r/AskReddit • u/maxxjs999 • Jan 27 '23
What questions are you tired of seeing on Ask Reddit?
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u/X_PRSN Jan 27 '23
Red flag/green flag questions.
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u/redtaken__ Jan 27 '23
Red flag: being mean to servers
Green flag: doing the bare minimum
Every single time
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u/NastyBooty Jan 28 '23
"My boyfriend cleans up after himself and even knows how to cook"
So he's an adult...?
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u/Crazy-Bid4760 Jan 28 '23
My husband has changes nappies & doesn't ignore our child
So he does less than bare minimum with your shared child & is somehow amazing...?
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u/im_the_real_dad Jan 28 '23
Hey, I change crappy diapers even when it's not my kid. You have no idea what a chick magnet that is!
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u/comic_serif Jan 28 '23
Like, the being mean to servers thing comes up so consistently that I'm almost tempted to say people will deliberately hide that behaviour on the first date.
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u/well_known_bastard Jan 27 '23
I wanna hear about blue flags.
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u/No-Athlete2113 Jan 27 '23
May I interest you in the beautiful country of Argentina
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u/LaylaTheLoofa
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People of reddit, what is the sexiest sexy sexy sexy sex you have ever vagina sex penis sex sex sex??
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u/feisty-spirit-bear Jan 27 '23
Men/women of reddit, whats an automatic turn on/off about men/women?
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u/Prudent_Hawk_7476 Jan 27 '23
People of Reddit, what did a crush do that instantly turned you off from them?
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u/CoyoteWee Jan 27 '23
This one gets a pass from me but it's on thin ice.
Pros: The top comments can be absolute gold for a good ol' fashioned "WTF" story.
Cons: The rest are always the same old "they were rude to someone" or "they did a weird thing in front of me" and then don't elaborate on that at all.
Give me something juicy or don't give me anything at all.
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u/Alternefhj Jan 27 '23
Question where no one can answer or question that attack the people who the question is asked to.
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u/PaulbunyanIND Jan 27 '23
Andy Richter's show which was criminally underrated tackled this. Andy was dating the most perfect beautiful woman who happened to wish demolition of the Jewish race. He hems and haws and eventually breaks up with her but hates himself for doing the right thing
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u/KiwiHorror1 Jan 28 '23
"women of reddit, what's the sexiest time your giant titties accidentally flopped out in public, in excruciating detail??"
filled with penthouse magazine fanfic-esque responses clearly written by men pretending to be writing from the point of view of women, getting upvoted to the top, and any actual responses by women get downvoted because they aren't hot enough or are calling them out for being fake
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u/Dev2150 Jan 27 '23
Cocks of Reddit, where can you find the switch from females? What is the cheat code?
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u/BenovanStanchiano Jan 27 '23
The “of Reddit” is weird. It’s being posted on Reddit, why would people need to be reminded?
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u/PeanutButterCrisp Jan 27 '23
I think it lends more to the idea that you’re addressing the room.
It’s like performers saying, “Can all the ___ in the room, say hey!”
Of course you’re addressing the people in the room. We’re the ones who came to see you!
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u/draiman Jan 27 '23
They need to do what r/AskMen did and ban overly sexual questions, as I'm sure there are subs out there to ask those kinds of things.
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u/mr-blindsight Jan 27 '23
like 90% of askreddit posts are just this honestly. the answers are even less original
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u/Badloss Jan 27 '23
I both agree with this and click on those first so clearly they aren't stopping anytime soon
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u/TheHessianHussar Jan 27 '23
But there still have to be people who upvote those posts EVERY SINGLE DAY
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u/DeepestWinterBlue Jan 27 '23
Bunch of pubescent horn dogs in here. I blame the Bible bet for not teaching proper sex education.
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u/Wizard_of_Claus
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"If someone offered you a million bajillion super dollars to sit on a thumbtack for 13.42 days, would you do it???"
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u/Sprinklypoo Jan 27 '23
The worst part is the "and why?"
Because: money you dumbass.
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u/DM_ME_UR_TITTAYS Jan 27 '23
I would only do this if I was asked to sit on a staple, fuck thumbtacks.
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u/brock_lee Jan 27 '23
What is something illegal that should be legal, and vice versa.
What was "the incident" in your school
What would you do if you woke up as the opposite sex
What are you doing with the money if you won the lottery
What is your opinion on Andrew Tate
And the inevitable flood of the opposite of the top question on the front page hoping for karma.
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u/Badloss Jan 27 '23
I like the school incident ones!
Any "share X story" posts are good IMO because you get to hear interesting stories and they aren't always the same ones. I honestly don't care if there's a repeat of the "hey sailors whats the creepiest thing you've seen at sea" types of posts because the answers are always entertaining
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u/Crafty_Passenger1979 Jan 27 '23
I don't mind repeat questions that bring up new stories every time. Those make for good threads. The ones I dislike are the ones where everyone just seems like they're racing to post the same old answers those questions get every time: influencers, Kardashians, people who are rude to servers, child beauty pageants, etc. Those lend themselves to circle-jerks rather than interesting discussions.
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u/Diiiiirty Jan 27 '23
I honestly don't care if there's a repeat of the "hey sailors whats the creepiest thing you've seen at sea" types of posts because the answers are always entertaining
That was a really good thread. Read some cool shit.
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u/ajlposh Jan 27 '23
Yes! Any threads that require you to share a story are great! Special recognition goes to wedding horror story threads
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u/corporatemumbojumbo Jan 28 '23
What is something that is accepted by society and is definitely a scam
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Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
"What's an immediate red flag/green flag in a relationship?"
"What are you listening to right now?"
"What's your favourite _______?"
"Who's the _______ person you know?"
"What's your top 5 ________?"
"Students of Reddit, what happened to the _______ in your school?"
and NSFW questions made by silly teenagers
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u/Feeceling Jan 27 '23
Europeans, what is the ____ about America and vice versa.
Its a whole clown fiesta getting both sides railed up with nothing to be gained
HAHA AMERICAN HEALTHCARE AND IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS
HAHA EUROPEANS ARE SOCIALIST AND ARE FULL OF THEMSELVES
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u/pinniped1 Jan 27 '23
TEXAS IS BIGGER THAN EVERYTHING.
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u/ddrober2003 Jan 27 '23
Usually those end up being, the weird thing about America is how much of a shithole it is. The weird thing about Europe is how much better it is than the shithole that is America it is. It's always the same thing every time it's asked lol.
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u/DaymanFOTNM28 Jan 27 '23
I’m getting sick of the sob story prompting questions like “men what do women not understand about you?”
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u/KaRue3 Jan 27 '23
Men of reddit and women of reddit.
I fucking hate this shit.
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u/selloboy Jan 27 '23
I want them to ban gendered questions like this cause it always leads to the worst discourse I’ve ever seen
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u/No_Sheepherder5049 Jan 27 '23
i see ‘what’s the worst thing about being a man/woman’ way too much
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u/Treppenwitz_shitz Jan 28 '23
So much “men don’t get enough compliments so women should fix that even though it puts them in an awkward position of having the man immediately think they want sex now”
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u/themoogleknight Jan 28 '23 •
Yes, and so many angry men replying to every response in the 'women' thread about how it does TOO happen to men too and ACTUALLY men are the true victims of everything
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u/MrConfidential678 Jan 27 '23
What celebrity do you REALLY not care about and why is it the Kardashians?
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u/Hydra_Master Jan 27 '23
Don't forget James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel/Fallon, and Ellen Degeneres. I think that covers all the answers you ever get in those threads.
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u/throwawyfcat12 Jan 27 '23
I wish there was a way to unsubscribe to the NSFW askreddit posts because they're all the same
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u/ApplesAndPants Jan 27 '23
Oh God, someone make this so. I will be first in line to unsubscribe.
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u/Itsgivingbitch Jan 28 '23
I came here to say I’m over the sex questions. Im not remotely a prude either. They’re just always unoriginal imo 🤷🏽♀️
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u/Ruminations0 Jan 27 '23
Do men/women like X?
Do women like X penis trait?
Just super general shit that always has “some do some don’t” as an answer
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u/nerdy_latino Jan 27 '23
What's your body count?
Straight people, would you have gay sex?
What would you do if you switched genders for a day?
What kind of questions you're tired of seeing on Ask Reddit?
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u/maxxjs999 Jan 27 '23
What men don't understand about women
What women don't understand about men
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u/KiwiHorror1 Jan 28 '23 •
when it's a thread aimed at women that gets 10,000 responses, immediately a thread has to be made that rephrases the question aimed to men and gets like 200 tops because they just cannot possibly let a single thing exclude them lol
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u/SluggishPrey Jan 27 '23
Question where no one can answer or question that attack the people who the question is asked to. For instance: Billionaires of reddit, why don't you have a soul?
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u/Back2Bach Jan 27 '23
"How did you get that scar?"
"What song do you want played at your funeral?"
"What do you want written on your tombstone?"
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u/lunayoshi Jan 27 '23
If the answer to that last question isn't "pepperoni and cheese" then I'm sad.
(Yes, I know the joke falls flat if you add the "written on" part, but I like that commercial and that response, damnit. When I was a kid I thought it was hilarious.)
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u/jcole660 Jan 27 '23
So sick of the my country versus your country dick swinging competitions. Every place has advantages and disadvantages. Just shut up and enjoy Reddit communities.
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u/jerrythecactus Jan 27 '23
The endless NSFW questions. I swear sometimes it seems like this subreddit is just people who are getting off by reading people's "sexy" stories.
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u/HealingThroughMyPTSD Jan 27 '23
Why don’t you want to have kids?
I know in real life this conversation may be uncommon and hard to have when surrounded by parents but come on, there’s a whole subreddit to talk about why you don’t want/like children, why come here and constantly ask child free people why they are child free. It’s almost as annoying as hearing parents always talk about why they love being parents/love their kids.
I don’t even click those posts anymore because it’s always the same answers over and over and over. It’s a drag.
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u/FreeElf101 Jan 27 '23
"To Americans, why don't you do what the rest of the world does"
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u/AdamBombKelley Jan 27 '23
Same reason the zookeepers don't eat monkey chow and swing on a tire
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u/Sirhc978 Jan 27 '23
"What is legal that should be illegal" and vice versa
"Would you watch a show of a Billionaire CEO......"
Literally any question involving your username.
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u/AdmiralBofa Jan 27 '23
What's the sexiest sex you ever sexed & what made it so sexy?
What conspiracy theory do you actually believe?
What's your paranormal story?
What's the best advice you ever received?
What's a red flag in a relationship?
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u/slytherinprolly Jan 27 '23
What's the sexiest sex you ever sexed & what made it so sexy?
Let me tell you about thr time I really did actually have sex. You don't know her, she goes to a different school in Canada, we met at Summer camp. I had sex with her though.
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u/RustysRelices Jan 27 '23
“Women of Reddit, what’s the sexiest sexy sexiest sexual interaction sexiest sexy experience you have experienced.”
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u/Hebshesh Jan 27 '23
"Old people, what would you tell your ten year old self?"
"Old people, what advice would you give to a young person?"
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u/MariaRosa1995 Jan 27 '23
all the 'men of reddit...' 'women of reddit...'
But honestly mostly the men ones because it always ends up becoming a complete whine fest about something strange like men not receiving enough compliments or no one taking care of men. I think people get back what they give out in life and this is not gender specific.
Then there will ALWAYS be that one female poster like 'I always make sure to give at least 100 compliments to men a day and initiate everything!!' and then there's about a million replies from men like 'we salute you O-O' it's very very cringe.
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u/FlyLo21 Jan 27 '23
As a man, the men ones are very ironic to me.
Most of the things that men complain about in those threads (for example, men's emotional needs not being taken as seriously) are directly a result of the world that men created. A patriarchal world with rigid societal gender norms and expectations, where men are privileged and in power and therefore are not given the same emotional socialization as woman because they need to be "tough" and "manly" in order to maintain that power. Obviously that is a simplified explanation. But if men want that to end (and I for sure do), they need to be a part of the conversation and acknowledge how the patriarchy and toxic masculinity fucked them over.
Not to mention, those whine fests tend to really invalidate the struggles woman go through as a result of the patriarchy and toxic masculinity. Sure, men are scared women will laugh at them. Women are scared men will kill them.
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u/ci22 Jan 28 '23
I mean for women it's harder to go walk in questionable areas or even at night alone. Also human traffickers tend to target women.
Why everytime I go somewhere far or in the city area I get the be careful of human trafficking talk.
Like I doubt men get that talk. Young boys yes. Full grown men. IDK do they
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u/metroids91 Jan 27 '23
"What album is a perfect 10/10" or "What album is flawless start to finish" or any variation. Feel like I see it every week and get immediate 10,000+ upvotes
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u/Weak_Thought6644 Jan 27 '23
Really don’t like questions that involve your username. Something about those I just find so boring and lame and yet usually they’re the most upvoted and answered. Maybe everyone else just has much cooler usernames.
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u/hmmgross Jan 27 '23
Someone's obligated to reply with "this one".
They're kind of correct. I've kind of given up on asking genuine questions because all I get are asinine or aggressively defensive responses. This sub kinda sucks.
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u/tehKrakken55 Jan 27 '23
"People who have a position I don't like personally, how do you justify it?"
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u/galaxyeyes47 Jan 27 '23
Gendered questions.
“Men, what do you…. About women?” “Men, how can women….. better for you?” “Men, what do women do that….. you?”
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u/Witchy_Titan Jan 27 '23
This one >:C
For real though, I'll have to say "What was great before everyone started doing it?"
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u/ballsOfWintersteel Jan 27 '23
What was great before everyone started doing it?
Asking questions on AskReddit
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u/YourMomGiselle Jan 27 '23
Any NSFW questions that have the same basic format that screams "Behold the power of horny summoning!"
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u/TheNameless00 Jan 27 '23
What is a scam that is so normalised that it isn't seen that way?
What was once respected but is now a complete joke?
I see those two pretty much every day at this point
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Jan 27 '23
relationship advice, where there's a sub reddit dedicated to just that r/relationship_advice
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u/RyuugaDota Jan 27 '23
Reddit, would you accept this absurdly large sum of money for a minor inconvenience?
I literally saw someone ask reddit if they would accept millions of dollars if they "had to consume 15,000 calories in 24 hours." Fuck off lmao.
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u/RamenTheory Jan 28 '23
Men/Women of Reddit? What makes a Man/Woman instantly attractive/unattractive?
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u/Rodux_ Jan 28 '23
Questions exclusivy applying to Americans, it's not just an American sub. But many yankees seem to think english = american
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u/FlyLo21 Jan 27 '23
Heteronormative gender-based questions, i.e. "men of reddit..."
I'm always reminded that Reddit is full of very young dudes with questions like that.
Also, questions asking about what the "best" of something is. Albums, video games, movies, whatever. Form your own opinions you children.
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u/ineverdidunderstand Jan 27 '23
What about females/males make your dick hard/pus throb. I dont fucking care what turns you all on. Ffs
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u/DeathSpiral321 Jan 27 '23
"What's your favorite movie?"
It's not an open ended question, which technically violates the sub rules. Also, there's already a sub to discuss movies (r/movies), so keep your movie questions off this sub.
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u/Koalasonreddit Jan 27 '23
This is the ask Reddit thread to end all ask Reddit threads. Pack it up y’all, we did it.
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u/Ghost7319 Jan 27 '23
Anything related to gaming and the exact same answers no matter what question is asked.
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u/_Weyland_ Jan 27 '23
Celebrity questions. "What celebrity is a good/bad person?" and endless variations of that question.
I'd say sex questions also, but I have no experience of my own and taking notes never hurts.
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u/Windermed Jan 27 '23
Sexiest sexxidors of sexxit, what is the sexiest sex you've ever sexed as a sex in the sex?
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u/Intelligent_Dumbass_ Jan 28 '23
"What celebrities do you dislike?"
It's always the Kardashians, Ellen DeGeneres, James Corden, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Erza Miller and all TikTokers. I also find it annoying how people on this sub think they're so special for disliking these people, when hating them are extremely popular opinions, and plus this question gets asked like every month, so it's not even new to Reddit.
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u/Intelligent_Dumbass_ Jan 28 '23
Honestly, almost all of them because this sub has just been like the same 30 questions reposted for a couple of years now.
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u/LitoTheUnknownPrince Jan 27 '23
"red flags"
The term is so overused. Nothing can just be a character flaw anymore, it's gotta be a dealbreaker, just another brick in the wall of our ever growing stray from critical thinking and nuance and into the dangerous realms of moral absolutism.
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u/gugudan Jan 27 '23
sexers of reddit, what's the sexiest sex you ever sexed
what do you think of america
if you woke up as the opposite sex, what would you do
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u/ExistenceNow Jan 27 '23
Nothing specific, but just general shit where if you typed in your question to Google it would literally be the first answer that popped up.
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u/Dame87 Jan 27 '23
Although I get your point, where is the fun in that? Nowadays you can Google pretty much anything and obtain an answer. Personally I would hate to see conversation drying up because everyone just Googles it.
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u/tk10000000 Jan 27 '23
Body count questions. If you’re gonna judge people for having sex just judge people for having sex, stop asking us for validation that for being judgmental.
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u/The_llama123 Jan 27 '23
"If (x) did (y)..."
"Sexy sexy sex sex..."
"What questions are you tired of seeing on Ask Reddit?"
"If man / woman / anyone did (x)"
"What is your opinion on (x)"
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u/Broskii56 Jan 27 '23
What’s the worst thing you ever did? But then the “nice try not today fbi” comments
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u/Pure_Commercial1156 Jan 27 '23
"What do you think of this country?" Provides answers that are purely based on warped media portrayals of that country
And dumb sex questions
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u/CaptainMcAnus Jan 27 '23
Honestly? Most of them at this point. It's a revolving door. Hell, even this question is included.
I get it's hard to have original questions at this point in the subs lifetime, but goddamn.
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u/MikeyMortadella Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
Anything “what are your thoughts on” questions. Ask Reddit used to be filled with great story telling. I was reading a thread on here the other day, “sailors of Reddit, what are your scariest stories” and there are captivating stories in there. I couldn’t stop reading them, and that’s when I realized how much I miss the way this subreddit was 5-10 years ago.
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u/hoosierhiver Jan 27 '23
People of Reddit, here is the slowest softball pitch of a question ever, reply so I get points.
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u/Riverrat423 Jan 27 '23
Is it OK for white people to say the N…. Word ….? Just looking for loopholes to say a “bad” word.
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u/TheGreatQ-Tip Jan 27 '23
It's less about the questions and more about the answers they tend to attract. Some of the common questions only get stale because the same answers get repeated again and again, they have the potential to be interesting though.
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u/ApexBarber Jan 27 '23
I love them but the “what’s your favorite conspiracy theory” one seems to be weekly.
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u/leafmealone303 Jan 27 '23
The “what should they teach in schools” question. Class offerings vary widely between schools and districts and even states. And even if it was a mandatory course in your last few years, would most of them even pay attention? And the recorder joke? You likely took that in late elementary or middle school, ffs. You’re not going to learn how to do taxes as a replacement for recorder when you’re 10-14 years old.
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u/BETOSCORPION92 Jan 27 '23
"Men/Women of reddit. What would [insert question] if you were [insert opposite gender]?"
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u/fuzzycuffs Jan 27 '23
What's the first thing you do if you switched genders the next morning?
I mean, we all know we'd masturbate. A lot.
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u/MTN_Dewit Jan 27 '23
Sex related questions. No one wants to know your sex life or what you and your partner do when yall "get busy". That's private information and it should stay that way
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u/Avocadofarmer32 Jan 27 '23
What video game has the best soundtrack
What movie/ tv show do you wish you could see for the first time again?
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u/greenglasstree Jan 27 '23
I hate how on /r/AskReddit and /r/MapPorn redditors in general and on other subreddits act like America and Europe are the whole world in its entirety.
Occassionally someone will mention Australia, New Zealand, or Canada but I'd like to see more questions directed to Africans, Latin Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders.
I don't want to see the 92784005th question "Europeans, what do you think of X facet of life in America?"
I'd prefer to hear what Tanzanians, Mongolians, and Bolivians have to say.
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u/Hydra_Master Jan 27 '23
What celebrity do you hate?
We get it, you hate James Corden, the Kardashians, and Jimmy Kimmel/Fallon.
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u/69_RADI8 Jan 27 '23
Contrary to a lot of people, "what happens after death" seems to pop up in my recommend a lot
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u/DonkeyTron42 Jan 27 '23
Questions asking what kind of questions people are tired of seeing on Ask Reddit.
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u/GoodAlicia Jan 27 '23
About death.
What do you want as last meal? What are your last words? What happens after?
Dont know, dont care. Please ask more positive questions, please
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u/Reddittttor123 Jan 27 '23
I swear the "What conspiracy do you actually believe" question has been asked every day for the past month.
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u/more_beans_mrtaggart Jan 27 '23
If someone paid you <impobable $bn> to do <improbable act> what would you do?
Seriously, teenage weekend Reddit is a shitstorm of these posts.
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u/HeartCrafty2961 Jan 27 '23
Anything that ends with "and why?". Smacks of a bot to me, designed to add content. IMO normal people don't think to add that line. Looking at you reddit dev shits.
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u/Eyfordsucks Jan 28 '23
Anything that can be answered by googling it.
Questions designed to “trigger” people.
Questions trying to piggyback on a trend or viral video.
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u/ForestHarlequin Jan 28 '23
"What's your favourite smell?" Because I'm sick of everyone explaining that the smell after it rains is called petrichor. I don't know how many times I've read that on askreddit now
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u/ikingrpg Jan 28 '23
"if you were opposite gender what would you do"
"If I gave you 1000 dollars what would you spend it on"
"Non americas what you do think of Americans..." And vice versa
"How do you feel about (big news story everyone's already talking about)"
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u/thebiggestpinkcake Jan 27 '23
What's your most controversial opinion?
Top comments are usually:
I believe climate change is bad
Puppies/kittens are cute
Everyone should make a living wage
I hate bad people
(Basically none of the top comments are remotely controversial)