Submitted 10 months ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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-.
Unfortunately there are a lot of stupid questions here because they didn’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
Now I’m seriously wondering how people came up with this term.
Probably not the very first use of the term, but it’s how I came to learn about it
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”.
There are bad faith questions and sometimes it’s not easy to tell the difference.
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.
There are gross ones, those get downvoted too.
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.
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.
Well…. bye.
Yes really. But there are stupid people.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Aeao@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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”
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I will try!
Is halloween good? This video says it is stupid (link)
False@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh wow, such amazing content we’re going to list /s