A Question For People Who Have Been On Here For A Few Months - BUT New People Should Read It Too?

A Question For People Who Have Been On Here For A Few Months - BUT New People Should Read It Too! Fellow "old-timers" have you noticed an annoying trend among questions lately? Other than the fact that the bulk of them seem to be from people wanting to know about ipods and their Amazon account - any legitimate questions are incomplete and its next to impossible to figure out what they're asking because they don't use this little box to type in details.

New people - we'll be more than happy to answer your questions if you go into detail, but if you just type in a question and then fail to go into detail, its safe to assume you're going to get some sarcastic answers back and will be insulted many times as well. And for cryin' out loud - use the Spell Check feature! Some questions look to be written in incomprehensible gibberish and are totally undecipherable.

Then you wonder why you never get any answers or just get sarcastic comments? Go into detail....use Spell Check....that'll make a world of difference. Asked by OldppieHatesNewAV 45 months ago Similar questions: Question People Months Read Amazon > Askville.

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They finally wore even me down I have been a hold out when it comes to voicing opinions about the “quality of questions lately. ” I’ve always said things like it goes in cycles, in a couple of days it’ll be better, Askville never said the questions need to stimulate discussions worthy of Nobel prices. But Old I think I gotta finally join the band wagon.

On even the worst of days, I usually can find 2-3 questions to answer. But this last week or so has been awful. The number of questions that should be directed instead of Amazon’s customer service has ballooned.

Someone put in ½ line description of what they were looking for and actually typed “Shop for me. ” Um, no! Not even if you’d said please.

I don’t know what’s going on with Askville. The influx of poor quality newbie questions makes me wonder if there’s been a campaign somewhere to drive users here and increase the number of accounts. The relaxing of the rules around detecting multiple accounts that Paradise and Lin demonstrated is dismaying.

Well, let me try to go back to positive. There have been other times when we’ve had influxes of newbies with little commitment to Askville and little understanding of how the community works. The yearend push for the gift cards is one huge example of that.

But they all went away and we were fine, up until this latest influx. Hopefully they’ll all go away or get with the program. It would be nice if they’d get with the program because some new blood would be nice, but if they go away, that’s fine with me too.PS: thanks for the opportunity to level up in Gibberish.

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I've been on since August and what I've seen are some definite trends I’ve noticed the incomprehensible rash of answers and invariably they are 1st time questioners. A couple of times when no one has DB’d them, I have pm’d them explaining how to do the question and they have rewritten it. I have also seen the sarcastic DBs and wonder if that isn’t kind of a rude greeting for a brand new visitor.

The Amazon customer service questioners must really be in a fog. In order to ask the 1st question they have to go through the profile page. Don’t they think, "Why do they want to know what high school I went to?"

Then they get to the home page where the first thing they see is What rank was Elvis when he was discharged? Or Which candidate would Jesus support? And it doesn't register that those aren't customer service type questions.As far as the recent flood of tech questions go-there have always been the questions about computer add-ons and upgrades of hardware that I would have just paid the Geek Squad to do instead of asking strangers about.

I have a theory about all the iPod questions, I think they are middle agers who got the iPod for Christmas and have figured out how to download & play the thing and now want to learn things not in the book. The first half of January we saw a lot of 'homework' questions as semester finals were coming up. Six weeks before that it was what to give kids for Christmas.

From Sept to Nov there was a lot of far right of sanity political stuff. I thought that would come back during the primary season but the recent political questions have been much tamer.(I once got attacked as unAmerican for saying drying clothes in the open air might be preferable to using a dryer) I guess when the President's approval rating dropped below 20% there was a epidemic of apoplexy. BTW, Old there was a whiff of crotchety in this question.

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Yes, I have noticed it. Paradise. T and some others have noticed that lately you can ask a question here without signing up for an account.

I think that has contributed to the increase in the number of "help-me-figure-out-Amazon" questions here, from newusers with just the default names and avatars. A few times I have seen the homepage completely filled with such questions, and no questions from people with recognizable names and avatars. These "drive-by-askers" don’t know that the extra box for asking their question is for details, so we only get the one-line questions.

And people who are just looking for quick help are less likely to use proper grammar, especially if they think they have a strict character limit, and less likely to notice the step with the box where they can type in details. (Why is that an extra step anyway? "Ask a question" button ought to go just straight to the place where they can type in their _whole_ question, title and details, at once.) Asking someone if they want to sign up for an account at least makes them pause and think if they really want to ask it and bother to come back and log in again later to read the answers.

And I also think we will soon be noticing more Appeals to vote on. Those questions asked without an account can't be voted on by their askers later, because they can't log back in without an account..

What got me interested were the questions and answers I always thought and still do that the attraction to askville is just that "ask" questions to get answers or start an interesting discussion. Yes, take the time to write out your question, not everyone in this world is literate in texting, and perhaps some day you'll have to write a full sentence for a job. Sorry, I wasn't going to get snippy about this.

Shortcuts work for some things, not others. As for the technical questions, yes someone can answer if they understand what you really want and no we are not a homework service! But if someone would, like myself, is curious about something, about how other people do something or feel about something, ask the question, get an answer.It's really a simple concept.

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