I don’t get it. Without any sort of posting guidelines, how is this any different than asklemmy? Both communities come from subreddits but over there, Askreddit was for general/public opinion questions and nostupidquestions was for questions you feel stupid for not knowing the answer to. Over here, both posts are acceptable. And this one seems to get way more vague “what do you think about X?” posts.

So what’s the point? Why have two separate communities on the same instance for the same thing? Most posts here are, frankly, stupid questions. The post that inspired this question was the one about Harambe. Come on lol

  • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
    12·
    2 days ago

    That was my understanding as well but if you look at what’s getting posted here, that’s clearly not the case

    Doesn’t really matter how you sort (active, top week, top month, etc), most of the questions are open-ended/opinion.

    • SincerityIsCool@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      All of those strike me as questions that an asshole would call stupid or is otherwise inappropriate for ask. In order:

      It probably has a simple process answer. Some people might read it as a mean spirited question.

      Very specific. This one was also crossposted a lot so I wouldn’t read into the community choice.

      This is about tv so probably would fit better in a tv community than ask.

      OP hasn’t heard of inflation. Though even adjusting for that and “new content” the answer is probably a very simple “yes”. Not much to discuss.

      Not sure if this is a can we or should we, but this isn’t really an ask question. The former has a very straightforward answer (yes, it’s the same protocol)

      My take is no stupid questions is for questions you’re afraid to ask anywhere else. As long as it’s not hate speech masquerading as a question I ain’t downvoting you, no matter how stupid the question is.