this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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No Stupid Questions

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No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

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Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



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Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

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It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?

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[–] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 165 points 4 months ago (8 children)
[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 80 points 4 months ago (7 children)

There are no stupid questions

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are only stupid questioners 😊

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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 4 months ago

Hey, that's my line!

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[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 133 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly the kind of question this community was created for.

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I feel like this communith is mostly suited for asking questions about things you feel like you ought to know, because everybody seems to know it naturally.

It can range from "How do I properly clean my foreskin?" to "what is ffmpeg and why is everybody using it?", but not "Who's the current president of Turkey?" nor "How do I calculate the circumference of a sphere?"

It's noy questions that can be answered by a "simple google search", but questions that might be answered by a single google search, but only if you know what to search for.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What is foreskin, and why is everybody using it?

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Im just going to sit this gen out and wait for fiveskin.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck it, we're going to six skins.

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago

can range from “How do I properly clean my foreskin?” to “what is ffmpeg and why is everybody using it?”, but not “Who’s the current president of Turkey?” nor “How do I calculate the circumference of a sphere?”

I am impressed that you have four closely related questions right off the top of your head!

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago

You've asked in the right place my friend

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No stupid questions.

No. Stupid questions.

No stupid! Questions!

No, stupid. Questions.

No! Stupid! Questions?

No shoes, no shirt, no stupid questions.

No stupid questions beyond this point.

There are no stupid questions.

We ain't judging no stupid questions.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Works on Contingency. No Money Down!

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 4 months ago

It implies that every question is valid and that there are no stupid questions to be asked.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 28 points 4 months ago
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think you're supposed to ask questions here that people elsewhere might think are stupid questions. The idea is that in this community, there are no stupid questions.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's So Meta Even This Acronym

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[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

You are supposed to ask questions that might be viewed as stupid, and you should receive an answer without judgement.

If you do that though you will get fucked and asked to install Linux.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] puppy@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

It means that no question will be considered stupid and your intelligence/experise will not be judged. So feel free to as any question as long as you're sincere and serious.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's why there is a sidebar.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes but.. the word stupid is not in the sidebar (other than the community name). I did check first! :)

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

How dare you do an appropriate amount of reading of the community rules before posting.

greta.jpg

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's impossible to ask a stupid question here, actually. Try it!

Here, I'll do one:

******** ?

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What did you write? I only see ******

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, what'd I miss? I don't understand the reference.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Wow! Can't believe I've never seen it before, considering I've been in the internet since 1994...

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WHAT
When did it die? That's so sad

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

Fairly recently, I believe. I think it was earlier this year.

There's some mirror/archive sites already set up with all the old content, though.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Well it's a series of tubes - you might have been in a different one to bash.org (rip).

Glad I could bring this one to you :)

Welcome to the Fediverse.

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[–] bork@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'll bite:

Is hunter2 a strong password?

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[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You are supposed to ask stupid questions, but you actually can't, because there are no stupid questions.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Only stupid people

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 months ago

Yes, you should ask both stupid and non-stupid questions here. Only thing, it has to be a honest question and abide by the rules... No trolling, flaming or baiting.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago

No, stupid. This place is just for questions in general. Unqualified. No adjectives. No stupid**,** questions.

[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Just install Linux and see for yourself.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can ask any question here.

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[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

You can try to ask stupid questions, but according to the title of this community you will never succeed

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

The full phrase is "there are no stupid questions."

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

are all questions asked here stupid questions? Or is that all questions asked here are about stupid things? Or is it perhaps that no questions are stupid, and we are just asking questions to gain knowledge?

Questions, questions, questions. Who has the answer?

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