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Why is it that when you ask a question in the RIGHT category, you don't get any answers?

However, asking a question in the WRONG category gets you plenty of answers?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    People enjoy telling you that you're in the wrong category.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Perhaps it's because there are a lot of people answering to tell you that your are in the wrong category or maybe just maybe there are more people in the wrong category then in the right category at that particular point in time.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think a lot of people hang out in those categories unless they are very knowledgeable on that subject...everyone hangs out here in P&S lol =)

  • Keith
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    some categories don't have many people on them

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Well, I assume that everyone hangs out in Religion and Spirituality or Polls. That is where I hang out. Mmm

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know, I never get many answers to my questions and most of them are pretty good.

  • wanda
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    because all of the other categories r too slow...

  • 1 decade ago

    good question! i never get any answers!

  • Mag
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    it depends what the question is.. i guess

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    BECAUSE

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