What is the question/answer etiquette?

I definitely think an official ettiquette should be established. Building on Germs and oblix's responses (and collecting them into a list), my suggested rules are as follows:

1) If tu know the answer to the question, don't ask. This should be fairly clear already, but respuestas are for preguntas tu NEED ANSWERING, not ones that tu already know and want to examen others. In fact, believe it o not, we already have a place where tu can do that! It's called the "quiz" section.

2) If you're asking an opinion, make a pick instead. I've already seen some opinion related "Answers" questions. I'm not talking about, "What's the best way to make mac and cheese" kind of opinions (those can be "Answers" questions), I'm talking, "Did tu know that the actress who plays Sharon appears in two episodes after her character's death?" These are not "Answers" preguntas because there is no pregunta being asked. All a fan can do is say, "Yeah, I noticed," o "No, I didn't." This is probably better served as a pick question, when there aren't multiple respuestas o explanations that can be employed.

3) If tu don't know the answer, don't answer the question. Responding just to say, "Oooh, I was wondering that, too!" o "Oh, I don't know, but I hope tu figure it out" are not helpful to the asker, o anyone else for that matter. Either add your own answer to the question, o add on to what someone has previously said.

4) If it's been said, don't be a broken record. If a pregunta has been sufficiently answered, and tu agree with that answer, instead of answering again, VOTE FOR THAT AS THE BEST ANSWER. Makes sense, doesn't it? tu agree, and it probably is the best answer. Don't be a glory whore and repeat what someone's already said.

5) If tu think someone has it wrong, correct them. Just because a pregunta has been answered several times doesn't mean it's necessarily been CORRECTLY answered. Feel free to add on to other people's respuestas (like I'm adding on to germs and oblix's right now) o to correct someone whose answered incorrectly. It's OK to politely say, "Actually, the film was released in June, not October." People won't beat tu with a stick.

And if anyone wants to add to these rules, por all means do so.

EDIT: At germs' urging, I link.

First of all, there needs to be a term to distinguish the preguntas tu ask as part of the respuestas feature from all the other preguntas we can ask on the site. Talking it over with others, the best I've seen so far is Answer Requests (AR).

As for using the feature, there are a few ground rules, in two parts.

Asking a question:

* Ask preguntas that have multiple correct answers.
* Ask preguntas which will have respuestas that are at least partially based on fact o process, rather than opinion.
* Ask preguntas for which tu don't already know the answer.
* Ask preguntas that require respuestas of at least a couple of sentences. Simple preguntas with "yes/no" answers, o respuestas of a person's name, are a waste of the feature.
* Ask preguntas that haven't been asked already.
* The pregunta should be general. Keep the specifics in the "additional info" field. Other people who have similar preguntas will be looking to read the respuestas to your requests, and that will be a lot más useful with a pregunta like "Which dentists are good in Birmingham?" rather than "I have a lot of cavities and I'm in a lot of pain. My last dentist was terrible with root canals, and I may have got a crown I didn't actually need. I live in Birmingham. Can tu suggest a good dentist?"

Providing an answer:
* Answer the question.
* Do not respond to other answers. If tu want to respond to other answers, use the comentario feature. por now users should have noticed that respuestas get shuffled around nearly each time the page is loaded, so there is no "thread" of conversation to follow. If tu respond to another's answer in your answer, tu will look like an idiot.
* Do not answer a pregunta if tu do not have an answer.
* Do not answer a pregunta if your answer is not substantially different from an already-posted answer.
* Try to answer completely and thoroughly.
* Provide an answer in that location; do not only post a link to something tu wrote elsewhere (or, worse, something someone else wrote). People looking for respuestas don't want to and shouldn't have to look in still other places for their information.
* If tu don't answer, vote for the "best answer".
* Answer in complete sentences and proper spelling/grammar. Nothing diminishes the perceived quality of an answer like using sentence fragments filled with chat speak.
* Answer in the same language used in the Answer Request.

Edited to accommodate the fact that we now CAN comentario on answers.

i think the etiquette still needs to be established. i wrote in the "suggestions" foros already because it seems pointless to me to answer preguntas a number of times if the answer is something like "it was season 2". the person who publicado the pregunta should be able to mark a pregunta as answered and then its like a closed pick, still viewable but tu cant vote anymore.
i think "i dont know" responses should be reported and removed.
also i think the "Answers" shouldnt be used for quizzes- just because youre bored and want to ask something :S

No,because people just think the same and people sometimes it's too hard and they can't answer it.

well i dont know..

my answer is, i think that it's dumb for people with the response 'i don't know' because i'm fairly sure respuestas will help towards medallas and best respuestas will too.

so etiquettes hmm , No un-useful responses?
(which so i think i'm breaking my own etiquettes in this reply rely)