16 votes
Add option to show "related" questions/answers after asking a question
Some questions may have already been asked/answered before. Would be a nice option to request "related" questions/answers to what you've just asked.
Status:
declined
This is an interesting suggestion. The reason that we don't do this is because Aardvark is based on the ability to get real-time answers from people in your network. Even something as simple as a restaurant recommendation can be quite different if it's from a friend of yours (or a friend-of-a-friend) than some person who you have no connection to. Feel free to follow up with me - alison@aardvarkteam.com
Noopur
The problem with not giving an archive or database of answers is that when you have questions that are not immediately answered by people in real time, where do you look to? this will also minimize redundancy or show you better/more inclusive/comprehensive ways of asking questions. So, I suggest this option be considered again
Natanael
And "Do you mean 'Pizza in [location that is asked about a lot, as New York]'?" could be an automatic response to people who ask "Where can I get pizza in New York?". Since it has been answered 1'000'000 times, there's no point in sending it to a human if it's similiar enough.
If the question are unique enough, the person who ask could just say 'no', as in "no, my question are unique, or I want a human to answer this time"
Natanael
Here it is:
I want to be able to link questions to eachother. Like "lmk" (let me know), but "redirected". Like "Person X thinks this question, 'question here', is similiar to your question, do you want to link your question to that one?".
And I want to be able to see existing answers to the question I've recieved, so that I can know if there are a good answer there already. Then I don't have to waste time on finding out whatever it is that takes time, I can just spend a mi... more
Here it is:
I want to be able to link questions to eachother. Like "lmk" (let me know), but "redirected". Like "Person X thinks this question, 'question here', is similiar to your question, do you want to link your question to that one?".
And I want to be able to see existing answers to the question I've recieved, so that I can know if there are a good answer there already. Then I don't have to waste time on finding out whatever it is that takes time, I can just spend a minute to verify and add whatever I think is missing.
Natanael
Similiar to http://community.vark.com/pages/18354-general/suggestions/231437-use-a-database-of-past-responses, but not identical. Read my comment on that one, it's the same as the one for this.
Andrew Hedges
This is a good idea. Sometimes someone else may have asked a question in a slightly different way or is just connected to a different network of people.