I thought General Questions was supposed to be reserved for those questions with a factual answer. Instead we have someone asking “what bit me”? and another one asking “how big should a penis be” and yet someone asking about cutting things with a fork.
I mean, cmon, arent these asking for opinions instead of factual answers?
The reason is that some posters are not very careful when considering appropriate placement of their thread.
Shouldn’t this be in the BBQ Pit? 
Well, I can see what you mean by the “cutting things with a fork” thread. It’s unclear what was meant by the penis size question, though; I can see that one being either factual or opinion-based. But the “what bit me?” thread seems well-suited to General Questions, IMO.
I think if you can only find three threads on the front page that seem out of place, then people are doing a good job. 
Those three things were right off the top of my head. Someone else over there was asking why “silent farts smell so deadly”.
There’s a lot of other posts over in GQ that are non factual. They are matters of opinion. Why don’t the moderators simply drag those posts to their respective forums?
If we moved every borderline thread, we wouldn’t have time to piss, our bladders would explode, we would die, and GQ would go completely unmoderated. Nobody wants to see that happen, least of all me.
The penis question, I think, was a valid GQ. The question is not a poll of “How big do you think a proper-sized penis should be?” but “How big are penises on average for young men of these age groups?” The latter has a factual answer.
The what-bit-me thread is another valid GQ. Presumably it was a given species of arthropod that did the biting and the name of the species would constitute the factual answer. Whether or not anyone can divine the correct answer at this stage is yet to be determined.
I haven’t seen the cutting-things-with-a-fork or the silent-farts threads yet so I can’t say whether or not they belong. Give us a chance; there are only so many hours in a day. A few days ago I moved a thread to MPSIMS that had been wrongly floating around in GQ for several days before I saw it. The mills of the mods grind slow and all that. You can always use the report-this-post function if a thread’s placement really bothers you that much.
OH, so now you’re complaining about the Mods?
They do just what you suggest. They do it as soon as they can. They just aren’t on here full-time. Payment-by-mug just doen’t attract the kind of help one would like, I guess.
Just FYI…
Complaints about the mods belong in the pit too.
I’m not really complaining about the mods. For the most part they do a good job. I’m just noting the fact that a lot of the questions in GQ are matters of of opinion, not matters of fact.
As a matter of fact, that’s a matter of opinion.
Of the 50 threads showing on the front page of GQ moments ago, I only counted 6 titles (no where near most) which would lead me to believe there was no factual answer for the question. The other 46 seemed pretty straightforward.
You may have just gone to GQ at a time when a higher proportion of questions than normal weren’t answerable other than by opinion.
Why “silent farts smell so deadly” seems to me to be a question with a factual answer. It’s probably got something to do with chemistry. It’s certainly as valid as “why is shit brown?” The OP didn’t ask “who else thinks silent farts are deadly?” That would go in IMHO.
I think you’re exaggerating when you say “most” of the threads are opinion-based. While some thread OPs and occasional posts opinion-based, by no means are the majority of them.
With the volume of threads that get started in GQ, it’s impressive that GQ is as well-kept as it is.
The “cutting things with a fork” thread has factual answers as well; it was asking about ettiquette. Several different factual answers, but factual nonetheless. I didn’t read the “What bit me” thread, but if something actually bit the guy…I guess that question also has a factual answer. Lots threads get posted there that should be in cafe society or IMHO, but c’mon, not most!
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Crap, I see Cecil answered that one already. Ah, hell, I’m posting it anyway.