Since the popularity and volume of such threads has skyrocketed lately why not do a Ask the… Forum
I have seen Ask the … scattered among several forums and I think it could easily make its own forum. I’m sure is a broad enough variety of skills, jobs, religions, habits, ethnicities, and backgrounds among the dopers to make for a very useful and informative area.
Stuff like Esprix’s famous “Ask the the Gay Guy” would have a home befitting its stature and many fascinating threads will be less likely to be lost among hundreds of others.
“Ask the Muslim Guy” was one of the most valuable threads I have EVER read on this board. Might be cool to give “Ask the…” a forum all its own. People could chime in and relate the areas in which they consider themselves experts. A simple search would make it easy to find an expert on a given subject.
These sort of thinks tend to come and go. We last had a glut of such threads what, about a year ago? Then, all of a sudden, there were nary a two of them for months (Esprix’s stuck around, of course, but not much else). Now, apparently, someone else got the idea, and spawned a bunch of imitators again.
Besides, if you have a question about a particular subject, it’s much easier to just post it in GQ, and let the experts come to you.
Please don’t. Out of the dozens of them (and there are dozens and dozens of them) only a few have been of real interest; most of them are subjects that most people don’t really care about or jokes mocking the fad. What might be nice is to have links to some of the more apropos threads in a FAQ page.
On a related note, is there enough interest around for an “Ask the Orthodox Jews” thread? I’d be willing to start one if I thought that people were interested (and if Zev and Chaim and others agreed to help - I haven’t got the time this semester to devote as much attention as I’m sure it’d require). If there isn’t interest, I’d rather not clog up the boards with an unnecessary “Ask the…”
