Are you sick of rhetorical questions about consumer products on Mahalo? Hate fake user spam? Answer this question and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?

I'm not a staff member, but I've been around for awhile (nearly 2 years). And the thing about these kinds of questions is that it can be really tough to tell what's a legitimate question and what's not. For example, last summer, I had to change what shampoo I'd been using when Trader Joe's stopped making it.

I switched to their "new" kind that replaced it--not meant to be an actual "new and improved" but was a completely different product that took its place on the shelves. And it stripped the color from my hair. So I came on here asking questions, trying to get suggestions.

And found a good replacement, I might add. Some people tend to ask thought-provoking or fun questions, and that's great. But others tend to ask questions when they're thinking about which alternative would be best, or how to best use a certain product.

Jason does that quite a lot, I've noticed, which is a great way to crowdsource information. There might be a way to program in parameters: a person can ask no more than 5 questions until the person has also contributed 5 answers of more than 300 characters if a person's account has been flagged for commercial-only questions?

The spam around here tends to come and go. Just a continuing cycle.

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