What is your definition of a good question?

A great question does not depend on any answer and not on any interpretation from people. A question can be good even it is not answered from another person. If the question comes from an authentic need to find an answer, then even the question is directed to the outside, the answer might show up from the inside of the person who is asking. When the question creates the opening and connection with the inner space, then it is a 'good question'.

BeiYin

Edit: And of course the answer is good if it triggers and reminds one of the question one was carrying and not yet have pronounced it and then finally finding the answer because one has grown into it. In plain words: The answer comes out of ones *being* and not just from ones intellectual knowledge...

On the other hand:

A question might be felt as good when it gives the opportunity to answer and so makes oneself feel confirmed in ones position and established self image. That's probably the majority of 'good questions' but for me these questions are just part of the personality games...

A question while reading, the mind should say Good.

It varies from individual to individual mind depending upon many factors inter alia how developed is the mind.

Details: Isidora - When mind is full developed, it merges with the Soul. Then the questoner and the answerer all will be the Witness the Soul. I said mind, due to my awareness, that the answerers are mostly of material plane of consciousness where mind dominates. You have said it yourself" why there are so extremely many silly and nonsese questions.........nonsense answers" meaning you are looking at the questons and answers from a spiritual plane of consciousness from where the sansara or the material world looks silly and nonsensical. If not, all the questons here should have confined to spiritual questions because the souls are interacting then. I could not therefore include intuition, gutfeeling and many other attributes of the Soul.

Well, I think all questions are good. But I think you mean "interesting"; and, in that case, in my humble oppion, any question that doesn't have one answer...the questions where the answers are a matter of opinion, are interesting. I mean, there's questions like "What's 2 + 2?" and there's a definite answer. But then there's questions like "Is there a God?" The question may not necessarily be hard to answer, but the thing is, there is not a definite one answer, it varies from person to person.

When we see that a question has more than one answer, I think it prompts us to find an answer. I wanna say that the answers to the questions I have been describing are our beliefs. And they're something that everyone wants to answer.

So, I think a question is "good" when the answer is a matter of opinion, and the an answer will differ from person to person, and comes from everything you experience.

A question is ask from a certain stand point, so even the level might be low compared to others, but it will be a good question if it is reaching out to go further, beyond ones still limited view.

If a question is ask to find just confirmation for ones position, then I wouldn't call it a good question even though it might serve its purpose.

Teddy

i do think that a good question is that question in which u try to condense all the dubts and the ideas that u've been trying to solve without thinking of all the mistakes u think u could make on doing it, For example, i'm italian and i know my english is awfull not to say uncomprensible (considering that this term does really exists), but i'm tryng to comunicating something my brian is producting trhough all the biology fisiologic processes and i think that this is the most important think to insert into a question: trying to comunicate all u want and get the answers u think u need!

PS sorry for my engish but i've tried to be clearer than i could^^'

The measure of a good question is in how hard it is to answer it. Not because the question doesn't make sense, but because there is no common sense answer that people agree on.

One that was needed to make a discovery about the subject and that led to other questions.

A good question is a question which is good.

I meant that a good question is which makes you know about something , which does good for you and others.

Finding answer to a question really makes you know about some other thing.

A good question should make you think.

An intelligent and a clearly written question is my definition of a good question.

A definition of a good question is when

your 3 year old child, keeps asking "WHY?" <}:-})