Do people on this site only answer questions that are simple?

Question

I was wondering, if people only answer all those easy questions that don't take long to answer. I see alot of tricky questions on this site that look like nobody is gonna answer them, and I see all those questions that take 3 minutes to answer and all of them always have answers. Are my predictions true or false? Thanks.

Comments

I can't speak for anyone else, but, for me, no. The currently unanswered questions are either very difficult and/or time consuming to find the information to answer them or require more necessary information that the asker has not provided and probably never will.

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I only answer questions that I know I can provide a reliable answer to. Does that count?

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@FlappersFlappers, I answer questions the same way you do. Your comment does count because you said, "I only answer questions that I know I can provide a reliable answer to", and if there's more people like you that explains why all the difficult to answer questions are unanswered because nobody knows how to "provide a reliable answer".

@Hellfire Taco, I understand what you have said.

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This means people DO only answer simple questions, and medium difficulty questions.

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If I don know something by heart I'll do research into it. The only thing I really avoid is moveset questions because I know they're all asking bout competitive play, and I hate competitive play, so I couldn't even give a good answer if I wanted to. Also, your claim that people in general only answer easy questions is subjective to what each person defines as easy, so I don't think you can even get a solid answer on this.

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First, why would we not answer the easy questions?
As for the difficult ones, I honestly think we do a good job at answering them. Of the thousands of questions ever asked, there must have been at least a few hundred extremely difficult ones. Even then, less than 40 of them remain unanswered. Some users are willing to waste hours of their time and do all sorts of weird things to answer hard questions. KRLW and Taco can fill you in on the details.

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I have answered many time-consuming difficult questions (most of them are sumwun's)

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Aww, I got noticed :)
I just love the probability questions. And the ones that have a very definitive answer, but involve a lot of digging, like “what are all the abilities that changed after being introduced?” or similar to that. Those are fun because they’re generally pretty easy, but involve a big time commitment most users aren’t willing to spend, so I can relax and take my sweet time with it without worrying about it getting sniped.

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No, because 3 people answered this question: https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/302912/what-are-strongest-moves-each-type-including-signature-moves?show=302912#q302912  
:P

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Well, sometimes there are exceptions.

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Woops, forgot to say there are exceptions.
But still, the question like "How many moves can the average Pokémon learn" and those stuff.

Maybe some of these questions are left but not all of them.

Answer 1

Many of the "tricky" questions left are near impossible to answer. Even more of them are just useless, trivial, and nobody cares about them enough to bother putting in the effort to answer.

Comments

I have read your answer. I kind of agree when your talking about useless questions , but I disagree when you're talking about trivial questions. If a question is of little value or importance to you, doesn't mean it's the same for the person who asked the question.

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By that I mean there are many questions that provide no benefit in being answered other than sating a minor curiosity. I'd personally call that trivial even if it were my own, some wouldn't, you get the idea.

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^ This pretty much. No matter how you spin it a question on say "I know this can't happen, but hypothetically what is the max amount of damage x can do under x conditions under something something x" adds little value. It has no use barr sating curiosity.
Other 'difficult' questions boil down to either questioning the brains of the developers, or needing to spend a pointless amount of time/effort to find something. People who answer questions have lives too - and it's important to respect that.

So to answer this;
"Do people on this site only answer questions that are simple?"
Yes. Because the people on this site are real people, with real lives and normal people tendencies. Occasionally people go to the effort of answering difficult, stupid questions; but don't expect them to.

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@Sempi, you have been acknowledged.