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mrnemo mrnemo
 
February 08, 2009 05:56 PM

What are your criteria for judging whether a question should be voted as "interesting" or "not interesting?"

I rarely see anyone vote questions either way, but I'd like to see how you would choose. What does "interesting" mean to you? "Unique?" "Important?" "Controversial?" What about "not interesting?" "Poorly-written?" "Redundant?" "Vague?"
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easyeboy easyeboy
 
 February 08, 2009 06:34 PM
Interesting is usually thought provoking, a unique question that you might not think about, yet creatively serves the community in some way. If a question is interesting, it's usually an out of the ordinary question, or a question that I would like to know the answer to myself. It's a question that pertains to a particular interest. A question that I believe can help or interest the community at large is usually more interesting than one that is self gratifying.

A question that is not interesting is usually not helpful, too hard or impossible to answer, requires too much effort for the answer, and could be offensive to some.
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drmatt drmatt
 
February 08, 2009 08:18 PM
I've had a number of discussions about this with the Elite Eleven (hey, better than Twonky Twelve). If it's a factual question (one that requires a simple fact), then it's not interesting or interesting, so it gets no votes. If I see a question that is interesting to me, then I vote "yes". I RARELY vote "no", but if I see a question that is just silly or poor, then, I'll hit the "no" button.

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drivel drivel
 
February 09, 2009 12:06 AM
I have rated a couple of questions as "interesting" because it was a question which I wanted to be answered and I hoped rating it as "interesting" might prevent the Mahalo administrators from deleting the question.

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