Asks moronic, off-topic, irrelevant questions, expects everyone else to run around answering them. Genuine curiosity is a good thing – derailing the conversation with deliberately obtuse side questions is not.
Clues this is an Askhole and not a genuinely interested person:
- Asks bizarre, impossibly esoteric questions.
- Asks things that could be found out in two seconds on Google.
- Has no real interest in the answers.
- Asks the same question multiple times to different people in a comment thread, ignoring the answers.
- Refuses to do their own reading, even when directed to sources.
- Makes outrageous claims with no basis and asks others to do the leg-work refuting them. Gets the burden of proof back to front.
- Plays argument whack-a-mole.
Askhole catchphrases:
- Hey I’m just genuinely interested!
- I didn’t realise asking questions was a crime around here!
- I thought this was a place to educate people about feminism?
- If you can’t answer a simple question, how do you expect people to learn?
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