What (if anything) do you avoid on fluther?

I try and not avoid any, only time i avoid one is if i am totally clueless or don’t have 2cents to put in :)

I only avoid questions when I’ve been gone for two days and there is suddenly 1923 questions for me to respond to… REMOVE ALL!

@NaturalMineralWater Ditto.

Religious questions.

Well, I avoid questions in topics that I’m not interested in. I’m not too interested in complex computer questions, mental health questions, or relationship questions. But every now and then I find one from those categories that interests me; that’s just in general.

Other than that, I don’t avoid anything if it interests me and I certainly don’t avoid questions based on the user. If the thread is heading in a nasty direction, I may steer clear of it.

As for questions about kids, teenagers, language/grammar, and homosexuality, I can’t avoid those and I must answer them. :)

Religious and political questions almost always
The rest depends on my mood like everything else

“Homework questions”, computer questions (techno-tard), and lately, relationship questions.

i have to avoid all the sexy ladies. for their sake.

@DominicX “I avoid questions in topics that I’m not interested in.” Revolutionary! :P

Questions about computer stuff like HTML and CS4 and W2 and stuff like that….is that even what they’re called? Well, you get the point regardless. ;)

@Ivan

Oh, shut up. :P I meant as opposed to avoiding questions I’m interested in because I think they’ll turn into an argument or something.

I agree with @jmah. Religious questions sooner or later totally derails.

When comments start to get personal and it seems to go into an argument instead of a discussion, I’ve learned to just drop it.

I avoid questions that take too long to read.

I’m lazy.

Homework questions, questions of the type “How can I tell this boy likes me, etc”, computer programming questions, political questions, math questions, those technical questions that read like gibberish to me, and sometimes questions by the people I cannot abide on here. although I did leave a first answer on the latter recently, simply because I knew the answer.

Actually I have to agree with Joe here. Lately, the deciding factor of whether I’ll participate in a question has been its length. Both the details section and how many comments have already been posted. It seems as though I’m willing to read less and less as time goes on.

@Ivan well, if a zillion (fictional approximate number) comments have been already left, I too will move on. No point in reading a bunch of previously answered…um, answers.

Does he like me? How do I get him to like me? Should I break-up with him?

Anything computer related.

If I have nothing to say, I have nothing to say.

Computer/Tech/Gadget questions because I have no idea! I’m the one who has to send an SOS in order to find the volume icon on a computer or ask how to turn on a TV to get channels instead of bluescreen.

I avoid certain questions when I think people are just their to rant instead of having an discussion where they listen to other POV’s. Many religion threads would be an example (actually anti-religion).

I also tend to avoid the relationship questions when there is little depth to them. Unique or deep questions I will answer.

And I tend to avoid questions I just don’t know how to answer.

Religious questions are the ones I avoid the most. If that’s your cup of tea, go to church and stay out of my internet.

I try to avoid questions by both New Zen and Psychedelic Zebra. And you all should do the same.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I should point out that most religious “conversations” had here are held by non-believers.

@Facade That’s very true. They can stay out of my internet as well.

Let’s have a religious discussion about how much we hate religious discussions.

I just want to point out that Fluther is very rare in that not much religious debate takes place here, that’s not the norm on most q&a sites.

I don’t necessarily mean that in a good way.

If “we” hate them why are they always so long?

Yeah, if you think a lot of religious debate occurs on Fluther, you haven’t been on many other sites.

@tinyfaery Because the people who participate enjoy them so much it overcompensates for “our” hate.

As a member, pretty much the only things I won’t answer (or try to answer) are the tech questions. I sometimes read them, though, because I might learn something.

As a mod, it’s my job to wade in everywhere, especially into the messiest questions imaginable!

looks like @AstroChuck needs another time out in the corner. Give the guy an interview, and suddenly he goes all self-righteous on us.

I now avoid questions that have to do with my expertise, philosophy. I’ve come to realize that if you’re coming to fluther to present thoughts like “What would you do in this hypothetical no-win situation?” or “Do you think it’s possible to separate the will from instincts?”, you don’t really want an answer or references to people who have spent years writing about these topics so much as affirmation that your ignorant mysticism is impressive.

I avoid my own questions because I suck at asking questions.

Oh, and sometimes I avoid @Ivan because he’s so controversial.

@Psychedelic_Zebra- ~Oh yeah. That’s when I became self-rightious!

@wildpotato I lol’d. Oh man, don’t think I didn’t see the part that was cut out from that response…LOL

@wildpotato I saw that too. Naughty, naughty.

Heh. I couldn’t resist. Then I decided I didn’t want it to be modded… but I did leave a tiny hint ;)

@jeanna

lolwut

No fair! Self modding means I didn’t get to see it. <pouts>

I don’t get it. I feel dumb.

@Ivan hehe I had to say it.

Religious, computer/gadget questions, politics. But, I do read most threads, if only to gain insight into something I know nothing about. I love that about Fluther!
I also notice @Psychedelic_Zebra avoids any threads regarding children. because he dislikes them But he doesn’t know it yet, but he’s going to make my congrats thread when I give birth. I demand it. lol

@casheroo I like kids, but only after they’ve been marinated with pepper and tequila sauce and BBQ’ed to a golden brown.

*Questions where the asker already has an idea of what they want to hear
* “Does he like me?”
* Askers who are looking to have their ego stroked / fishers
* Politics or religion (just too complicated)
* Tech questions
* Gaming questions
* The non-Googled kind

I also only try to answer questions that I have real experience with, or have looked into in the past. I also don’t answer questions that would require me to disclose too much about myself.

with just a handful of exceptions, overt relationship advice-seeking questions

I get very few questions as of late so I don’t tend to skip many anymore. I’ll usually skip tech questions though.

A lot of the stuff I like to talk about isn’t really a hot topic on Fluther, though every once-in-a-while something good’ll pop up.

Questions concerning politics and anything related to reading.

I never answer questions that have been asked 8 hours prior and already have 46 responses.

That’s why I refuse to answer this question.

The only ones I really avoid is the ones that seak technical advice because 99% of the time I can’t help!

I avoid the relationship questions at all costs. Sorry, but I’m not a mind reader. I don’t know if he likes you, or if she’ll say yes to going to the dance with you.
These types of questions don’t appeal to me at all.

@Allie but she’s a ferret herder and i love ferrets – how could it not work?!?

@eponymoushipster News flash: If she’s a “ferret” herder, she’s not interested in guys (or monkeys).

@Shuttle128 you could always ask the questions in topics that are of interest to you, that usually sparks other Jellies to ask more questions in the same area

@Allie that’s an old wives’ tale

@RedPowerLady True, but the last few questions I asked in those areas died out pretty quickly, plus there’s little I can really ask about Aerospace that I don’t already know….except maybe about the actual practice of it in industry.

@Shuttle128 Perhaps you are thinking too literally. Could you ask something about aerospace (as an example) that would invoke peoples opinions rather than facts? Just a thought. I guess I support your theory though because I know nothing about aerospace and would likely not be inclined to answer on the topic unless you could put it in a really intriguing way.

@RedPowerLady I guess that kinda works. It seems kind of forced though. The discussion of Aerospace or aerodynamics is just kind of flat and doesn’t really lend itself to opinion that much.

@Shuttle128 LOL I guess I can see how that is hindering.

@RedPowerLady I’d be happy with questions such as how airplanes fly or how autorotation works on a helicopter even general physics questions would make me happy, I’m also into philosophy of science, but the majority of people here don’t seem to be interested in that either. I feel like more people should wonder how the world works, but few people ask those fundamental questions here. Either that or they’ve been done to death and they’re bored of them.

We should probably move the conversation back towards the topic

I tend to avoid questions that have a lot of emotional content involved (I’m very logical so I wouldn’t be much good at answering them anyway).

I avoid hurting people’s feelings. And my motto is: heated debates only with people who can handle it.