Meta - should we add a new rule to the sidebar prohibiting single word answers?

It really grinds my gears when there’s an c/asklemmy question and the top most responses are single word answers.

For example, a question asking for the most mind-bending movie will often have the same few movies upvoted to the top (“The Matrix”, “Inception”, “Finding Nemo 2”, etc).

Those truly might be the most popular mind-bending movies, but what I really want to know is why the person answering the question feels the way that they do. Otherwise these types of questions can become stale very quickly, as can be seen on other platforms.

Thoughts?

collegefurtrader,

No

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

This

__forward__,

If enough people think that a simple “yay” is funny enough to be upvoted near the top it probably is. If it is not upvoted it is not really a problem. Sure they are low-effort comments but in the age of ChatGPT, you can also write low-effort answers that are much longer. It is the voter’s responsibility, not the moderator’s, to separate interesting posts from non-interesting ones.

RustedSwitch,
@RustedSwitch@lemmy.world avatar

So downvote those answers, or engage with the commenter in other ways

ScorpionFrog,
@ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world avatar

No

crowbar,

Hmm

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

Nope

can,

Affirmative

Karlos_Cantana,
@Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz avatar

“Finding Nemo 2” is a 3 word answer.

aCosmicWave,

False. “2” is a number and not a word.

poke,

Finding Nemo two

Karlos_Cantana,
@Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz avatar

Then it’s a 2 word, and 1 number answer.

favrion,
@favrion@lemmy.ml avatar

False; it’s a proper noun encompassing one object.

meta_synth,

No

WackyTabbacy42069,

Agreed

bermuda,

I think a question that gets 1-word answers is not a well written question.

Your question can be a yes or no but it’ll only generate valuable discussion if you ad “and why”

SpaceExplorer,

Why?

Blizzard,

Depends

James,

You want descriptive answers? Make a descriptive question.

It can be as simple as ‘what is “x” and why?’

aCosmicWave,

Missed opportunity for you to say ‘what is “x” and y?’

king_dead,

Nah. Some questions are so dumb, bad, or tedious that they deserve a curt response. I totally get what youre getting at tho

omma,

For my part, I prefer precise answers. If I only ask about a film, I don’t expect to be told what feelings the film triggers in you or what chips are best to nibble with it. If you want to know that, formulate the question accordingly :)

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