What is the question/answer etiquette?

I definitely think an official ettiquette should be established. Building on Germs and oblix's responses (and collecting them into a list), my suggested rules are as follows:

1) If anda know the answer to the question, don't ask. This should be fairly clear already, but jawaban are for pertanyaan anda NEED ANSWERING, not ones that anda already know and want to kuis others. In fact, believe it atau not, we already have a place where anda can do that! It's called the "quiz" section.

2) If you're asking an opinion, make a pick instead. I've already seen some opinion related "Answers" questions. I'm not talking about, "What's the best way to make mac and cheese" kind of opinions (those can be "Answers" questions), I'm talking, "Did anda know that the actress who plays Sharon appears in two episodes after her character's death?" These are not "Answers" pertanyaan because there is no pertanyaan being asked. All a fan can do is say, "Yeah, I noticed," atau "No, I didn't." This is probably better served as a pick question, when there aren't multiple jawaban atau explanations that can be employed.

3) If anda don't know the answer, don't answer the question. Responding just to say, "Oooh, I was wondering that, too!" atau "Oh, I don't know, but I hope anda figure it out" are not helpful to the asker, atau anyone else for that matter. Either add your own answer to the question, atau add on to what someone has previously said.

4) If it's been said, don't be a broken record. If a pertanyaan has been sufficiently answered, and anda agree with that answer, instead of answering again, VOTE FOR THAT AS THE BEST ANSWER. Makes sense, doesn't it? anda agree, and it probably is the best answer. Don't be a glory whore and repeat what someone's already said.

5) If anda think someone has it wrong, correct them. Just because a pertanyaan has been answered several times doesn't mean it's necessarily been CORRECTLY answered. Feel free to add on to other people's jawaban (like I'm adding on to germs and oblix's right now) atau to correct someone whose answered incorrectly. It's OK to politely say, "Actually, the film was released in June, not October." People won't beat anda with a stick.

And if anyone wants to add to these rules, oleh all means do so.

EDIT: At germs' urging, I link.

First of all, there needs to be a term to distinguish the pertanyaan anda ask as part of the jawaban feature from all the other pertanyaan we can ask on the site. Talking it over with others, the best I've seen so far is Answer Requests (AR).

As for using the feature, there are a few ground rules, in two parts.

Asking a question:

* Ask pertanyaan that have multiple correct answers.
* Ask pertanyaan which will have jawaban that are at least partially based on fact atau process, rather than opinion.
* Ask pertanyaan for which anda don't already know the answer.
* Ask pertanyaan that require jawaban of at least a couple of sentences. Simple pertanyaan with "yes/no" answers, atau jawaban of a person's name, are a waste of the feature.
* Ask pertanyaan that haven't been asked already.
* The pertanyaan should be general. Keep the specifics in the "additional info" field. Other people who have similar pertanyaan will be looking to read the jawaban to your requests, and that will be a lot lebih useful with a pertanyaan like "Which dentists are good in Birmingham?" rather than "I have a lot of cavities and I'm in a lot of pain. My last dentist was terrible with root canals, and I may have got a crown I didn't actually need. I live in Birmingham. Can anda suggest a good dentist?"

Providing an answer:
* Answer the question.
* Do not respond to other answers. If anda want to respond to other answers, use the komentar feature. oleh now users should have noticed that jawaban get shuffled around nearly each time the page is loaded, so there is no "thread" of conversation to follow. If anda respond to another's answer in your answer, anda will look like an idiot.
* Do not answer a pertanyaan if anda do not have an answer.
* Do not answer a pertanyaan if your answer is not substantially different from an already-posted answer.
* Try to answer completely and thoroughly.
* Provide an answer in that location; do not only post a link to something anda wrote elsewhere (or, worse, something someone else wrote). People looking for jawaban don't want to and shouldn't have to look in still other places for their information.
* If anda don't answer, vote for the "best answer".
* Answer in complete sentences and proper spelling/grammar. Nothing diminishes the perceived quality of an answer like using sentence fragments filled with chat speak.
* Answer in the same language used in the Answer Request.

Edited to accommodate the fact that we now CAN komentar on answers.

i think the etiquette still needs to be established. i wrote in the "suggestions" forum already because it seems pointless to me to answer pertanyaan a number of times if the answer is something like "it was season 2". the person who diposting the pertanyaan should be able to mark a pertanyaan as answered and then its like a closed pick, still viewable but anda cant vote anymore.
i think "i dont know" responses should be reported and removed.
also i think the "Answers" shouldnt be used for quizzes- just because youre bored and want to ask something :S

No,because people just think the same and people sometimes it's too hard and they can't answer it.

well i dont know..

my answer is, i think that it's dumb for people with the response 'i don't know' because i'm fairly sure jawaban will help towards medali and best jawaban will too.

so etiquettes hmm , No un-useful responses?
(which so i think i'm breaking my own etiquettes in this reply rely)