Does It confuse you when someone star's a question, but does not answer it?

Question

If you find it interesting, why wouldent you answer?

Answer 1

Yes, it does surprise me that someone found the question interesting but did not bother to answer it........ however, sometimes the person may find a question to be interesting, but find that it has already been answered such that there seems to be nothing to say more...... it is also possible that one finds a question interesting because one is rather foxed by it and is unable to formulate any credible answer..... well I am merely guessing, because so far as I am concerned, I have always answered a question that I felt like star-ring.

Answer 2

I star many questions that I'm not qualified to answer. Also if someone more qualified doesn't answer, I can provide the member with some insight or a place to look for the answer, if necessary. Sometimes I think that someone in my contacts list will have a good answer. If I dont know the answer, I don't respond. I also check back in to find out the answer for my own knowledge, if Im interested. Sometimes it's just a good question that I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said. In that case, I'll give a star, thumbs up and move on.

Take care.

Answer 3

Question: Does It confuse you when someone star's a question, but does not answer it?
Answer: Not as much as it used to.

Many people read the answers already given, and determine if others have said what they would have, there's no point in repeating the answers already given.

However: I DO FIND IT REALLY ANNOYING TO HAVE SO MANY ANSWERS, AND VERY FEW STARS.
It almost seems selfish. So I rarely give Best Answer to anyone who doesn't STAR my questions.

But I also realize for some, they aren't completely savvy of the features available to them. That doesn't apply however to those who systematically star other user's questions, but rarely star my own. It's almost like a confirmation of how little feminists respect the participation of some men in the thought process of feminism. But, it is also favoritism!

Shingoshi Dao
2007.Nov.27 Tue, 08:59 --800 (PST)

Answer 4

Like in this case, sometimes one finds the question interesting but finds others have done a good job of answering and nothing else need be added. Actually, here i learned interesting things from the answers that i didn't know and i really have nothing to add. Nearly.

Just a sort of compliment and thank you for the asker and maybe the answerers, too.

Answer 5

The question might be wholly new to me. I'd be interested to follow the answers, too, for their novelty. E.g., Questions about snooker strategy--I've never heard one of those, so if I ran across one here, I'd star it, and I'd read the answers. I'd be only a fly on the wall during the career of the question, but I'd be a happy fly.

Similarly, but without the novelty factor: I'm incompetent to answer questions about girl-girl seduction methods. I'd star the question anyway. Ya never know what information there might come in handy.

I will star competent questions of Christian apologetics. I'm not a Christian, and I find the apologist's product ultimately useless to me, but I know good work in that area when I see it. Often a source of intellectual fireworks; deadly serious stuff to them, "pass the popcorn" entertainment for me. It would be RUDE of me to intrude there with my ignorant answers, or irrelevant comments.

Answer 6

I star a number of questions I do not answer. There are questions that I find interesting that I do not have answers for. If I give it a star it goes into my "Starred" list. I can then easily refer back to it so I can see the answers that people are giving. Just because I don't have an opinion on something that doesn't mean it doesn't interest me. And it's my way of saying "thanks" to the person who asked it.

Exploring new ideas and new ways of looking at old ideas is how we grow.

Sometimes, I "star" the questions to bring them to my "Contacts'" attention. :)

Answer 7

I try this lots, often with the aid of fact if the question is memorable i will circulate lower back to it via looking up my starred questions lower back. And if this is a few thing i'm rather fascinated by i megastar it and look on the solutions later. often times i come across a very humorous answer and megastar that qu. too 'reason i do no longer desire to forget it.

Answer 8

No. I do it sometimes, especially if I don't know the answer or if I would like to hear other opinions. It just means I find the question interesting, which the asker should take as a compliment.

Answer 9

They might find it intersesting but they might not know the answer, so why would they give you spam as an answer? I think that when we star a question but not answer it, since the question appears on the starred questions part on our profile, we have some kind of shortcut to see what the other users answered.

Answer 10

Sometimes I will star a question simply to put it on my starred list so that it gets brought to the attention of my contacts, they have different experiences than me and may be able to answer it better than I could.