Aside from the technical and grammatical aspects, as also outlined in Musing’s curation guide, questions should have longevity and appeal to a large audience, or be ultra specialised long-tail niche questions.
Asking if Bitcoin will go up/down/sidewards/#tothemoon today has little value. Same applies to questions wondering when STEEM (or cryptoes) will go to the moon... and back.
Unless an economist replies to those, those questions are mostly conversational and asked everywhere all the time.
A great question is a question which can receive brilliant, preferable long form answers. Ideally, a great question even has the potential to be followed by journalist (or bloggers) and covered on their site.
While I’m not a Musing curator and thus can’t state this with any certitude, I think that when Musing becomes more known and somebody where to ask “Why did Chuck Palahniuk go almost broke and had to possibly sell his house?”, that could be a solid question deserving an upvote.
In the case of that question reasons would be:
1. Chuck Palahniuk is a very popular author
2. People may think that popular authors are rich, yet he’s almost broke. The question contains a shock element
3. Both combined could/will results in people who love the platform, especially those who read books and/or like Chuck, to start digging deeper and provide an awesome answer. An answer which could become a reference, both for those who ask and, of course, in Google. Solid questions with great answers could also draw in audience from other platforms, like Reddit.
They have “appeal”, appeal beyond a small echo community, unless they serve an ultra-niche and specialized community.
Good questions are IMHO targeted rather than vague. A good question requires that the person who answers needs to actually think. Maybe even do some research if they’re not a specialist in that domain already. Generic questions which the questions feed is full with serve nothing and nobody, at best they only annoy in the ‘yet again that same question’ sense.
For the platform specifically, good questions also have a chance to perform well in Google. Especially if the answers go beyond a quick 100 words reply. Once Musing becomes more popular, and thus stronger in Google as well, great questions can also be bound to timely events or the “zeitgeist”.
A Zeitgeist question which comes to mind would be something around Brexit, or a question about what would potentially be different with Pence as President of the USA if Trump were impeached. These are jsut examples but I hope you get the gist.
PS: Don’t try those questions, they may not get an upvote. As said I’m not a Musing team member and the team will probably know better what questions are best to be highlighted at what point in time for the platform. But I would love to follow them, especially the Palahniuk question, when somebody does ask them. ;)
Aside from the technical and grammatical aspects, as also outlined in Musing’s curation guide, questions should have longevity and appeal to a large audience, or be ultra specialised long-tail niche questions.
Asking if Bitcoin will go up/down/sidewards/#tothemoon today has little value. Same applies to questions wondering when STEEM (or cryptoes) will go to the moon... and back.
Unless an economist replies to those, those questions are mostly conversational and asked everywhere all the time.
A great question is a question which can receive brilliant, preferable long form answers. Ideally, a great question even has the potential to be followed by journalist (or bloggers) and covered on their site.
While I’m not a Musing curator and thus can’t state this with any certitude, I think that when Musing becomes more known and somebody where to ask “Why did Chuck Palahniuk go almost broke and had to possibly sell his house?”, that could be a solid question deserving an upvote.
In the case of that question reasons would be:
1. Chuck Palahniuk is a very popular author
2. People may think that popular authors are rich, yet he’s almost broke. The question contains a shock element
3. Both combined could/will results in people who love the platform, especially those who read books and/or like Chuck, to start digging deeper and provide an awesome answer. An answer which could become a reference, both for those who ask and, of course, in Google. Solid questions with great answers could also draw in audience from other platforms, like Reddit.
They have “appeal”, appeal beyond a small echo community, unless they serve an ultra-niche and specialized community.
Good questions are IMHO targeted rather than vague. A good question requires that the person who answers needs to actually think. Maybe even do some research if they’re not a specialist in that domain already. Generic questions which the questions feed is full with serve nothing and nobody, at best they only annoy in the ‘yet again that same question’ sense.
For the platform specifically, good questions also have a chance to perform well in Google. Especially if the answers go beyond a quick 100 words reply. Once Musing becomes more popular, and thus stronger in Google as well, great questions can also be bound to timely events or the “zeitgeist”.
A Zeitgeist question which comes to mind would be something around Brexit, or a question about what would potentially be different with Pence as President of the USA if Trump were impeached. These are jsut examples but I hope you get the gist.
PS: Don’t try those questions, they may not get an upvote. As said I’m not a Musing team member and the team will probably know better what questions are best to be highlighted at what point in time for the platform. But I would love to follow them, especially the Palahniuk question, when somebody does ask them. ;)
If I understand you correctly, you are wondering what would be required from a question in order to get an upvote from @musing. There is actually a guideline for this! The Curation Guidelines can be read with the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WKYGhdPhLKNHytsxAPPQiXyv5UBY6nUKM8IhG5PUgfA/edit?usp=sharing
Scroll a bit down and you will find the section where they explain what a great question is, and if you're lazy, here's a copy;
"- Starts with who, what when, where why rather than “bitcoin good?”
- Has proper grammar, spelling punctuation
- Is clear and specific enough to garner a mutual understanding between the asker and responder.
- Be respectful in your questions, do not make assumptions about race, religion, sex etc..
- Use the search feature and make sure your question has not already been answered.
- Questions can be about anything you want to know! "
So follow all of these guidelines, and your questions are a lot more likely to get upvoted by @musing's curators. Good luck!
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