Comments on: Where to find good responses to chatty questions?

Question: Where to find good responses to chatty questions?

nímwunnan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:07:09 -0800

Where do I go to ask chatty, open-ended questions to a community as cool as the MeFi community?

Most online forums make me want to throw up in my own mouth, but not this one. The MeFi guidelines are pretty clear about what kind of questions to ask and what kind not to ask, and I think it works well. So where can I go to pose semi-wanky questions to non-wanky people?

By: unSane

unSane — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:12:36 -0800

Pubs are excellent.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:16:52 -0800

SomethingAwful has an Ask/Tell forum.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:26:01 -0800

I'm guessing here that you don't mean "wanky" in its onanistic sense...

By: paulsc

paulsc — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:42:26 -0800

Metachat?

By: tylermoody

tylermoody — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:43:01 -0800

A number of us post on metachat.org as well. It's more open to pointless/silly/chatty threads.

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:46:39 -0800

Metachat, for sure. It's even cooler than Metafilter, but they aren't so interested in responding to questions as having a good chat. Not that that is a bad thing, it's often fun. Also, threads only live for hours, not days, so ask while the volume is high, like after dinner.

By: MadamM

MadamM — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:49:05 -0800

Metachat. That's what it's for- chatty stuff not suitable for regular MeFi.

By: joannemerriam

joannemerriam — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:07:26 -0800

I go to 3waction.com

By: unixrat

unixrat — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:19:35 -0800

Like Jairus, Something Awful's forums.

There. I said it.

By: sid

sid — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:35:49 -0800

SA's signal to noise ratio is slightly different than mefi's

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:54:23 -0800

The folks at the Straight Dope Message Board are pretty smart and pretty hip. The forums you would probably be most interested in for this type of wankery would be "Great Debates", "In My Humble Opinion", and "Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share".

The only downside is that it's a $15/year subscription — but it's very much worth it. I usually hang around "General Questions", which for my money is the equal of Ask MeFi as far as factual answers, without a question/fortnight restriction.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:29:50 -0800

Seconding Straight Dope Message Boards and Three Way Action. Or thirding.

By: drstein

drstein — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:07:06 -0800

Hah. I had almost forgotten about 3wayaction.com...

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:01:13 -0800

Please don't clutter up MetaChat with "semi-wanky questions". It's a community, not the go-to site when you want to know how often people piss in their garden or whatever.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:52:33 -0800

It's more open to pointless/silly/chatty threads.

Absolutely untrue. My attempt to be chatty/silly there got me a permaban with extreme prejudice. The mod there is a cold and humorless person.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:34:41 -0800

I've looked for something as good as Metafilter, but I couldn't find it. It's a unique environment full of mature people. Such a thing is stunningly rare out there on the Internet.

And that's why I stumped-up my $5 to join a few weeks ago.

{grouphug—ahhhh...}

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:58:51 -0800

The mod there is a cold and humorless person.

how untrue, they are one of the friendliest group of mods on the internets, but you still have to respect the community. You must have been pretty naughty to get kicked out of that place.

By: astruc

astruc — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:45:44 -0800

Hah. I had almost forgotten about 3wayaction.com...
posted by drstein

Come visit! It's free again, and I am 99% sure your account is still open.

By: astruc

astruc — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:47:11 -0800

Adding, the correct URL is http://www.3WAction.com.