"Ask a silly question ...

"Ask a silly question ...

… and you get a silly answer”. You have to ask a sensible question to earn a sensible response. My previous post argued that there is a set of criteria by which we can judge the quality of questions. It may not be immediately obvious to readers of that post that the same set of criteria can be applied to the judgment of answer quality.

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