What are your subtler motives for asking a question?

Looking good.
Wanting to be seen as brilliant or clever.

The rest of the time, I’m just curious. Or I need some help.

I dont think i ever really have a “hidden agenda” in my questions. I just ask things i want the answer to, and they are usually pretty straight forward questions.

I’ve only ever asked one question on Fluther. I asked because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t the crazy one and I didn’t want the people I asked to know who was involved because that tends to color opinions.

Not crafty enough to ask many sophisticated-type questions.
I admit the “hussein question” was a request in gossamer disguise.

Some of my questions are reactions to things I have seen in the media that I think might be interesting to pass along and get some opinions. Others are basic questions about things I am trying to learn because I just don’t know how to program, or whatever. Then there are some that are related to my continued exploration for a wider understanding of religion and spirituality.

I guess that might be as close as I come to a hidden agenda, but I don’t necessarily craft my questions to achieve any specific goal, at least consciously.

I answer dramatically more questions than I ask. My motives for lots of my questions were based on my naivety and terror about living with a cat for the first time in my life. No ulterior motives or hidden agendas. (Oh, and early on, I needed some tech support for my iMac.)

Are you asking me to reveal my Machiavellian tendencies? Mwaahaahaa

My hidden agenda is to ask questions that allow people the space to open up and explore themselves. It is my hope that this will help people become closer friends with each other, and also, perhaps even with me, though it is difficult for me to believe anyone is interested. That’s probably a function of depression, not an accurate assessment of the world.

Another way of putting this, is that I hope my questions can help folks find a way to be a little bit more open, and have a little bit of fun in the process. Oh dear. This is getting terribly serious. I need to turn a cartwheel or something. Just imagine me cartwheeling down the hill, until I crash into the garden fence. Ouch! That’s a surprise!

I love your questions and responses, daloon. If you lived near me, I would invite you over to hang out on my front porch and drink ice tea.

I asked one question with a hidden agenda. It was one of the first I ever asked. I thought it was an interesting psychological question where the answers could fun.

After that I just asked about things I was curious about.

Hmmm, interesting Q. I think the only time I’ve had an underlying motive was when I asked this question. In fact I may have had two: To provoke a great discussion (which really worked!) and probably to validate my own viewpoint on the topic.

I just asked my first question “to provoke a great discussion” (hopefully) “and probably to validate my own viewpoint on the topic.”

thanks augustIan for the words to sum up my feelings on the question :P

@ uberbatman – That was your first question? Why have you not asked any until now?

@Bri: Not his first Q, just his first Q for this purpose.

OH, hehehehe
He just has such great input I thought “how could he not ask questions to”.

ie most of my Qs were to answer a question ive had like the ignition key locks heh, and Thanks.

Yeah, I tinkered out on that one. I got caught in a logic circle.

Boredom, narcissism, curiosity, self-satisfaction.

No hidden agenda. Most times I’m just bored.

I do it just for fun. It keeps my mind nimble…

@knot; and rebuilding the foundation of your house after Drake has been excavating doesn’t keep your mind nimble?

No…it does wonders for my blood pressure though. :^)