Do you think most of the questions asked on Fluther are uninteresting?

YES
Especially high school relationship questions

not really, just nothing to do with things that i could provide an informed answer to. i just ignore them and answer the ones i know something about.

Like this one?

Yes.

Some of them legitimately are dull.
But I’d argue that most of the ones I perceive as dull, it’s just a matter of opinion. I’d find a question about baseball (or any sport except womens’ volleyball. mmmm) dull, but plenty of people would find it interesting.
And the reverse I’m sure is true. I doubt that everyone loves a good “solve my computer issue” question, but I love them.

What are you bringing to the table?

Find yourself a more exciting site.

I don’t respond to as many, which is a good thing for me. I kind of see this as among other things a platform to articulate and refine what I think about things. Now that I know mostly what I think about things there’s less of a reason to get so involved.

Also, (and this is interesting to see happen) people frequently ask the same kinds of questions. So some questions I responded to with gusto a year or two ago, but since I’ve already been there and done that, I find myself less inclined to help with similar questions nowadays.

All in all it’s a good thing, because like many of us I spend far too much time here.

I find the repetitive nature of questions as proof that there are some things that need to be said over and over again, because people need to hear it with frequency. It’s interesting that people could read past questions, and not see themselves in either the question or the answer, and ask the same question again.

Despite being a generation who has grown up with the Internet, many young people do not appear to know how to search for information effectively with a search engine. I find that interesting. It sort of belies the idea that access to information makes society smarter.

I agree about the teeny-bopper-type questions. Also, all the sex questions are getting old. No one likes sex any more than I do, but hasn’t just about everything been asked? All’s I see are people bragging about their escapades & trying to out do each other. It’s getting boring. I too, am finding it harder to find a question to comment on.

OH, do not get me started on sex questions. Is Google really that hard to use, people?

38.52% are interesting. Good enough for me.

@mattbrowne I LURVE that answer. Did we just become church? How many people have a birthday today?

This isn’t your typical Q & A site, @HLRE. There is a diverse group that make an interesting collective in Fluther. There are plenty of questions on here, tons of topics to search through, people to meet, and fun to be had.

If you’re just looking to answer questions why not search the topics that interest you most? There’s something here for everyone.

@PretentiousArtist yes high school relationship questions really make me mad. Its so pointless to even try a relationship in high school if you ask me. But i have had many bad expierences with them to though/

Fluther is proof that human nature remains constant across time.

If you are uninterested, you are not interesting. Or is that if you’re bored than you’re boring? Oh, well. Works both ways.

I actually like alot of the teenage questions and am glad there’s some really young people here. I find some of the cat and animal questions really boring. Some of the really long tomes about personal wierdnesses are tiring. I usually just read what catches my interest, if it doesn’t, I move on or come back later.

I kind of like it actually. I can ask pretty much any question that google misses. And I can add guidance to kids who need assurance. Sometimes I feel it’s all I have left is to give others the benefit of my experience.

I don’t think there is enough astronomy questions, those really get me going. :)

What teenager doesn’t have questions about relationships? We all did.
So it seems natural that relationship questions come up from time to time.
It’s easy enough to skip the questions that don’t interest us.

I love the astromy ones too, and the alien and robot ones. and some of the really really funny answers to the human functions ones.

I wouldn’t say ‘most’. Some are, but there are plenty that I am interested in.

Yes, I do find the majority of the questions to be uninteresting. But even if every question were new, pertinent, and well-written I think this would be true! And shouldn’t it be the same for everyone? We’re all different, and have different interests. The point of “Questions For You” and looking at your fluther’s questions is a way to weed out the ones you probably won’t be interested in.

The ones I do find interesting are worth staying for. It’s easy enough to skip over the rest.

Not the ones from AstroChuck.

Or NewZen
Actually NewZen’s questions are the best

Sure, some of the are. Even the questions I don’t think will interest me can turn out to be surprisingly enlightening or entertaining.

I am naturally a nosey person so most questions interest me, if I find them very interesting I comment on them!!

Who am I to judge what’s interesting to someone else or to the collective?

Some of the most uninteresting questions on here like the frizzer & pancake questions have become legends of Fluther.

Heck, most of the Hall of Fame Questions seem to be uninteresting at first glance.

I mean who thinks a guy sending ‘em cake at work could be so hilarious?

Each is important to someone, except when someone is being disingenuous, which doesn’t seem to happen very often.

If I am not interested in a question (or the answers to that question more to the point) then I simply don’t view it. There is enough questions on here that do inspire me to take part in or some that make me just read what others have to say as I don’t have the knoowledge to join in to keep me coming back everyday. I would say that I participate in at least five new discussions every day and that’s fine by me.

What I find uninteresting someone else may find really interesting so there’s something on here for everyone.

So much of this, I believe, is a matter of taste. I think there’s a dearth of interesting questions, so I try to ask questions that I would like to answer. The problem then is that I’ve asked the question, and for whatever reason, my sense of fairness says that I shouldn’t answer my own questions.

I hope that I will stimulate more questions of the type I like by asking my questions. But my theory doesn’t seem to hold up. So either people are generally interested in things I don’t care about, or my questions really aren’t that interesting to others. Or maybe something else is wrong with me. I used to really enjoy at least some of certain people’s questions. But even they seem to be asking unoriginal, throwback questions.

Have I just gotten jaded? Or am I just not on the same page with people I once felt a deep connection to? Or, am I just more enamored of my questions than other people are? Probably there’s something wrong with me, since I don’t seem to be writing very good answer any more, either.

I delete a lot of questions because they are not amusing to me. Very few rise to interesting. But I’m here mainly for amusement. For something interesting, I generally read.

I find a few to answer every day. I’ve been on a trip for the past two weeks, skipped several dozen questions that I thought were interesting, but I didn’t have time while I was at the motel, or the questions were too old.

I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say most of the questions on Fluther are uninteresting but there are many of them, no doubt. I think during my time here at Fluther, I’ve become more selective through the months in regards to answering interesting and/or intriguing and/or challenging and/or subject specific questions rather than sporadically throwing out responses like I used to do in the past.

I have a bug up my but about the meta web (Twitter) talk… It’s beyond unproductive. I would actually like to talk to reconnect with people who want to be clever, or pithy for the sake of a lost art of conversation and free flow of communication in full sentences I can diagram, if I need to, but because sometimes I CRAVE the web of the late 90s. You don’t have to send out an “hello world” and respond to questions in a reflexive manner. There is obviously no echo in here. Tapping the collective intelligence is asking clever or silly questions that result in entertaining responses or knowledge gained. People who fear the web staying static simply don’t think they have anything interesting to say. Or maybe they’re not used to it … Facebook is a ghetto when it comes to social activity that’s interesting (just my opinion) …

But here’s what’s totally contradictory about worrying about whose moderating and anonymity on Fluther. If your also on Facebook and doing nothing, which is for ex taking quizzes about your friends, then your FEEDING into the cookies and spyware world people fear. See how ridiculous it is to wonder about what moderators are spying on? They are NOT viral marketers, and the content published here primes for better web abilities and adaptations ….

Ex. Why can I lead the horse to water but he won’t drink? I’m interested in sayings or truisms you don’t get or f-up because your brain is dyslexic when something is inane (because things that are patently obvious that are repeated over and over usually stop making sense). Given that and the directionally and syntactically rigid nature of a sayings, your chances of reversing the outcome of a null hypothesis is 50/50. That is you become confused and think the horse is made to drink the water but can’ t be led to it. It turns out that horses ARE stubborn, ALTHOUGH they usually do, in fact, drink, eat, shit stuff when your leading them on a trial or right before a jump, they’ll just stop, it’s precisely bc they’re stubborn that when you lead them to water they actually don’t do what you want.

Now that’s not an insight that can be found on Ask.com.

butt.

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. It is not so much the questions yes teeny bopper high school romance questions get old such as the ignorant what about sex questions it is the answers. People tend to read past the question or put into the question what was never there. Instead of trying to read the question and answer it logically in the spirit the questioner asked it they let emotion or personal opinion run amok. Second to that are people who rather nit pick grammar or spelling if even how one phrases something then get on with the business of answering the question; if they have no answer then they should pass on the question not take up space trying to lambast the question or how someone else answered it.