Honest answers only....please?

Question

When posting a question or answering a question, do you generally do it to help someone or are you trying to cause chaos?
Please dont get me wrong...there is nothing wrong with an honest debate.....but all of the ridicule and hostility. Is it really necessary?

Nicely said Lady Morgana! My thoughts exactly!

Answer 1

When I first started participating here, I did start out with some answers and some questions that were designed to get people arguing or to make someone mad. I'm not proud of it, but it is true. I have come around to feeling that that sort of behavior belongs in pre-school and not among intelligent adults. Also, as a dedicated pagan and Witch, I want to do my people proud and conduct myself with honor and let my truth guide my words, carefully and sincerely, knowing at all times that others have their own truths which may not be mine, but that is OK, because it all leads to the One.


I wish we could all try to honor each others' beliefs to the extent we are able, and at least stop being so hostile to each other. I have no doubt that we would not act this way if our exchanges of ideas were conducted in person. So, perhaps we could try pretending the person you are replying to or asking a question of is standing right in front of you, an dsee if there might be a bit more restraint. One can hope...

Great question, as usual!

Bright blessings!
Lady Morgana )0(

Answer 2

Well, I try to avoid ridicule and hostility.
Nevertheless, I direct my Q's in a manner that generally has to ellicit a very gutteral response.

I know that many times what I say will be so new to people that it will be rejected; if that happens, I don't worry; this happened to Einstein and Galileo and was a grave fear of Sir Isaac Newton for 20 years before he finally unleashed some of his withheld breakthroughs as well. It has happened for the great bulk of human breakthroughs!

I know that the great Bulk of the community has been thoroughly indoctrinated by the 'powers that be' out there - formal education, especially.
Academics [the Establishment] have always been the hardest to move, and most 'drones' in society are afraid to move without them!
After all, educators' have been like their mothers for 13 years by the time they leave school.
So, I don't really expect my breakthroughs to receive much sympathy.
I'm sure it will take quite some time - maybe many decades.

Answer 3

There are three main types of questions:
1) Those which ask for an opinion.
2) Those which state an opinion masked irrationally as a question (aka a rant)
3) Those which ask for facts.

It does not matter which type of question I try to answer, I always try to provide the best possible considered opinions even when it may not be what the asker wanted to see. With rare exceptions, I always try to give the asker the benefit of doubt that he/she wants genuine help, even when the questions are opinionated, rude, or bigoted. Hostility, therefore is rarely necessary in debate. :)

Answer 4

If someone is asking an honest question, then I will try to answer it the best way I know how. If someone is asking a question to be an a**, then I will answer them back the same way. I don't ask that many questions, but when I do, it's not to cause chaos, it's because I really want info.

Answer 5

Seriously though...

I usually answer a question as sincerely as I can. Many people ask good questions that are thought-provoking and cause me to give pause and reflect, and those are the ones I almost always respond to.

Then there are the questions which are clearly intended to ruffle somebody's feathers. I only occasionally respond to them. If I found the question to be funny I'll play along and give a similarly indecorous response. But if the question just oozes of smugness and hubris (on R&S there's plenty of that on both sides), I often respond as well. That's the only time I might get a little snippy (I have once had a response of mine deleted), but I don't like to get nasty and wish others wouldn't, either.

Answer 6

Sometimes a bit of both.

It depends on the question, the questionher and those who read this.

Chaos is caused by presenting alternative views that may shatter the individual or reader.

You get an Atheist who is citing Big Bang like it's supposed to knock our socks off and your remind them a Catholic Priest proposed it and now you are attempting to knock their socks off.

You, because they think a Dawkins though it up, not a religious guy.

Not you are deflating their attempt to undermind

That's Chaos, plain and simple!

Answer 7

sometimes I have asked a practical question I am just trying to find the answer to. Out of the five or six times I have done so, only once did someone actually give me a useful answer that solved my problem. So, Y! Answers appears to me to be of limited value for actually finding out information. The rest of the questions were not to help anyone OR to stir up trouble. They were just for curiosity and / or entertainment value. That is what Y! Answers is best for, entertainment when you are bored.

Answer 8

Well!!!!!!!!!!! In technical Q, I would not have any drawback of deciding upon it.. I will choose the right or reply extra closer to the specific reply (if no person is right!!) because the quality. Also, if a few individual make humorous feedback with right solutions, they are going to be the primary selection. Else, First come First serve.. In different Questions, I suely have the drawback. Some occasions, my Q could were responded by way of virtually such a lot of my favorite contacts . I will in a first-class heck!! I will deliver BA to a few one else who has given close correct reply!! And if I am in a larger drawback, I will choose BA by way of Thumbs UP!!

Answer 9

When posting question or answer, I do it to help someone see clearly.

Ridicule is not necessary, but it can be useful. For example, Reductio ad absurdum is useful to point out certain ridiculous arguments.

Hostility, on the other hand, is not very useful at all, and should be avoided.

Answer 10

IN all honesty, I think that it is a cross between both. I alway try to help someone as opposed to chaos. Never have I caued Chaos on here...