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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Some questions are overasked tho in certain communities. I remember for example on r/AskMiddleEast that people where asking what the people's thoughts on Ataturk were, multiple times a day, sometimes even multiple time in an hour.
I was on that sub for only a month and people were doing this everyday. Some seemed genuinely curious, some played it up for the meme, but it still never stopped. Apparently this has been going even long before I joined.
In the end I left the sub, because the sub always had the same 5 posts on repeat constantly, even the comments and debates played out everytime exactly the same, to the point where people were just giving copy-pasted responses from previous discussions to each other.
I can understand, why someone would perhaps answer with "just google it" in this case.
Though the more healthy thing for this type of person would be to just log off and stop getting annoyed by reading through the same questions again and again and do something entirely new.