Random question about other forums

[Saito2]

This scenario has never happened on here but rather on a 1:1 car site (and many times at that). The situation: A relatively simple, quick question is posted, so quick its often in the thread title. It gets many many views, yet no one answers.

Fictious example: Thread title=What color is the sky? Thread body= Title pretty much sums it up. What color is the sky? Thanks.

Result? 128 views and no answers. My question is, why click on the thread if the question is in the title if you have no intention or are unable to answer the question?

Just a random question I've always had about other forums...

[Willy iine]

Yeah, kind of like the Hillary syndrome ..people thinking someone else will help .. yet no one does.  

 

[GeeWings]

I guess it depends on whether the answer is as simple as the question

Often people are inquisitive; "is there more to this post? Let's take a look..." but then they realise they understand the question but can't contribute an answer.

[Frog Jumper]

I’m just here for the views…

[FoxShot]

3 hours ago, Frog Jumper said:

I’m just here for the views…

Seriously though. 

 

That does wind me up just a tad too!!

[Re-Bugged]

I’m just simply not great at writing, and if you add in the fact what could get lost in translation I’ll read a reply back to myself and struggle to understand it myself. Chuck in some emoji’s and it’s like trying to read the notes inside a pyramid. So then I think I’m just adding to the confusion and delete.

Often being time poor doesn’t help either as I often don’t have the time to re-write something.

Always interesting to read other people views and perspectives though. 

[Superluminal]

Some forums have a limit on the characters that can be put in the title so there might be additional bits in the main body of the actual post which mean it cant be answered simply - and the only way you would be able to see the content of the post is by clicking on it and therefore adding to the view count - an example might be;

Ie "What colour is the sky?"

Oohhh oooh Im going to smash this one.....

"What colour is the sky.....if the atmosphere was 99% Argon?

Goes back to Tamiyaclub

[Frog Jumper]

12 hours ago, Saito2 said:

why click on the thread if the question is in the title if you have no intention or are unable to answer the question?

 

For myself, I tend to read everything whether or not I have useful info to add. I’ve learned a lot of useful stuff by just reading.  

[SlideWRX]

Do you need someone to go to that thread and answer it wrongly, so that someone else will come in and give the correct answer? Some rudeness may help as well; it is the internet after all.

"The sky is yellow.  Seems pretty obvious newb!"

[Aerobert]

As @Frog Jumper already said I also read most of the threads here, at least the first posts. As I am not a native English speaker I'm always a little bit reserved to avoid confusion from wrong diction. 

 

BTW: In Germany the answer to the question of the sky colour would mostly be:

"This question was asked many times before, use the search function!"

 

[SupraChrgd82]

Not sure which is more exasperating…..no answer vs. dozens of “why don’t you do it my way instead of your way” answers that don’t even address the original question.

[Saito2]

17 minutes ago, SupraChrgd82 said:

Not sure which is more exasperating…..no answer vs. dozens of “why don’t you do it my way instead of your way” answers that don’t even address the original question.

The latter is worse. No answers doesn't really irritate me but rather confuses me when the question is simple, direct and in the thread title. I'm kind of stupid myself, so I figured I might be missing some aspect of it. 

There's also the askhole who will ask if they should do A or B. They will get dozens of replies answering B but will continually re-ask and re-phrase the question hoping for answer A. In the end, they'll ignore everyone's advice (which they asked for in the first place) and do A anyway. lol  

[Willy iine]

3 hours ago, Saito2 said:

The latter is worse. No answers doesn't really irritate me but rather confuses me when the question is simple, direct and in the thread title. I'm kind of stupid myself, so I figured I might be missing some aspect of it. 

There's also the askhole who will ask if they should do A or B. They will get dozens of replies answering B but will continually re-ask and re-phrase the question hoping for answer A. In the end, they'll ignore everyone's advice (which they asked for in the first place) and do A anyway. lol  

Oh yeah, I know those types as well.   

I learned a new noun today.. askhole.   

[GeeWings]

I don't know if it makes you feel any better/worse or indifferent but I'm on another forum. It's much bigger and more active than TC (over 14,000 members, typically 300-500 visiting at a time) and it has a dedicated "ask the forum" forum. Here are the current view to answer ratios of the most recent question threads:

[Wooders28]

I might be guilty of that on 1:1 car forums.....😬

Usually, it's because it's a question I was going to ask, but felt daft asking, so hoping for an answer! 

On Facebook, people comment with "F" (for 'Following ') so they get a notification if anyone replies.

 

11 hours ago, GeeWings said:

It's much bigger and more active than TC (over 14,000 members, typically 300-500 visiting at a time)

Just to add, TC has 56412 members and hit 778 online (according to the number stats down the bottom)

[GeeWings]

33 minutes ago, Wooders28 said:

I might be guilty of that on 1:1 car forums.....😬

Usually, it's because it's a question I was going to ask, but felt daft asking, so hoping for an answer! 

On Facebook, people comment with "F" (for 'Following ') so they get a notification if anyone replies.

 

Just to add, TC has 56412 members and hit 778 online (according to the number stats down the bottom)

I wouldn't pay much attention to those stats. The other forum says 14k members with 38,500 the most online  Online stats are skewed by timestamps, cache refreshes, bots, etc.

More relevant might be that they have 250,000 topics and 11.9million posts. Here we have 97,000 topics and just 900,000 posts. 

Anyway, was just trying to illustrate its a common trend. Go look on Reddit if you're brave enough. I bet they have several hundred looking for each actual responder.

[Wooders28]

15 hours ago, GeeWings said:

Go look on Reddit if you're brave enough

Bad enough, with the ones I'm on the now, without any more forums! 😬🤣