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Viliam comments on Open thread, Nov. 23 - Nov. 29, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 24 November 2015 09:11:30AM 16 points [-]

The first association I have with your username is "spams Open Threads with not really interesting questions".

Note that there are two parts in that objection. Posting a boring question in an Open Thread is not a problem per se -- I don't really want to discourage people from doing that. It's just that when I open any Open Thread, and there are at least five boring top-level comments by the same user, instead of simply ignoring them I feel annoyed.

Many of your comments are very general debate-openers, where you expect others to entertain you, but don't provide anything in return. Choosing your recent downvoted question as an example:

How do you estimate threats and your ability to cope; what advice can you share with others based on your experiences?

First, how do you estimate "threats and your ability to cope"? If you ask other people to provide their data, it would be polite to provide your own.

Second, what is your goal here? Are you just bored and want to start a debate that could entertain you? Or are you thinking about a specific problem you are trying to solve? Then maybe being more specific in the question could help to give you more relevant answer. But the thing is, your not being specific seems like an evidence for the "I am just bored and want you to entertain me" variant.