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Why do people downvote questions in the thread entitled "stupid questions"? The entire point seems to be "If asking this question would ordinarily result in a status loss, you can safely post it here." Yet I've come across a few questions in this and the previous thread with negative karma at the time that I read them. The message I take away from that is that "Of the people reading this question, the majority believe it so stupid that it doesn't belong in a thread explicitly for stupid questions." Is this the wrong message to take away from such patterns?
Apparently we need a thread for questions too stupid to make it into the stupid questions thread :-/
This recurses well :-D
I think it would make sense to disable up/downvoting for top-level comments in 'stupid question' threads, actually. This would have the added benefit of attracting conversation from lurkers and 'outsiders', without the danger of having the whole forum go to hell. A little outside opinion would always be welcome.
I haven't downvoted (or read yet) the questions here but do you not think that there are questions too stupid to ask?
In principle, there are possible questions which can be fully satisfactorily be answered with JFGI, but I can't remember any of those in the LW stupid question threads.
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(Reply no longer required. Thankyou Benito.)
Totally out of order. Sorry.