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"No stupid questions" was originally made as a space to ask questions that other communities might call you a moron for not knowing due to the perception of them as common knowledge/sense, so in that way any ask community outside of "no stupid questions" is "yes stupid questions" :p

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pawb.social

Yes, stupid questions are ones that could be answered by the information the asker already has with just a little thought. Its intellectual laziness

That's often confused with ignorance, where you lack some unknown piece of information to complete the puzzle

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No, stupid questions are ones asked that could be answered by the information the answerer already has questioned with just a little laziness, intellectually.

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lemmy.world

That's actually a brilliant question, it could be for dumb things the poster has been asked or seen asked.

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k0e3reply
lemmy.ca

It would just be screenshots of posts from here with snarky comments. I don't think we really need that.

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Would make sense to have a rule excluding "no stupid questions" and eli5-like communities from the sources. Perhaps even all of the fediverse.

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lemmy.world

[There are] no stupid questions

vs.

[There are] yes stupid questions

The latter just doesn't sound right.

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