• hemmes@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Many microblogging and aggregation platform users prefer to ask questions within a thread to keep the conversation active. You can continue scrolling through other posts while waiting for an organic reply from another user.

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      2 days ago

      You can also keep a conversation going by being an insufferable cunt, Lets all thank Summzashi for providing an excellent example of this.

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      I’m really glad this appears to be a popular way of thinking. Back in my day people would respond to questions like this with rude “let me Google that for you” links. I always preferred asking humans things rather than looking them up, and I think that’s become really important given the AI hellscape we’re experiencing.

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      Nah, a proper question and contribution would be to ask what the lawsuit is about. It’s ridiculous to expect others to explain what a high profile game is, that’s what a search engine is for. It takes literally 5 second or less to Google it and look at screenshots to understand what’s the point here.

      This isn’t contributing anything. If your “active” conversation is nothing more than asking about widely available facts, it’s nothing but noise and might as well not be there.