When you ask a question here, do you ask it because it is something that you truly do not know or?

I believe it's both reasons, sometimes I do not know the answer and sometimes I believe my question can help out the others. More often than not, I truly do not know the answer, and as a result the question may or may not help the community at large. It might even help one person in the community, and if I can make someone's day, or help them in some way, then that's great!

The other reason is that I had challenges researching the question myself, or would like another person's opinion to the topic or question. I believe that sometimes two people research the same questions, and you do not even know. For instance, I am researching a vitamin, a drink, or any new product that I want to try, but I do not know much about it.

The site always makes it sound great, but there may be someone else who is interested in this product and may have some thoughts on it. The downside of this is that sometimes people do not really care about your question, and just answer because they want to answer a question. Also, there are a lot of skeptics out there, so someone can say, "it sounds too good to be true," or "I don't believe," without actually putting in the research for the question.

This happened to me the other day, when I asked a question about some vitamin that assists with making you feel younger or some kind of vitamin drink that would give you more power. It's all too easy for someone to say it does not work, or they are a skeptic. Many people are skeptics, but why are you a skeptic, or why not research the product yourself.

I guess that's part of the reason I ask the question, as I believe there is someone out there who has experimented with something or tried something on here. It's easy to ask, not always easy to get the answer you want to hear every time, though.

Seems like we have three kinds of questions. Factual questions, opinions, and stupid questions.

When I ask a question (which is not very often, actually), I ask because it's something I want to know. But I think that there is clearly a potential for the community at large to benefit from it. For example, I was about to ask "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" and I found out that someone had already asked that question.

Bingo! I have answers instantly at my disposal.It's a win-win, in my opinion.

I tried asking questions to gain information but that did not work out well except in the field of questions about Mahalo itself. I don't see how one could ask for the community's benefit, as the questions scroll off pretty quickly, even if one wanted to do so. People seem to be answering questions much more than they are asking them, and that's what I'm doing too.

Perhaps as a result, the questions that do get asked seem to be getting more pointless.

Yes, or I'm searching for opinions. The main reason I enjoy this forum is the ability to hear opinions outside of my own frame of reference. Typically, I consider the best answer one that either directly responds to my problem (for factual based problems like setting up a dual monitor) or presents an opinion or idea that expands my point of view.

I ask questions because I either (a) don't know (b) would like someone else's opinion or (c) want to start a debate about a topic. I love a good debate--especially when I can get someone to logically disagree with me. This means someone who will say "You're wrong; here's why..." and not "that's stupid.

The one I asked was because I didn't know the answer.

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.