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Have people here stopped reading the text of questions before answering them?

Asked by SmashTheState (14245points) September 10th, 2015

I’ve been reading the answers to this question and becoming increasingly baffled and irked. Only LuckyGuy and Coloma (and possibly Zaku) actually answered the question I was asking in the text of my question. Everyone else appears to be answering just the title of the question. I am left to assume that these people couldn’t be arsed to read three paragraphs (“TL;DR”) and just zipped off whatever popped into their head while perusing titles from the daily question list, regardless of the fact that this is in General and not Social.

This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed this recently, and it’s pretty odd. Every time Fluther’s priggish and authoritarian censorship practices annoy me, I leave the site for a year or two and then return when I’ve forgotten my irritation. This is the first time I’ve returned and discovered that Fluther feels more like AnswerBag or Yahoo!Answers than the thoughtful, literate, intelligent, educated user base I remember.

Am I imagining this? Or has it become the new normal for the Dunning-Kruger Brigade to dip their spoons in the soup around these parts?

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