Most Frequently Asked Questions

These are the Most Frequently Asked Questions in 510 MiB of chat logs. Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

100. What kind?

Asked 23 times

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —Angel Wedge (Author talk) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

99. Lol?

Asked 23 times

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —Angel Wedge (Author talk) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

103. Wut?

Asked 23 times

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.

• My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
• If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
• If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
• Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
• If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to Frequently Asked Questions or Infrequently Asked Questions instead. Hope that explains everything —Angel Wedge (Author talk) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

102. Who knew?

Asked 23 times

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking you this time.

Who knew? —Angel Wedge (Author talk) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)