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[Lufia Erim]

I'm bored. So i was thinking. For people who make threads, does it annoy you when you make a thread with a question, and some people answer it wrong? Has this ever happened to you? What thread was it if you remember?

Sometime it could be the way you worded the question that cause confusion. Sometimes you make a thread with a poll with the opposite question. Sometimes the thread gets derailed. Sometimes people misunderstood the question. I'm just wondering if this annoys people or if most people are comprehensive. Especially since it's against the rule to make the same thread twice , its kind of a waste of a thread.

Has this ever happened to you?

 

[tippy2k2]

Not really. If the thread gets off to a bad start because I asked the question badly/unclearly, I will usually just blow it up and create a new one (EDIT the original with a "Please lock; sorry for the confusion" and recreate the thread with a better setup).

If threads become derailed, I have no problem stepping in myself and asking people to take it outside. Some people seem really worried about doing that for some reason but I will. If they continue to do it anyway (something that has never happened but we'll play the "What if" card), I'll grab a Mod asking to either smack them if needed or to shut down the thread if I think the thread has run its course (I have given Mods permission to just shut down my thread in the past when it starts going off-topic but I think the thread is basically done anyway).

 

[Queen Michael]

The most common way people answer my threads wrong is by quoting the entire OP just to reply. They don't seem to understand that if you don't quote anybody, people'll assume you're talking about the OP. No need for quoting me.

 

[000Ronald]

The most common way people answer my threads wrong is by quoting the entire OP just to reply. They don't seem to understand that if you don't quote anybody, people'll assume you're talking about the OP. No need for quoting me.

Speaking as someone who does that fairly often, I can say that (for me, at least) the reason I do that is to get the attention of the OP. Some threads can have a dozen responses, and each one of them can take awhile to respond to.

It's a matter of engaging someone, is what I'm saying.

 

[Queen Michael]

The most common way people answer my threads wrong is by quoting the entire OP just to reply. They don't seem to understand that if you don't quote anybody, people'll assume you're talking about the OP. No need for quoting me.

Speaking as someone who does that fairly often, I can say that (for me, at least) the reason I do that is to get the attention of the OP. Some threads can have a dozen responses, and each one of them can take awhile to respond to.

It's a matter of engaging someone, is what I'm saying.

That makes a certain amount of sense. But I reserve the right to be annoyed by people who quote a 100+ word OP in its entirety.

 

[000Ronald]

That makes a certain amount of sense. But I reserve the right to be annoyed by people who quote a 100+ word OP in its entirety.

Fair enough. And I suppose that if it was a lengthy OP, I would at least redact content unrelated to the point I was trying to make.

Capatcha: Wake Up Call. Fuck you, Capatcha.

 

[FalloutJack]

I don't get this that often. When people get something wrong, I put in a big bold edit to help them.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Somewhat althought my annoyance is really have to do with this specific user.

This user seen to be the polar oppersite to me when it come to interests and his or her answer to the thread is not wrong per say, just an answer I did not expect to see.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I would have to actually make a thread more than once a year for a situation like that to have a greater chance at potentially happening, so...haven't experienced it, really. It would only slightly annoy me and I'd probably just try to clarify what I meant if I got an inappropriate answer.

Something that annoys me a bit more is when it's exceedingly obvious someone didn't bother even reading the OP. Which typically but not always results in a "wrong" answer.

 

[IceForce]

Especially since it's against the rule to make the same thread twice

Actually, that's not true at all. There's no such rule against that in the COC, and I've never seen anyone moderated for it.

In fact, quite the opposite is true. Often when locking a thread, the mods will actively encourage someone to re-make the same thread again in the hope that the replacement thread will fare better.

An example of this happened only yesterday:
Locked thread:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/663.880503-Why-is-this-still-a-conversation-Gamergate?page=8#22196398
Re-made thread:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/663.881227-Poll-People-opposed-to-Gamergate-Why-is-this-still-a-conversation

 

[Thaluikhain]

Argh, yes. Some years back, I was asking if the forum thought Tasers were tools used to ensure compliance, or weapons used ensure submission. Half the responses were people saying that weapons are tools, which in retrospect allows me to guess at their answer.

OTOH, sometimes this is called for, say if the OP is posing a really contrived moral dilemna to hammer a point at people.

 

[Revolutionary]

To answer your question ; Anchovies.
OT: Waffles.

 

[happyninja42]

I'm bored. So i was thinking. For people who make threads, does it annoy you when you make a thread with a question, and some people answer it wrong? Has this ever happened to you? What thread was it if you remember?

Eh, it depends on the nature of their response. If they are just way off the mark entirely, and their response seems to indicate that they didn't actually read my thread question, then yeah it's fairly annoying. Especially if they then use their response to go off on some ridiculous tangent that actually has nothing to do with my topic. A random generic example would be asking a simple question about oh, say female traits of behavior in pop culture, and someone assumes I'm trying to make some broad reaching comment on the nature of feminism in gaming, and they ramble on and on about gender politics blah blah. And I'm sitting there like "Yo, that's not what I asked at all, not even close. In fact, none of the words you ascribe to my question, were even used in my post."

That type of "wrong answer" can be annoying yes.

 

[Guffe]

I usually am one of those answerers!
I see a thread headline, think of what I want to say, get into the thread, write down my answer. Then I go to the opening post, read it, and give a OnTopic answer
I just think it's funny, as seems to be the case with many other of the Escapist members

 

[Asita]

Oh, it's happened to me. One of the ones that sticks in my memory was when I was trying to make a poll about how people tend to cast their characters in the sex and race department. I meant the latter in the sense of ethnicity rather than playable races, but a great deal of the responses answered something to the extent of "I like playing elves/khajiit/orcs...". In retrospect, I should have actually used the term ethnicity instead of race to avoid that problem entirely, but I didn't, so live and learn.

 

[sageoftruth]

Argh, yes. Some years back, I was asking if the forum thought Tasers were tools used to ensure compliance, or weapons used ensure submission. Half the responses were people saying that weapons are tools, which in retrospect allows me to guess at their answer.

OTOH, sometimes this is called for, say if the OP is posing a really contrived moral dilemna to hammer a point at people.

Ah yes. Those are just rich. The OP asks a question, that is really a very thinly-veiled statement, and the people just won't have it.

 

[lacktheknack]

I recall a thread about "Factually Incorrect Lyrics" and people just kept saying "THIS SEX IS ON FIIIIIIIIIRE", which was a fun thread.

 

[kris40k]

It does not annoy me when someone answers "wrong" as I look at it as a chance to review my own statement for clarity, and sometimes their response may bring up something interesting to discuss. I also am not bothered by OT-yet-related posts, however as a social courtesy I try to not go OT myself in other people's threads. What I like is not what others like, and all that. I guess its because conversations with my circle of friends always ends up being a bit of TV Tropes/ Wikipedia -ish rabbit hole where we start on one topic and and up discussing something completely different, yet 7-degrees related by an hour later.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Oh heck yes! It feels like about half the threads I make have everybody going off in the wrong track from the get go. Sometimes it seems to be that nobody actually has any interest in discussing what I wanted to discuss and others it's that I worded the OP poorly and sent them off in the wrong track.

What really bugs me is when I end my OP in a couple questions in an effort to get the discussion rolling and people just answer them in single sentence bullet point. It's like completely the opposite of what I wanted to achieve with those questions.

Something else annoying there was one thread I made called "Do games need beefier women?" and like 1/3 of the responses were people getting all pedantic about my use of the word 'need.' The thread was supposed to be about whether people wanted more girls with muscles in games but, man, people just got so hung up on that one word. It's like those "Am I the only one" threads where everybody ignores the question to tell the OP that they are, in fact, not the only one.

Edit: Not a thread that I made, but in this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.881256-Are-There-Animated-Series-Aimed-at-Adults-That-Arent-Comedies] thread the OP asked for non-comedic adult animated television shows. The OP specifically stated that films and anime don't count, only for most of the responses to be people listing anime, films, and comedies. -_-

 

[FPLOON]

I wouldn't know... I would have to had made a thread before to see that happen... *Past me whispers something into my ear* Wait? I did? Multiple times? One of those times was about the whole "HDMI thing" with the Xbox One, where certain people were just "linking" me to the Escapist news post discussing about it? Man, 2013 was an in interesting year in wanting to create threads... At least my 2014 thread(s) had some in-dept discussion on them...

Anyway, "annoyance" and it's synonym brothers, sisters, and cousins are not in my vocabulary when it ever came to the threads that I've made so far... Other than that, The only "wrong" answer is an answer with a "warning" attached to it...