Who are your answers directed at?

Question

How often in the Snooker & Pool category do you find yourself answering questions more for the benefit of the other answerers? I know we all start out answering the question for the asker, but it too often devolves into a pissing contest. I'm as guilty as anyone else for falling into that trap and I try not to do that. I often wonder what the original asker is thinking when they get conflicting answers. Do they take the time to research each point of view or just believe which point of view "sounds" better. Is it more of a question of who's more knowledgeable or who's more convincing? I'm hungry, off to the Chinese buffet. M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

Answer 1

The only time I feel like my answers are directed at other answerers (besides the swimming pool and Yahoo pool questions) is when someone has written something wrong and I respond to it.  Like on that question about the markings on the 7 ft. table, with the cloth/felt thing, I responded to that but not to the actual question, simply because the question had already been answered and anything additional (or rather, repetitive) from me would have been a waste of my time. I might be just drawing a blank, but I can't think right now of examples of conflicting factual answers in this category (totally different story in the Words & Wordplay section-- people ask for their grammar to be corrected and choose an answer that's WRONG as best). But yes, I think the questioner will go with the answer that's most convincing simply because researching it is too much work (after all, if he wanted to take the time to research it, he would've done so in the first place :) )...but I wonder how often in this category the most convincing answer isn't correct? I didn't check Answers yesterday; perhaps there's a resolved question I need to look at?

--Lea

p.s. Hey guys, went to do a little research and look what I found...

Answer 2

IM The Most guilty of all .mine are most times in the form of some kind of BS statement but when i read some answers .Like should that one guy have drilled the S out of his cue to add weight to it

just plain silly

Most of the time im trying to show the asker how something like that would be wrong or not the right way to do something

Equip questions turn into a debate  pretty often esp on which stick to buy and why.or which table all of us have answered those enough we have a standard answer,Your stick ,Lea's 'my fishing pole whatever. Or which cloth,Table Type of mech bridge ect...Not so much an argument or put down as an opinion.on our choice

I Will add a coment on another ans but for the benefit of the asker when he -she may not understand what we are talking about in the first place.On english you say one term i say another but its the same thing.

Like the question above us we will say a diffrent cue sport game how many will call it a diffrent pool game who will be right?

                                  

I hope that is not the reason I get emails with Questions instead of them asking them here maybe they do sometimes just want one answer I hope not my self I would rather have a choice of a few

But anyway hope thats part of an answer anyway

                                     Later Johnny

Answer 3

It doesn't only happen here but also Baseball. A couple weeks ago the question was, "Who holds the record for lifetime grand-slam homeruns?"

You don't even had to go to the record books for this one. I and about six others answered correctly - Lou Gehrig with 23.

The asker gave best answer to the poster that put down - Don Mattingly. Go figure.

Obviously the clue didn't sink in. Seven against one would have sent up a flair that maybe Don Mattingly wasn't the correct answer.

I have passed up many questions because I couldn't provide what I consider a good-enough answer, or just didn't know. If all I was after was two-points I'd sit here and put down something silly like,

"That's a great question but I can't help you."

Or, "Yeah, I think you're right."

I don't need two points that badly.

Was that an "all-you-can-eat" buffet? LOL

Gotta go. "The Shield" is coming on. Later, Jay

Answer 4

Anyone that can learn from them

                                

Thanks Bobby

Answer 5

First and foremost to the the asker. However I can't hold back if someone before answered the question wrong, stating opinions as facts or simply has not clue of what the are talking about. I also get short fused with RTFM kind of questions.