Do you agree with this math? 279AM questions - 180 PET questions = 99 other questions.

I'm working on it. Hell...this stupid question got 16 replies.

Yus. Presented some numbers as a reply for someone doubting in your maths.

Lmfao

None within the last 180 questions (almost three days). But don't you worry, we will have another round soon. He never failed getting back again at EP. ;-)

How does 5500 sound?

They are the less active ones. Way less than average although they take up almost 36% of the space for a little less than three days. Need any statistics m2c, or do you want to keep it with what you believe being the truth?

A few quick ones for you:

Shares:
35,56% of posted questions in the main room (64 out of 180)
12,75% of views (1,764 out of 13,835)
18,44% of replies (229 out of 1,242)

Ranked:
3rd with 1,764 views in total/64 posts (1st is 'answerMug' with 2,526 views/14 posts)
19th with 27.7 views in average per question posted (1st is 'answerMug' with 180.4 in average)
1st with 229 replies in total/64 posts (2nd is 'answerMug' with 183 replies/14 posts)
17th with 3.6 replies in average per question posted (1st is 'answerMug member' with 21.0 in average on 3 posts, 2nd is 'answerMug' with 13.1 in average on 14 posts)

Overall averages (180 posts in total):
76.9 views per question posted
6.9 replies per question posted



I think the math presented inside this question is very much showing a correct picture!

If the political questions are the less active then why are you complaining? They should quickly disappear down the home page.

Smh. Is this for real?

18 out of the 64 questions got not one single reply, hasn't slowed the questions down. The one with highest number of views out of these 18 got 6 views including mine today. Do you read what people have written inside the question I posted yesterday, inside here, inside other questions? Do you care what happens to the site? Do you mind people are leaving again after some days here? Do you even care?

They take up the visual space inside the main room, drowning the other questions, and people give up posting other questions. It makes no impression on you? Out of whatever reasons, it seems you apparently don't want to read the statistics, and not interpret what can be read out of them. It's like...

Never mind... This kind of no-discussion is not bringing us anywhere and it certainly isn't inviting to any kind of dialogue. Bye.

Again if it is bothering some users that much then start asking and replying to questions on other topics and the main page will change.
Not sure how the main page is being overrun by political questions but somehow the political questions are the least active.  The ones that are unanswered will be pushed down the page quickly. 
It is not hard to ignore the main page. I do it alot when people are making their borderline TOS comments about body parts, etc. (Do you think those don't drive some people away as well?)

You simply don't understand the issue. I'm giving up. Bye.

Your right, I don't get it. We all have the right to ask/answer any thing we want provided it is within the TOS. And we all have the ability to filter our feed.

I'm not talking about any feed. I can filter it all day if I want but I can't find any questions on the main question board unless I trawl all categories through one by one. I cannot eliminate the political questions from drowning all the other questions. It will also be what a lot of other members have said.

I am no way telling what can be posted and what not, I merely ask if we should consider using the debate room for the political questions to have our main board live up with a variety of questions making it less one-dimensional and not appealing to the larger part of the users here. The questions should, to my knowledge still show up in the feeds (unless we filter them) if they are asked inside the debate room (=makes no difference for the political active users, but a lot for the other users). I don't know any better way explaining it. Sorry.

OK on the question page there is not any way to filter it. 
I personally would love to be able to sort them by:
Recently Asked
Most Recent Answered (I know same a home feed but would not have the duplicates)
Unanswered
Most answered
Most viewed

But that is not possible right now. 

Exactly.

Personally I rarely use the Question page. I use the home feed and will click on a random user and see if there is  anything interesting.

Well, some users do make use of the question page. It is by far the quickest way seeing what has happened if been away for some time.

I would use it more if it were sortable as well. 

I think there is an oblique issue here which is very politely not being openly stated.
At a certain time of day, a certain person comes online and asks an average of around 24 questions, each of which is usually a variant on one major theme. Usually the topic relates to the latest headlines in American national news broadcasts, but sometimes they arise from articles in magazines. 
The questions have a recognisable style of language unique to the author.
The questioner is intensely interested in societal changes, the environment and current affairs, is worried by the recent turn right in politics, and extremely distressed by Trump and the recent increases of racism and race riots.
In my experience, when I answer the questions, I usually get a polite, friendly reply. Sometimes a conversational thread starts, which might have a positive emotional tone, or in a few instances might include exchanges of respectful disagreement.
I notice that the content of the questions and answers are forgotten almost immediately and the same or similar questions soon reappear.
The emotional tone of the questions does not change. It sounds upset and distressed. No answer I have tried has helped.
The questions are so prolific that it takes a lot of scrolling down the pages to find a question one might prefer to answer.

JA offered us a vote, sometime back, in the form of a poll, to see if there should be a limit to the number of questions one person can ask per day. The answers to the poll indicated to leave the status quo as it is.

One possible solution might be that if we collectively post more of our own questions, especially at the time when the political ones are flooding the board.
That way we could dilute them and offer one another more choices.

You have too much time on your hands.