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I appreciate the troll. It’s always bugged me that this community took the name from reddit without the actual theme. This place should be for “common sense” questions you feel stupid having to ask but instead it’s mostly been ELI5, asklemmy, and a variety of loaded questions.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The sub on Reddit only became more filled with “common sense” questions when it became basically the only sub one could ask a question of any kind without it automatically being removed due to the bigger question asking subs being so strictly controlled to where only 3 or 4 regular users could actually make a fuckin’ post.

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- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I was subscribed to it the first week it existed so I know that your story is completely fabricated. The origin is even in the subreddit wiki…
  
  /r/NoStupidQuestions was founded in February 2013 for people to feel free to ask the questions they might be embarrassed or ashamed to ask elsewhere. Inspired by this thread and specifically this comment
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions
    
    So you agree with me, while saying you don’t? Did you not understand what I said?
    
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    glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Silly little questions as in common sense stuff. “How often do I really need to wash a hoodie?”
    
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Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Right! “No stupid questions” isn’t just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they “should” already know the answer to.

It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.

It’s time for this community to change, I’m not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I’m going to leave if something doesn’t happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.

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