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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Housekeeping Introducing Question Land!

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Do you have a question? Sure you do! And now you have a place to go with your burning questions... The Stranger's Question Land!

In Question Land, you can ask like-minded Stranger readers anything that's on your mind! Like, "Where can I find a good cannoli in Seattle?" or "Do the dryers in public bathrooms pull bathroom germs from the air and blow them directly onto your hands?"

And if you have knowledge to share, you can answer questions too! Maybe you know where to find the best dentist in Seattle? Tell Question Land!

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Great. Another way to waste my valuable time. Thanks assholes.

Posted by Rotten666 on April 2, 2009 at 12:36 PM

great idea. crappy logo.

Posted by jameyb on April 2, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Sounds like a dumbed down Dear Science.

Posted by wisepunk on April 2, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Gnomes aren't trolls.

Posted by duh on April 2, 2009 at 12:55 PM

Does this mean you will finally get rid of the forums? I don't go there, but I'd feel better if I knew the people who did were treated like shit.

Posted by GTFO on April 2, 2009 at 12:58 PM

And this differs from communty.livejournal.com/seattle how, exactly?

It sure isn't going to be the level of sark...

Posted by COMTE on April 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM

I agree with @6.

There doesn't seem to be a search box. Am I missing it? Are you going to add it? Or will you be leaving it up to Google?

Posted by bdferris on April 2, 2009 at 1:18 PM

@6 The Stranger doesn't get ad revenue from livejournal.

Posted by Renton Mike on April 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Damn you questionland! WHEN WILL THE QUESTIONS STOP?!?1

Posted by Original Monique on April 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM

@8:

Good point.

Posted by COMTE on April 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM

@6 this is better than the seattle livejournal community as it probably reaches a wider audience

Posted by orly? on April 2, 2009 at 1:40 PM

And this is better than Ask MetaFilter how?

Posted by dw on April 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM

It sounds like the straight dope message board to me (15 years too late...)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/

Posted by emma's bee on April 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM

For god's sake, what's with all the "something similar has been done before" comments? Is there some kind of a rule about having only one of something on the Internet?

Posted by Go Back to LiveJournal, Then on April 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM

Is the new Questionland animation why visiting Slog now makes an Adobe FlashPlayer 9 window pop up that asks me where the "debugger" is running? Maybe this is only happening to me. Dammit Safari!

Posted by leek on April 2, 2009 at 3:36 PM

I tried using it and it kept saying "shut up, Fnarf" in the reply.

You need to fix it.

Posted by Will in Seattle on April 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM

@14 i suppose you could post your question to the new site... but, you know, it's probably already been asked and answered.

Posted by infrequent on April 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM

Your User Interface really sucks. The troll covers up the ends of sentences, and the edit button doesn't work. Using Firefox on a pc.

Posted by almost there though. on April 3, 2009 at 8:46 AM

And if you have knowledge to share, you can answer questions too!

OK: "Where can I find a good cannoli in Seattle?" is ungrammatical, because cannoli is singular. Get rid of the "a." Or substitute "cannolo."

Posted by Knowledge to share on April 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM