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In the last 'stupid questions' thread, I posed the suggestion that I write a post called "Non-Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions", which would be a summary post with a list of the most popular stupid questions asked, or stupid questions with popular answers. That is, I'm taking how many upvotes each pair of questions and answers got as an indicator of how many people care about them, or how many people at least thought the answer to a question was a good one. I'm doing this so there will be a single spot where interesting answers can be found, rather than members of LessWrong having to dig through hundreds of comments on multiple threads to discover useful answers to simple questions.
I'll publish this post at the end of December, or beginning of January, when this thread is complete. It could be updated in the future, but, by that point, it will include questions asked from ten separate threads over the course of more than a year, which is a lot. It will include this thread, which will be the most recent.
My question is: how should I organize it? Should I sort questions by topic? By how popular the question was? By how popular the answer was? By some other means? Leave your feedback below.
This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in their knowledge, though the fewer and the smaller we can make them, the better.
Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.
To any future monthly posters of SQ threads, please remember to add the "stupid_questions" tag.