A novel idea?

Question

Instead of seeing the same questions over and over, with the same answers - let's just give them all numbers.

For example: "If God told you to sacrifice your child..." or maybe "They found the bones of Jesus" types could be question 243 or maybe 561. With answer either 43 if you agree or 92 if you don't.

"Is God real..." will be question 51, to negate any question put a ! in front.

Evolution and creation questions will be # 76 and #77. You decide. Answers will be #3814 and #9810. Nobody reads these anyway....

Tragic Typos and WSIDR could just keep on going because, well some questions need to be asked....

What do you think?

Skepsis --- you noticed the unhelpful leading question....

And I realy like #782, or was that #728... 278, oh wait - 872.... oh I can see this isn't going to work very welll....

Answer 1

Sounds logical. We could just direct newbies to the FAQ, then direct Y!A to enforce the list. All the new questions would stand out in the long list of numbers (Q: 29. A: 440) and we'd save a great deal of time. (I'm assuming all forms of Pascal's Wager would get #1.) Of course that might cut down on participation, since most questions would appear to have already been asked and answered. Still, there might be some humorous opportunities, such as the juxtaposition of an "evil Mohammed" question and a "Catholics vs Christians" answer. (Q: 228. A: 1315! LOL!)

Now, we do need to deal with the practice of hiding the actual question behind a meaningless header like, "What is your opinion?" or "I have a question?". These are very annoying (especially since rolling over the question for a hint doesn't help). Any suggestions?

Answer 2

43

Answer 3

42

Answer 4

Yeah, it'd save me copying and pasting my stock answer to some of these questions.

Answer 5

I think it would be better if people were to be more original in their line of questioning. But your idea seems fair as well.

Answer 6

See Answer #459122.