Question websites
October 1, 2006 8:45 PM Subscribe
I am looking for sites similar to AskMeFi as I often have many questions, and cannot survive on only one per week. Can anyone help?
http://answers.yahoo.com/ rather than ask yahoo is formated more like askmetafilter in which is a community answering rather than one person. there is also answerbag.com and yedda.com. hope that helps.
posted by nyu2 at 9:07 PM on October 1, 2006
posted by nyu2 at 9:07 PM on October 1, 2006
Learn to use a search engine and existing reference sites. If there's a usenet newsgroup about your topic, Google Groups will generally find something helpful. If it's something relating to general knowledge, pop culture, science fiction, or technology, try Wikipedia. If it's an etiquette issue, try reading an advice column. Ask MetaFilter is cool but it's not the only place to get questions answered.
Oh, and if you're bad at searching and willing to pay, there's also Google Answers, but this generally won't get you anything you can't find reading the sites above and searching the web in general.
posted by inkyz at 9:07 PM on October 1, 2006 [1 favorite]
Oh, and if you're bad at searching and willing to pay, there's also Google Answers, but this generally won't get you anything you can't find reading the sites above and searching the web in general.
posted by inkyz at 9:07 PM on October 1, 2006 [1 favorite]
Straight Dope Message Board. It's pay but you can try it out for free for 30 days.
(Also the Straight Dope archives, for hundreds of questions you haven't even thought of yet.)
posted by smackfu at 9:21 PM on October 1, 2006
(Also the Straight Dope archives, for hundreds of questions you haven't even thought of yet.)
posted by smackfu at 9:21 PM on October 1, 2006
Really, learn to use good search techniques. Because people this lazy shouldn't oughtta be.
posted by FlamingBore at 9:26 PM on October 1, 2006
posted by FlamingBore at 9:26 PM on October 1, 2006
The thing is, about 50% of questions on metafilter would be better asked at a forum dedicated to such matters. Utilizing google skills is great and all but that doesnt always work. Usenet (groups.google.com), Yahoo Groups and various internet forums are probably the place to go. I belong to dozens of such things which I browse periodically and post regularly on (as if you care, groups for poker, wood working, restoring old machinery, various software development forums, kayaking, photography, etc, etc). I do sometimes query this site about those subjects but thats because this site has a lot of breadth and sometimes you need the thoughts of someone who is NOT an expert in the field of the question.
I apologize for the missing apostrophes in this message. For some reason, the apostophre key on my keyboard is starting a search in firefox instead of being an apostrophe. Maybe I should write a question about that?
posted by RustyBrooks at 9:56 PM on October 1, 2006 [1 favorite]
I apologize for the missing apostrophes in this message. For some reason, the apostophre key on my keyboard is starting a search in firefox instead of being an apostrophe. Maybe I should write a question about that?
posted by RustyBrooks at 9:56 PM on October 1, 2006 [1 favorite]
Wikipedia has a set of reference desks where you can ask about pretty much anything. Alternatively, ask a librarian - they live for hard questions!
posted by Paragon at 11:09 PM on October 1, 2006
posted by Paragon at 11:09 PM on October 1, 2006
I apologize for the missing apostrophes in this message. For some reason, the apostophre key on my keyboard is starting a search in firefox instead of being an apostrophe. Maybe I should write a question about that?
Whenever that happens to me, I usually kill the firefox.exe process and restart it, it seems to be a bug in Firefox. It seems to happen to me after I've used it for several days without restarting.
posted by gregschoen at 11:24 PM on October 1, 2006
Whenever that happens to me, I usually kill the firefox.exe process and restart it, it seems to be a bug in Firefox. It seems to happen to me after I've used it for several days without restarting.
posted by gregschoen at 11:24 PM on October 1, 2006
Really, learn to use good search techniques. Because people this lazy shouldn't oughtta be.
I'd just like to defend myself, being from Green Bay myself, not all of us are this dumb. I swear.
posted by gregschoen at 11:26 PM on October 1, 2006
I'd just like to defend myself, being from Green Bay myself, not all of us are this dumb. I swear.
posted by gregschoen at 11:26 PM on October 1, 2006
There is a focus bug in Firefox that causes this to happen sometimes. It is apparently a really hard bug to track down.
posted by grouse at 12:36 AM on October 2, 2006
posted by grouse at 12:36 AM on October 2, 2006
This has been my number 2 most important question to ask ask.me for weeks. Somehow every week something more important, and les meta comes up though. Thanks for asking!
posted by roofus at 6:21 AM on October 2, 2006
posted by roofus at 6:21 AM on October 2, 2006
Seconding Paragon's recommendation for the Wikipedia reference desks, and many people's recommendations to seek out subject-specific discussion boards related to the topic of your question. For example, the Road Trip America forum is great for questions along the line of "What's the best route from A to B, and what can I see along the way?" (if A and B are both in the US).
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:24 AM on October 2, 2006
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:24 AM on October 2, 2006
Whenever that happens to me, I usually kill the firefox.exe process and restart it, it seems to be a bug in Firefox. It seems to happen to me after I've used it for several days without restarting.
massive derail, but I have this problem all the time as well and it drives me NUTS. It seems to also prevent FF from properly copy/pasting as well. It's weird, because it seems like it doesn't happen to anyone else I know .. the only behavior I have that's somewhat different than my co-workers/friends is opening up massive amounts of windows (mostly tabbed, but like, 30 on average).
Often seems related to javascripty/focus things (like grouse mentioned). Happens a lot with both Google and Mefi for me.
I've spent a few hours before looking for fixes with no luck. this has really been the only problem I haven't been able to google down in nearly a year.
posted by fishfucker at 11:01 AM on October 2, 2006
massive derail, but I have this problem all the time as well and it drives me NUTS. It seems to also prevent FF from properly copy/pasting as well. It's weird, because it seems like it doesn't happen to anyone else I know .. the only behavior I have that's somewhat different than my co-workers/friends is opening up massive amounts of windows (mostly tabbed, but like, 30 on average).
Often seems related to javascripty/focus things (like grouse mentioned). Happens a lot with both Google and Mefi for me.
I've spent a few hours before looking for fixes with no luck. this has really been the only problem I haven't been able to google down in nearly a year.
posted by fishfucker at 11:01 AM on October 2, 2006
It's a known bug, I was watching it in Bugzilla for a while. Then it got subsumed into another bug.
posted by grouse at 11:34 AM on October 2, 2006
posted by grouse at 11:34 AM on October 2, 2006
You don't have to have a specific question website to ask a question. Find the forum dedicated to your subject and, after searching to see if it's already been answered there, start a thread in that forum.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 12:07 PM on October 2, 2006
posted by Mr. Gunn at 12:07 PM on October 2, 2006
I recommend Craigslist boards. I've been a regular on the Women's Issues Forum for years and while a lot of it is schlock, I've also encountered some really wise, compassionate women there....Helped me during a particularly difficult breakup. They have a forum for almost every interest and it's a bit more interactive the AskMeFi.
posted by notjustfoxybrown at 3:51 PM on October 2, 2006
posted by notjustfoxybrown at 3:51 PM on October 2, 2006
You could just open up a second MeFi account, right?
posted by lunchbox at 4:31 PM on October 2, 2006
posted by lunchbox at 4:31 PM on October 2, 2006
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posted by pompomtom at 8:57 PM on October 1, 2006