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Udo
Seriously? "How tall are you" and other extremely softball questions? I think the average question quality on Askolo would increase if they would display the asker's name next to the Q.
jasonshen
Feel free to ask better questions... =)
rollypolly
Here's another one that had me frowning:

  Q: How did you end up in Silicon Valley at
  such a young age?
  
  A: I flew on a plane from LA. Southwest,
  I think.
It's like a middle-schooler wrote these.
yinyinwu
Sahil wrote a blog post about the length of emails: http://sahillavingia.com/blog/dont-judge-an-email-by-its-len...

There are other questions and answers that you should check out. My favorite:

Q: Rails or Django? A: Users don't care so I don't care.

ZanderEarth32
To Sahil's point on emails, short emails were something that were shocking to me as well when I first started interacting with busy people. I took it for rudeness, or dismissive. I know better now and am glad to even receive a reply in the first place, regardless of length.
Zev
Being busy isn't ever an excuse to be rude.
cemregr
(sees default twitter bootstrap button, closes tab)
pbreit
Why? Good or lame reason?
Alex3917
Wow I didn't realize that Sahil was the one behind Dayta, I think I still have that on my phone from when he asked people to test it.
rokhayakebe
Q: Rails or Django?

A:Users don't care so I don't care.

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