When you ask a question, do people usually understand what you are asking?

Question

It's a common thing for me to receive answers that have nothing to do with what I asked, even when I formulate the question in the best way possible. Does that happen to you as well?

Do you have an example of question you've asked, and answer received that didn't fit the question?

Answer 1

Oh yes, but in my case they do not want to answer the question, they want to preach to me and tell me I need God. Example? When I as question for pagans about paganism and specifically say I do not want any Christians telling me I am evil and going to hell and usually that is the first answer I get.
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Answer 2

I don't ask many questions, but I have noticed some very strange answers, where some obsessed person will paste the same long sermon or philosophy no matter the question.

And then there was the guy who mistook a question about Charles Darwin as being about Richard Dawkins and went into a long speech about what a hero Dawkins and Ayn Rand are to all but we're just not smart enough to grasp it.

I wonder if he read his own reply later.

Answer 3

I find sometimes people aren't reading the details of my question or the other issue is people are just rude. Some people come on here to just get points, I asked a question about something health related and some girl answered with "hi", some people are just idiots, but perhaps the other problem is maybe some ppl's english isnt' that good. I don't know but I can get some pretty strange answeres sometimes. Your not alone.

Answer 4

I tried to take a look at some of your previous questions but they are private. However, this question seems clear without any of the weird spellings or grammar that is sometimes prevalent here so I am assuming your other questions are. All of my questions receive at least a few viable answers so I'm not certain why you are having this problem. Perhaps at the time of day that you post there are only half-wits online.

Answer 5

in basic terms ingredient on question i will address is that there's no financial ruin 20 in Mark And Charles T Russel had no longer something to do with 'the hot international Translation of the Holy Scriptures' for he grew to become into only founding father of JW and Watch Tower the hot translation the Watch Tower Society did grew to become into supposedly performed by making use of communities of peoples yet seems none of then had stages in Hebrew nor Greek and not one of the different 23 Bibles I definitely have believe the JWs translation in this verse or John a million:a million

Answer 6

I have mostly put in questions that really have no right answer but are more philosophical. But I can understand why you have asked this question after reading other peoples questions. You can tell by the answers of some that they have not read the whole question properly and just skipped through it before answering.
The only answers I have problems with in my questions are the fanatical Christians that tell me that I am going to burn in hell...lol

Answer 7

Yes. I think I will ask questions less broad and easy to answer in the future. I think people don't have enough time sometimes, and those who have enough time and know the answer don't always find the question. I'm thinking that the contact list may help so those who I think can answer my more frequent question category can be within my network. But that helps mostly when they also add you.

Answer 8

Yea it happens all the time. The last time I was asking if anyone knew where I could get piston rings for a really old outboard motor I was trying to rebuild.The manufacturer no longer makes the part so I needed to find someone that would have them.Instead of getting what I asked for, everybody started trying to tell how to fix the motor.That's just one example.There's many.

Answer 9

Sometimes it's just a matter of misreading the question (and then you just have the jokesters) rather than the questions being written badly.

I've answered a question and when I went back to it later to see what new answers had popped up I saw that I had missed one sentence which made my answer pretty invalid.

I was a wee bit embarrassed!

Answer 10

I don't always like the answers but the people on here usually answer the question ask: there are alot of different opinions though, but is not why we are on here, so we can hear what different people have to say?