Most common questions used to investigate
Are people asking this question?
Does this question require expertise?
Is the solution to this problem always the same?
Do you have the expertise for this problem?
Common conclusions
Not a good problem. We want to help people. If no one is asking you won't help anyone.
Not a good problem. If there is no such thing as expertise, then our opinion isn't very valuable, either.
Not a good problem. People can use other tools to loop up simple solutions to simple solutions. Calculators already can answer 1+1=2 and wikipedia knows who Lincoln was, so let's avoid those problems.
Not a good problem for you to work on. Real problems require real expertise. Find the expertise that people want.
You found a great problem. Help people out.
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