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How about some small changes to the limit of questions you can ask?

Asked by poisonedantidote (21675points) October 31st, 2010

As some of you no doubt have noticed, I tend to answer questions far more than I ask them. However today I am in a bit of a questioning mood.

This is my 3rd question today, So that means I Now have to wait until tomorrow to ask more. This is no big deal, Its not like I want to ask “help, how do i stop the bleeding?” or anything like that. So I can wait, and I know limiting it to 3 questions is a great way of keeping trolls at bay as well as making sure that all questions have time to be read and answered fully.

Just, as well as wanting to ask a couple more, I some times think that the rate at which questions come in is some times a little slow. more so at this time of day when most Americans are working or sleeping or whatever it is all you get up to around about this time.

So, i hereby propose the following for consideration.

How about a couple of changes, to how many questions can be asked? perhaps a structure like so:

- On your first visit to the site, you can ask 1 question, if you then get a great answer it unlocks 2 more allowing you a total of 3.

- On your second day, you can ask 3.

- After you have 5k lurve you can ask 3 a day, plus one extra 4th one a week that is not cumulative. in other words, 3 a day, but any one day of the week you can ask 4.

- After you have 10k lurve you can ask 3 a day plus, any one day of the week you can ask 4, and you can also any one day of the week trade in 500 lurve for a 5th.

- After you have 20k you can ask 4 a day, plus any one day of the week you can ask 5.

- After you have 30k you can ask 4 a day, plus any one day of the week you can ask 5, and also trade in 1k lurve to for an extra question.

- After you have 50k you can ask 5 a day.

Or perhaps some variation of the aforementioned, maybe including a system where you can trade in lurve at any level on the lurve ladder.

The reason i mention trading in lurve or using lurve to buy a question, is to stop a lurve chain reaction. if you are allowed to ask more questions, and are well known on the site, then you will gain lurve even faster, and therefore would maybe be wise to trade some in or lose some from extra questions, and to prevent gaining from 0 lurve to 50k lurve too fast.

Why not just raise it to 5 questions a day for all? well, personally, i think that would hurt the site a little bit, but its not like i have crunched any numbers or anything, it may be a viable option.

Any thoughts?

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