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28 pointsyinyinwu10 comments

Seriously? "How tall are you" and other extremely softball questions? I think the average question quality on Askolo would increase if they would display the asker's name next to the Q.

Here's another one that had me frowning:

  Q: How did you end up in Silicon Valley at
  such a young age?
  
  A: I flew on a plane from LA. Southwest,
  I think.

It's like a middle-schooler wrote these.

Sahil wrote a blog post about the length of emails: http://sahillavingia.com/blog/dont-judge-an-email-by-its-len...

There are other questions and answers that you should check out. My favorite:

Q: Rails or Django? A: Users don't care so I don't care.

To Sahil's point on emails, short emails were something that were shocking to me as well when I first started interacting with busy people. I took it for rudeness, or dismissive. I know better now and am glad to even receive a reply in the first place, regardless of length.

Being busy isn't ever an excuse to be rude.

Feel free to ask better questions... =)

Wow I didn't realize that Sahil was the one behind Dayta, I think I still have that on my phone from when he asked people to test it.

Q: Rails or Django?

A:Users don't care so I don't care.

If I could pay with my Karma I could give you 1/5th of it.

(sees default twitter bootstrap button, closes tab)

Why? Good or lame reason?

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