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On average, how many questions do you "follow"?

Asked by mcbealer (9779 points ) March 26th, 2008

Do you keep all of the questions you’ve responded to active?
Right now I’m following around 54 questions and I’ve only been a flutherite since March 7. I’m worried that after a while I’ll just be looking at new responses to old threads… I guess I’ll have to eventually be more aggressive about removing questions I’m only mildly interested in.

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cwilbur's avatar

I don’t usually see a reason to drop them, so I keep them all active.

kevbo's avatar

I keep most active if I think they’ll be useful down the line. If I’m not interested in other answers I’ll drop them as soon as I get annoyed by updates to the question. No offense by any means, but I’m sure I’ll stop following this one.

paulc's avatar

I generally keep following questions until the answers degenerate. Its happened on a few questions but actually not too many.

mcbealer's avatar

yeah, Kevbo, I know whachamean.

scamp's avatar

If a question becomes inactive, or has gone off topic and ended up either too silly or argumentative for me, I usually weed them out after a few days.

sferik's avatar

I’m currently following 434 questions. We should probably paginate the “Questions You’re Following” page.

uberbatman's avatar

I keep all of my questions active. Even if no one has responding in a long time, because sometimes 3–4 months down the road new people join fluther and go back and answer old questions so its nice to see their input too.

mcbealer's avatar

@sferik ~ yes, that would be a great tool !

axlefoley's avatar

I have only been on this site for a week if that. I am following about 20 or so. Not had the need to end any discussions as yet. I will make the most of it before I get kicked off!

syz's avatar

Good grief. Now I feel like an indiscriminate purger – I rarely have more than 4 or 5 going.

boffin's avatar

I follow ‘em for three or four days…
And that’s only for maybe 4 or 5, eight or ten questions tops….
Or till the question dosen’t get any more hits, then I see no reason to follow…

bluemukaki's avatar

I have all of them, Some which get annoying, like that “What is Life?” question which has been active daily for about 3 months, get purged after a while. I like to follow the questions for a long time because it’s interesting how the debate changes over a long period of time…

gooch's avatar

I follow all of them I have answered.

ironhiway's avatar

All those that I’ve answered, except those that are way off topic or outdated. Those that I will not answer, that I’m interested in knowing more about. And several which I may answer later when I have time..

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