I asked something in c/nostupidquestions and got downvoted heavily, was I really out of line? I felt so unwelcomed that I decided to leave Lemmy.
Yes really. But there are stupid people unfortunately that are not interested nor incentivised to change their predicament (privileges are very permissive to this kind). Someone stupid asking honest questions is the first step to healing though.
Well…. bye.
You’ve decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?
FWIW, I didn’t downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?
I’ll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.
“Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link”
“Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link.”
Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they’re exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.
Oh let me do one! I want to make an obviously bad take!
“After reading the Harry Potter books I consider myself to be in the slytherin house”
Oh wow, such amazing content we’re going to list /s
Its supposed to be where you ask questions that you worry might sound stupid to ask, but you are legit trying to gain info / a new perspective, in good faith; Not for promoting weird “Bill Gates Microchip” conspiracy theories by disguising it as “just asking questions”.
Phrasing conspiracy theories as a questions does not make them a questions, stupid or not.
Troll grade: C-.
Obviously from what others say you are a troll.
But can I also point out how “people disagreed with me, so I ran away!” Is such a cowards way of handling things. How can anyone grow if all you do is surround yourself with folks who only agree with you.
Unfortunately there are a lot of stupid questions here that are stupid because they don’t actually fit the theme of “something you’re kind of embarrassed to ask”. A lot of them, like this one, aren’t even actually questions - they’re just thinly veiled rants
There are bad faith questions and sometimes it’s not easy to tell the difference.
Were you sealioning? There’s little tolerance for that kind of move.
Now I’m seriously wondering how people came up with this term.
Use of the term originates from a 19 September 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki titled The Terrible Sea Lion,cwhere a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a sea lion intrudes to repeatedly ask her to explain her statement and attempts (in an exaggeratedly civil manner) to interrogate her views, following the characters into the privacy of their own home. “Sea lion” was quickly verbed, and noting this, Malki posted on his own Wondermark site, “I’m happy that it’s resonated with so many people”.
Of course, you’re just asking questions! /s
Every single one I’ve seen from you is pushing some agenda. I’m honestly surprised it’s taken this long for Lemmy to catch on.
There are gross ones, those get downvoted too.
Questions are just questions. How they’re framed can be inappropriate or unwelcome, but the question itself is just a question.
Asking a question that’s already answered isn’t asking a stupid question, just inappropriate. Same goes for asking a question where the intent appears to be to demean someone else or push an unwelcome viewpoint.
It’s not that the questions are stupid, it’s that most of them are lazy questions that you could have found very easily with a simple google search.
