Should questions be marked uninteresting if someone asks a bunch of generic questions at once? I think they should?

I'm not sure that marking the questions as "uninteresting" is the best way to handle this. Instead, this needs to be something that the community should try to help the poster see as a possible misuse of the site. Perhaps, when something like this happens a well known/power user of Mahalo could direct message a poster to inform them that, in an attempt to keep Mahalo clean/organized, it is best to try and formulate one in-depth question instead of a bunch of similar questions.

Not only does this give the person asking the questions one place to go for all their answers but it also allows those that want to answer a chance to shine with a truly GREAT response. As @buddawiggi mentioned, this could also be caused by people using the twittersearch tool... having not bothered learning how this tool works (I'm not a fan of all the pointless twitter questions that seem to come in, I would much rather see this site focus on in-depth/high quality questions) I don't want to speak to this being a possible reason... though, I would say, if this is the case perhaps someone that has experience with the tool should take the time to help people better use it.

I think you're talking about a user who posted a bunch of questions today. I actually found his questions anywhere from normal to very good. I didn't think that any were uninteresting.

He wasn't asking the same question over and over. He asked a series of related questions, each of which was appropriately asked separately.

Albalian that might have been my fault. I am trying to perfect my understanding of the twittersearch import tool and I might have been the one who imported so many similar questions. I apologize if this was irritating or seemed unhelpful.

No, I don't think so. Maybe they spent hours preparing them in text and then brought them over. No question should be marked uninteresting just because.

If they aren't interesting to you then yes by all means mark them that way. But not just because.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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