Most do not care, but the researchers, historians, and the fashion minded do care. The Oscar Awards are notorious for being a fashion event, and what the celebrities wear at the Oscars is important to fashion historians as well as documenting their dresses in the Mahalo Greenhouse. If you noticed, the ones asking these questions are Mahalo Guides, so they are most likely going to document this information in the Greenhouse, or add the dress photos to the documentation. The people in Mahalo Answers answering questions save them time so they can better research. It also serves as a community opinion. Mahalo Answers also likes to gain traffic to its site, so it's important that questions about fashion are asked, as that's what many people are searching for online.

So, it's two fold:

1. Mahalo Answers posts questions for search engine interest.
2. Mahalo Answers posts questions for user interest and for the Mahalo Greenhouse.

Hope this helps, Smokenherb!

Smokenherb, you have a great username :)

I think that there are two possible explanations to the rash of questions that appear around a single topic in a short amount of time.

1)
Folks are honestly interested in the topical events that occur and post questions in real time.

There are regularly a huge surge of people that are interested in things like The Oscars or The Superbowl when it's televised. I've rationalized this group behavior by thinking that people have a need to communicate and be part of a group. People also love TV. So, combine the two and mix in the Internet and you have a global community focused on a single event.

2)
The other explanation that I have is a little more "tinfoil hat".

Internet traffic is fickle and depends entirely on what people are thinking about, concerned with, involved in, or even watching on TV. At any time, people could be watching television while surfing the Internet OR people could be looking for information after the event has occurred / aired.

So, tomorrow morning when everyone is at their desk and searches for "Best Picture", the people online who will make the money will have the highest (search engine) ranked pages or have the most compelling content associated with what people want to know.

Again, put on the tinfoil hat.... it would be a very effective marketing strategy for Mahalo to purposefully ask questions around popular events to garner the SE positions and the compelling content that will bring in the eyeballs.

for anyone who finds it annoying, they should just ignore any questions involving oscars. just leave em for the ones who like the oscars.

i don't care for the oscars either...i think it's a total waste of time and inane beyond belief. but that's me.

so i just ignore questions dealing with oscars and go on my merry way....except this question of course...ha ha ha.