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Should we be more enthusiastically asking questions to build content on here? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by carbunkie@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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Over many years of using messageboards, forums and reddit, I've had the 'search, don't ask' ethos drilled into me, the idea being that creating new threads to ask simple questions is a bad thing because it decreases the signal-to-noise ratio of content.

But now that we're trying to grow a new platform, it occurs to me that a lot of appeal in established platforms is the searchable index of knowledge that has come out of people's questions being asked and answered.

In light of that, do you think we should be creating question posts more enthusiastically to build up our library of information, even if it might be stuff that could potentially be answered by doing a reddit search?

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[–] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Another thing to do is, if you happen to find the answer to your question in your own search, to post a TIL. People who didn’t know the answer to your question, nor had the question to start, can learn something!