Why do so many anonymous questions take the form of "About _______ "? Do these really count as questions? What should be done about them?
Does the person asking these questions
a) not realise what the question box is?
b) are the unable to ask a 'real' question?
c) are they wanting to use a question like a chat-room to discuss their topic
d) doing something else that I haven't grasped????
And what should mahalo do about them?
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** I think the "about _whatever subject_" prompt should be removed to discourage the obvious "click and go mentality" that has been going on.
If this prompt were removed then the curious but unsatisfied Mahalo page surfer would be forced to actually ask a question instead of just clicking the "about" prompted ask a question button.
How are we to answer such a question? Seemingly we could direct them right back to the page they asked the question from. Or we could go retrieve information from outside Mahalo but that leads me back to my original conclusion.....
..Our pages are incomplete because complete pages would not need to have hugely vague questions asked from them. The information would be on the page in the first place.
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lol.. you're far to smart for me to keep up...
I hadn't thought of that as an explanation... but how would it explain the one below?
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/anonymous/about-anonymous-questions
I asked that anonymous question as a test.