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¿Question #464?
CDRodeffer: To avoid a glut of frivolous questions, should asking cost Geek Gold? If so, how many?

oldhoss: I like the cost of 1 GG for each question asked and earning of 1GG for every question answered.
Woelf: Hi Clark! To answer your question, no, that would be bad.
pricero1: You can charge me GG for my questions if I can charge you GG for your answers. That's sounds fair.
Svengaard: 2GG per question.
FuManchu: Over 9000.
Auramine O: 1gg per question asked about about asking questions
Caerid: Yes, it should, but then I would have no questions to answer.
bcooperok: No way. All of my questions are frivolous. This would unnecessarily devalue the frivolity market.
IanthePez: 5, please pay me for this question.
gmonk: 500 GG per question
djcack: no
gordon1018: No
capt yid: YES..at least 2 gg.
penda: But I love the frivolity! It's my new guilty pleasure!
itjoe: Asking should cost Geek Silver. I'd say asking a question is probably worth 0.1 Geek Gold. Not a huge limit, but enough so that people think before asking.
Dale-not-Chip: no
FNH1: 0.1
2amp: yes, 1 gg each?
Harkonnen13: Yes and the geek gold should all go to me.
Geosmores: yes yes yes, 5 cents
mattyt91: Great idea. Or limit the # of questions asked per user per period of time.
vertigo2192: No
SurprisedPoultry: Yes, some nominal amount, but it would be reimbursed if a good number of people answer the question
Brad Oliver: Yes - 2GG, and it should be retroactive.
DHEK: No, asking shouldn't cost GeekGold. However, askers should realize that they should conduct themselves properly and not ask questions without caring about quality.
aleo09: no.
Elf__Man: 0.05 to avoid the horrible questions
MenuGarit: Yes. It should cost .25
boylermaker: Everything you have
Ivan: No, it's the frivolous questions that make this interesting.
GrimJester: No. I and others like some of them. Tag or mark them. Perhaps: sincere, flippant, nonsense. Good question, though. [meta]
Sardukar: Yes. 1GG per 5 questions
vampywife: no, it's just for fun, so why make it so formal?
Cromaa: No
Nekura: Isn't this whole exercise frivolous?
WatchmanX2000: All
7ofAnn: Go ahead and ask what you want
bigbadsteve: that would get rid of a bunch of us...would answering have to cost something to?
jasta6: no
brainrob: Yes - 5 per question; you get 1 back for each 5 responses
Kazin: Yes. but not 1GG for one question. More like something in relation to the answers.
Favre4MVP: no.
Quest22: 1
kuhrusty: I would have an easier time avoiding frivolous questions if it cost me GG to *answer* them.
Killermyth: 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999, Now lets watch Bill Gates take out his loose change.
jellospike: bah
BaSL: no.
POvidiusNaso: .0000000000000001
CharlieWonka: Yes and 1 is enough for 5 questions
Great Dane: 1
tipigi: No.
edosan: Yes. Somewhere around 150 or so.
Gecko23: Sure, if you just want to kill them off.
Igmatto: 5
ThatFalafelGirl: no!
The Unbeliever: 42
Randy Cox: If we had to do this, charge 1 gg per question that is returned if you get 10 responses within the first 48 hours. Or make it an even more complicated formula so that no one knows whether clicking "Never Answer" will cost questioners more money or not.
meshuggener: No.
Lord_Prussian: 1 per question
skrutsch: Probably, but it should be cheap and you should get GG for answering a bunch.
MisterCranky: The whole point of an endeavor such as GeekQuestions is that frivolity is in the eye of the beholder. You were given a Never Answer button--feel free to use it.
Karlsen: You can pay me as many as you think your question is worth
snoozefest: yes! 1-5 each
scriptorum: 1GG for 3 questions
heli: nah
toulouse: Oooh, I like that. It should cost everything, and your avatar and badge should be stripped.
Toxidyne: Perhaps the questions should have tip jars, then the tips in the questions would allow for rating questions.
erli: Well, if asking costs 1 GeekGold then answering should earn 2
xlorp: First one's free kid. Then it'll cost you.
midgetsrawk: No
Wintergoblin: 1
puffinge: I think that's the wrong solution, unless you want to reduce the amount of questions to near zero.
stephensj23: Yes. One gold per question would be appropriate.
AlorielLelyn: I think questions costing Geek Gold would cut down on the number of questions by quite a bit more than you might expect. Gold isn't that easy to comeby, and at some point may be quite rare. There are a finite number of games...
Oborro: no, none
Dave: No. I don't think anything should cost Geek Gold.
Salt-Man Z: No. Actual interaction on the board (as opposed to pretty avatars, etc.) should be totally free.
GuyHill: no
gnomehome: I have no objections, but I see no need.
Ebonwoulfe: To avoid a glut of frivolous questions, don't click "GeekQuestions", that's my solution
steef: depends on how much I get for answering
solove: I think we should receive geekgold for answering dumb questions ;-)
Blackwind: sure...just 1
RichardT: Yes, 10
Nightmare: Too late.
m_r_tyler: Maybe just you should pay GG for asking this frivolous question.
redhuntingcap: who cares. it's the internet-it's all frivolous.
Mike A: Maybe it should be proportional to the number of questions one has already asked and the amount of time since the last one was asked.
chaddyboy_2000: Yup, 1 a piece.
BobDodgerBlue: Yes, between 1 and 3
Vince Londini: Yes, 1GG/question
nerman8r: no
CheetohFingers: Interesting Idea 1 or have an ignore feature
louiseh: What's wrong with a glut of frivolous questions?
shumyum: I like gluts
geberus: nope
dakarp: Nope. Frivolity is part of the fun.
djflippy: The glut of frivolous questions is part of what makes this fun.
djlg: YES! Not much. 1GG or even 1GG for 5 questions.
Torbin_Bequette: no
Shakar: 10 questions per gg.
netfilterz: Nope... it's too much fun to answer some (silly) questions once in a while...
jttm: Yes 20.
queequeg: yup, 2
kimbo: I'd prefer to see a method of blocking questions from specific users. The user should be notified each time his questions are blocked.
WasQ: no, it's fun
Critical Mass: stop asking such frivolous questions
yossarians: I find this question frivolous
berserkley: no, because we would get frivolous questions from geeks with lots of gold
scribidinus: I think it's too late.
HBGlover: No, frivolous questions are often the most amusing.
CortexBomb: I really don't think so, the boring questions are easy enough to skip
melissa: If asking costs, then answering should earn - in a ratio of about 1:10 (ie if it costs 1 GG to ask, you should get 1 GG for every 10 answers).
Flyspeck23: No, of course not.
The Maverick: Why not - and Geeklists too!
Gelatinous Goo: no
tragicpoet: No, the first thing people ask is how to get geekgold (i still don't know) so they would be pretty screwed.
Donkey Thong: Nah, it's too much fun to just kill time on these
sumo: Son, there's no charge.
Debate: No. Just limit the number of questions per day and have some way of culling the old or uninteresting ones.
hibikir: 20!!! please make it stop!!!
Der Das: 1GG/5Q w. 1st 10Q free
seppo21: It's a little late to avoid the glut of frivolous questions. A GeekGold charge wouldn't bother me.
Friendless: Good idea. 1.
janiera: No
CDRodeffer: I think it should, and if asking this question costs, then it can be deducted from my total. But I also think people should get credit for thoughtful answers to questions that others have asked, perhaps by rating both the questions and the answers.
ValJor: Yes. One gg per question
Jim_P: 5
ynnen: I'd say you can "buy" questions for 1 GG each, or 6 for 5 GG
skelebone: This question should have cost you 10 GG