Why do people excessively post questions on hub pages when people clearly are not answering?
Some people answer the questions, but a lot of the questions are philosophical, and should be asked on a forum post. If people ask a question that can be answered (like this one) people will answer it.
As for why people post all these unanswerable questions... I think it helps your hubscore to ask a lot of questions.
They start off by asking one question, but once they realize that no one's answering they shoot off another question, and so on.
It's a vicious cycle...
Some people ask questions to get, as well as give, writing ideas for new hubs.
Sometimes questions are answered to help give ideas for great hubs. Maybe we really want to know the answer and are hoping the question will prompt an expert to create a hub to answer it. The questions are great sources for very successful articles.
may be its an old technique for building traffic to their hubs!
or they just unaware of "FORUMS".
I still dont know the difference b/w 'need help...' topic in forums and this 'questions'.
You have answers to your question here, and many others do too. I doubt if anything on HubPages has a plurality of participation. People react to what interests them, and sometimes they react to other things to be courteous. Unanswered questions could give many people writing ideas. They do not always respond even if questions help them. So, an unanswered question is not necessarily futile.
by Keith Schroeder 11 years ago
Why does God do bad things to good people if He really is just?I want honest answers only. No name calling or "my religion is better" stuff.
by Brandon 7 years ago
I thought that the questions would be adding to the hub, thereby making the hub rank better for certain terms. However, that's not the case from what I see. The questions show on the page but not the answers, so the content of the answer is not really on the page, therefore it does not add to the...
by Raymond D Choiniere 14 years ago
Hey Hubbers,Why do people ask questions when they are not up for accepting the answers?Just curious.....Feel free to throw out whatever...
by Jacqui 12 years ago
Why is it that people insist on taking over someone else's question, or hub, for their own soapbox?Lately I've noticed several questions, and even the occasional hub, where several people answer the question, and one person (not the author either) take over and tell people they are wrong and why,...
by Eric Dockett 7 years ago
What the heck is the point of Q&A? I don't mean that sarcastically. I am really trying to figure it out. I can't formulate a strategy for properly using this feature unless I can understand the intent behind it.First the Q&A questions/answers were on their own pages with their own urls. It...
by Akhil S Kumar 11 years ago
Why so many people write non-sense questions in hub pages? Is this some joke to waste the time of hubbers? Or is it just to ask questions for the sake of asking questions?
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