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Are some questions here just to simulate activity? (palaver.p3x.de)

submitted 1 month ago by hendrik@palaver.p3x.de to c/ask@piefed.social

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Sometimes I can't tell whether a question here is genuine and the author is interested in the answers, or whether they just copy-paste something to keep people busy. How am I supposed to approach that?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks, that's thoughtful. I definitely need to factor that in (more) when speculating about other people's motivations on the internet 😅 But yeah, I occasionally do it, too.