don’t know if they are doing it right, that they have to ask if others are doing it also. I think those people need to give it a rest as well. What they do between the sheets, kinky, or otherwise isn’t any more important.

Stop labeling your questions as “boring”. If you think it’s actually boring, don’t ask it.
I am giving the potential viewer a courtesy I wasn’t. I am letting them know they will not see anything serious with that question, it is recreation only. There are many times I clicked on a question with a colorful title only to discover the question was a dull as dish water. However, I left the question, and went on to find one I thought worthy of my time. That isn’t too hard for smart people, is it?

You consistently ask people to ignore your questions if they don’t like them. How about you also ignore the answers you don’t like?
I am just asking them to do the same of my question as I do of theirs I don’t care for. I can bypass answering the question but having taken the time to click on just comment how I think the question was dull etc, then move on, and they can ignore it too.

Stop implying that those people are only interested in sex questions (which are, after all, a very small percentage of the questions asked here.) Ditto, “fluff” questions.
I never said sex questions were all they were interested in, (thank heavens this site is deeper than that). However, I can say those questions get more answers and less idle commentary. If those asking already know the answer, why are they asking? I would suspect they are asking the same as why I ask, to find out how many think the way they thought, or go a different way. Rather than wondering about what other people do in the bedroom, I worry more about what I have done in the bedroom with the women I was their with, to care what anyone else did in their bedrooms).

Accept that you are not, in fact, the smartest, most moral or only logical person on the planet. Stop treating your respondents as if they were your inferiors.
YOU WILL NEVER HEAR ME SAY THAT, in fact I am sure I have said many times I am not the smartest, and that I am a man same as anyone else. I have no authority to doom or bless anyone. There is only ONE person who can do that and because I chose to believe He has that authority I am the one who is told many negative things, bordering on me being mental deficient because of my “imaginary friends”, etc. I hope you are giving the same speech to those learned folks who feel their sheepskin from what ever college affords them the right to imply others as stupid, slow, demented, foolish, etc, sometimes in those words, not innuendo. I certainly do not believe I am the most logical person on the planet, but I will ask questions to see where other people’s logic is, or if they are ignoring logic and going off emotion. If we are going to go with logic, then we go with logic, leave emotion out of it, if we are going with emotion, lets go with emotion and it don’t have to make logical sense. I just want to know which playing field I am on.

Don’t ask questions just to stir shit up.
I don’t, I ask question with the serious intent to have a civil conversation about. If I were just trying to kick over the trash can on this site, I know just what cans to kick over, but most would never see the light of day so that is a moot point.

I respect your concerns but I hope that is applying to ALL. Just because 50 people like a question as to what should someone name his new spare tire, doesn’t make it a deep or good question. I am not here to bust anyone’s balls and I hope they are not trying to bust mine because we want to know different things. I can stand on my record that I have rarely, can’t remember every last comment and answer, blatantly disrespected or insulted anyone, even when they have done so to me. If we are going to start censoring questions that the majority don’t like or come up with an acceptable questions topic list on which questions can and can’t be asked, please provide me with a copy.

WTF?

@Hypocrisy_Central and just because you think questions about women’s breasts passing the “pencil test” are “deep and good” doesn’t mean anyone else does. I think they are sexist and ridiculous.

Also, please heed @augustlan‘s advice and stop with the “boring question” thing. It is annoying. If a question is boring even to the asker it is not worth asking.

Finally cries of censorship are unfounded and border on hysteria, so don’t even go there.

I can’t believe it seriously turned into this!!

@SuperMouse Also, please heed @augustlan‘s advice and stop with the “boring question” thing. It is annoying. If a question is boring even to the asker it is not worth asking.
The question is still worth 3 points, lurva, etc. Maybe it is not boring to the asker but a warning that the question is for pure entertainment, there is nothing groundbreaking or earthmoving about it. If I cannot ask the questions I really think is of interest, because others cannot seem to fathom where it is going because they want to debate the asking then what is there? If I wanted to get a general consensus why women hate fishing, based on women I have dated, women I have known, or the mates of others, I would have to ask it. If some woman says women don’t hate fishing but I don’t see women fishing as much as I see them shoe shopping at the mall, I feel I can ask her to justify her answer. Again, how hard is it to avoid a question one think is boring, stupid, annoying, etc. I see many questions I think are that and worse; I simply don’t click on and avoid them, is that so hard?

Finally cries of censorship are unfounded and border on hysteria, so don’t even go there.
Who is crying for censorship? I thought any question so long as it was not attacking anyone, promoting criminality, etc could be asked. I just want to be sure I understand what field I am playing on. If I am told you can ask anything, but not this, that, or any of those things, even though it is not official censorship I want to know if it is some unwritten rule. Ask yourself this, if I told you that you could walk your dog anywhere in the park where there wasn’t an authorized personnel only sign, but then come back to tell you that you cannot go there, there, or back there even though there was no sign posted, would you not wonder how much of the park you could actually use?

@Hypocrisy_Central no one is telling you that you “can’t go there” when it comes to questions. We have merely offered suggestions and shared our opinion that walking the dog in the same old boring section of the part constantly gets really, really, really old. Talk of censorship began with you and I understand that you are complaining about censorship rather than asking for censorship. My point is that when bringing up such a topic is unwarranted and borders on hysteria.

There is really no need to label your questions boring. People who find them interesting will answer them, people who find them boring won’t. The “boring question” label is old and has lost any charm it might have had.

Well, I can see that my honest advice has fallen on completely deaf ears. It’s a shame.