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What attracts you - question, category, or user-name?
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Not quite sure where to post this, but here goes.
Since the recent changes to AB, a few people (me included) have said that the orange coloured question titles displayed in the 'latest posts' box on the right are now less easy to spot, and that got me thinking.
What encourages you to read, and possibly answer a question? The question itself, the category, or the last user-name displayed in the grey box?
Since the recent changes to AB, a few people (me included) have said that the orange coloured question titles displayed in the 'latest posts' box on the right are now less easy to spot, and that got me thinking.
What encourages you to read, and possibly answer a question? The question itself, the category, or the last user-name displayed in the grey box?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'll have a quick look down the 'latest posts' list when I first arrive and, if anything looks interesting or is on a thread I'm already following, I look there first. After that, I work my way down the topics list, again just looking at the topics that interest me. I look at the questioner last. If it's someone genuine, then I'm more inclined to have a closer look. If it's a known prat or a'hole, then I may have a quick look to amuse myself or I may not.
The question and the category is what attracts me. I don't care who asks the question; if the question is a thought provoking one and it's about a subject that I'm interested in, then I'll say my piece.
The only criticism I have about AB is that there are so many categories, unless you have several hours to trawl through them all then it's highly likely that a great debate has been and gone before you've had a chance to throw in your two-penneth.
The only criticism I have about AB is that there are so many categories, unless you have several hours to trawl through them all then it's highly likely that a great debate has been and gone before you've had a chance to throw in your two-penneth.
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