Where can I find more sites like AskMe?

July 16, 2004 5:32 PM

Where can I find more sites like AskMe? I've quickly grown addicted to the questions and answers found on "the green", but the current level of traffic will not sate me.

Monkeyfilter's "Curious George" posts are good, but they don't seem to have their own section, and there aren't too many of them. Ask Slashdot is too slashdot. I've been hitting Wikipedia and Everything2 for my "random information" fix, but I'm looking for questions and answers.

Before anyone flames me for creating a "DiscussMe" post, I assure you that this is a very real question.

posted by Eamon to computers & internet (13 comments total)

Well, if you're only after random information and other such trivia, there's the Straight Dope archives and Ask Yahoo.
posted by Danelope at 5:41 PM on July 16, 2004

answers.google.com
posted by sfenders at 5:45 PM on July 16, 2004

The Stumpers list, which offers questions and answers from reference librarians and others, sends so many notes per day that I could not keep up even in digest form. Have at 'er.
posted by GaelFC at 6:01 PM on July 16, 2004

Experts Exchange had a good idea (and I even got a couple of t-shirts for answering a lot of computer-geek questions) but I haven't used the site for years. Dunno how it is these days.
posted by spacewrench at 6:09 PM on July 16, 2004

Someone has to say it: nowhere.
posted by scarabic at 6:31 PM on July 16, 2004

The General Questions forum at the Straight Dope Message Boards is surprisingly civil, informative, and witty. I started reading it before Ask MeFi started up, and althought I love Ask MeFi dearly, I still prefer the SDMB for informing me about neat-o trivia stuff.
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:59 PM on July 16, 2004

Ask SlashDot

I hope the link works, I am getting a 503 Service Unavailable error right now.
posted by caddis at 7:05 PM on July 16, 2004

Say... you aren't that Jeopardy guy are you?
posted by SPrintF at 7:13 PM on July 16, 2004

No, if he was, the post would have been: "These other sites are like AskMeFi." And we'd all be answering like, "What is Ask Slashdot?"
posted by kindall at 7:58 PM on July 16, 2004

I HATE that guy! I WISH HE'D LOSE ALREADY HE'S A ROBOT ALEX JUST NEEDS TO PRY OPEN THE FACEPLATE AND SEE EYAAAAAaa
posted by ac at 8:00 PM on July 16, 2004

I Love Books
I Love Music
I Love Everything (Else)
posted by Jaybo at 11:14 PM on July 16, 2004

Usenet. Just find the proper newsgroups. Start with groups.google.com or set your newsreader (outlook express, thunderbird) to your ISPs news server.
posted by skallas at 1:08 AM on July 17, 2004

The Guardian's Notes & Queries.
posted by normy at 7:27 AM on July 17, 2004