Is it me or do I have to wade through a longer list to find a good question lately?

i usually do that too, thought sometimes they are a good question. I just have to expertise in that field.

I’ve always had to sift.

I haven’t asked many questions, but I sure hope I have contributed to the stream of poor questions!

I’ve noticed a change in the questions and a slow down. I’m not one that feels compelled to ask questions, just for the sake of asking them – so I know I’m not helping the lack of questions!

did that make sense?

@cak: There’s actually been quite a few more questions asked in the last two weeks compared to the weeks prior.

It certainly is a difficult task to find a decent, thought provoking question these days (although bad questions can be fun in their own way). In all fairness, however, it is hard to write a truly inspiring question; so lets all give a round of applause to those who do manage to keep the collective on its toes (or perhaps tentacles would be more apt).

@andrew – I am hitting the ones that I need to avoid – I’ve made some very poor choices! I can find the clunkers!

It’s definitely not just you. In fact, if you hadn’t posted this question I would have. I’d been thinking of this for quite a few days now.

P.S. – Just because I hate Heart, it doesn’t mean I suck.

I’m completely amazed by some of the questions I have seen lately.

Doesn’t this happen, though? It goes in waves?

I agree. Too many questions are based on a chat room type atmosphere. And all the “what is your favorite _____?” is getting old. I have been avoiding relationship questions for a while because there are only so many times you can give the same advice. I yearn for some interesting questions too. I agree with @Jayne that it would be unfair to say they all are bad. It is just getting harder to find them. There was a time where I would want to answer practically every question. That said, these things usually come in waves. So I am not too concerned yet and will just hope for this wave to end fast.

Edit: @cak – stop reading my mind :)

@AstroChuck XXOO, my friend. I was funning with ya! (I am still slightly disgruntled that you don’t like Annie and Nancy, but vive la difference!)

@PnL – there is that question about sharing a brain! scary! ;~)

C’mon Marina come up with a question that will rock the socks off all of us…

It’s not you… it’s them. ;-)

Yeah, there seems to be a lot of questions that require one answer. Something that can be googled. I might have been guilty of that when I first found this site

@mij- Except for me. I’m not currently wearing socks.

I was thinking this too. Glad to see I’m not alone.

I’ve had this same thought recently.

I agree with @PnL‘s assessment however.

Yes. It took me ten minutes just to find this question, ;)

Yeah!
—Seems like we’ve solved the World’s problems…
Let’s go get a beer;)—

I feel this way too and I haven’t been on the site for a couple of weeks. What have I come back to?!

I agree completely. I know it’s probably cyclical, but this cycle is…odd.

I’ve been trying to come up with a good question, just to get away from the marijuana, relationship, masurbation and easily Googled questions, but I’m drawing a blank. Seems everyone else is as well.

@evelyns_pet_zebra- Hey! I thought the female masturbation question was both fascinating and informative.
And erotic.

Even Milo is bored. (Although he is pleased to learn that Harp has a crush on him.)

Lots of panning and very few gold particles, I agree.

@AstroChuck As a person who has tried nearly every sexual thing under the sun, and having a wife that is as open and free in her sexual exploration as I am, female masturbation is old news. I understand female anatomy enough to know what a woman likes, how she likes it, and why she likes it. Well, the ‘why’ might be a little sketchy sometimes, as trying to figure women out is a task for Hercules, but there isn’t a G spot I can’t find or a female I can’t make breathless with passion. If any females reading this question my skill or expertise, you are welcome to put me to the test anytime. :-)

@evelyns_pet_zebra: And you’re modest, to boot.

(However, that said, I wouldn’t mind seeing a diagram that pinpoints the G-spot.)

@evelyns_pet_zebra: TMI

So, I’m a little baffled by this question. Whenever I’m not feeling the questions on the main page, I just go to my fluther and I almost away find interesting questions asked a few days ago. In the few cases that doesn’t work, I’ll skim through the q’s for you (which I know needs a little revamping). If I want to find a good question, it takes me maybe 2 minutes.

Is it just that the features are too difficult to use?

@andrew- In a perfect world that’s how it would work. I haven’t had that same experience, however.

@andrew: I have no problem finding questions, just questions of any quality (to me). The search options that you mentioned are very user friendly.

@andrew It wasn’t the features, but the questions that prompted me to ask this. As usually happens on Fluther, it was a temporary drought. I thought there was a real uptick in interesting questions today.

@Marina, @bythebay I was talking about finding “interesting” questions. Is it that when you look in questions in my fluther you’ve seen them all?

Marina, this question prompted me to ask a few I’d been thinking about. Maybe it acted as a nudge for others, too. Thanks for asking it.

Today has been a good question day! I think it truly is just some days are slower than others – people get busy with other things.

For the record, Fluther, overall, has good questions and the discussions are truly excellent.

Seriously i dont go on fluther for one day and i come back to over 150 questions. The only depressing thing is that only about 5 of them are good….
Half the time i just want to hit remove all, but im afraid buried in there, theres a good question, but alas there usually isnt. Fluther please start asking better questions :P.

Did my earlier answer get removed? The one after augustlan’s post above? How odd. I don’t think there was anything objectionable in it.

@Marina No it wasn’t removed by a mod. It would say Removed by Fluther Moderators if it had been. Maybe it just didn’t ‘take’?

@augustlan Right, some people get double questions, and I get zero answers.

Not that it was all that profound. I basically said something similar to what cak said. I thought today’s Qs were much better than yesterday.

(I wanted Andrew to know I did not mean to diss the Flutheric ether, just the momentary lull.)

@Marina- Why do you always have to diss the Flutheric ether?

I think there are a lot of new people, skewing to the young side, asking newbie questions.

Also, I have not had time to find some questions for the last few days. I try to ask three questions per day. A few people have said they like my questions, and I’ve had a complaint or two. I’m trying, anyway. I don’t always hit the spot, but sometimes I get a little traffic.

I do think that this is a dangerous sign. I think it starts to shatter the community when people are having a hard time finding interesting things. Sometimes valuable members leave because of it.

I would encourage anyone who is complaining about questions to try to help out by putting at least one question per day here. They don’t have to be questions you are interested (although that helps), but they should be questions you think will get a good conversation going. I would suggest staying away from relationship questions, unless they are of burning personal interest, or about mature relationships. There are tons of newfound relationship questions already.

I’ve been so swamped at work, there haven’t been many Fluthering opportunities for me recently… but I have noticed that there seem to be fewer I actually want to respond to.
Glad I’ve got My Fluther.

@Hey, Kmd. Nice to see your smiling face.