[wil421]

Amazon has an ask a question feature and it will email a lot of people who previously bought the product, not sure how it works. Anyway, I saw tons of responses from elderly people with nonsense answers like “I don’t know the answers please don’t email me”. People felt compelled to respond, now I see why Nigerian prince scams are so successful.

[kennysoona]

There was a story recently that Reese Witherspoon was in a jury, and the other members of the Jury genuinely thought she was a lawyer because of Legally Blonde.

That kind of ridiculousness is way more common than you think. These people shouldn't be allowed to vote let alone try to assist in solving even remotely complex IT problems.

[abanana]

Also see Yahoo Answers, who got the gamification completely wrong (Stack Overflow later got it right). Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.

[kennysoona]

> Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.

lol, I remember that but I forgot all about that until I saw your comment. Man that late 90s early 2000s internet was something else.