My Ask Metafilter question was removed as chatfilter. What does that mean?
Ask Metafilter questions need to have some possible answer or should be asking for information that will be put to some practical use. Chatty open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of Ask Metafilter and push other questions off the front page. If you want to avoid having your question flagged and possibly removed, here are some things to avoid. – Questions where everyone’s answer is equally valid along the lines of “What’s your favorite X?”. Maybe there is a reason you want to know? Super, just put it in your question. – Asking the question and giving your own answer before getting the answers of others, saying some variant of “I’ll go first” If you can authoritatively answer your own question, it’s probably not right for AskMe. – Questions with no problem to be solved or where the problem is some variant of “I’m curious if other people feel like I do” – Open-ended unanswerable or hypothetical questions like “What if Hitler had never been born?” or made up “what if” science quest
