The central problem here is that most of your so-called “questions”:
- show no research
- present no theories
- and expend no effort.
That situation alone merits a downvote according to the tooltip guidelines regarding downvotes. To see why, hover over the down-arrow on any question and the following descriptive text briefly appears:
This question does not show any research effort
So if you do not show any research effort, people are perfectly apt to downvote you; it even says they should. Also, you should read our Help Center’s text on how to ask a good question, where you would learn that it advises you to:
Tell us what you found and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and above all, it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer!”
You sometimes don’t do those things. When you don’t, it is not a good question for this Community.
That’s probably why all of these were closed:
Is Shakespeare ungrammatical?
Status: Closed as “Primarily Opinion Based”, and now deleted.
“No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it.”
Status: Closed as “Too Broad”.
“For food and diet to some enterprise that hath a stomach in’t”
Status: Closed as “Primarily Opinion Based”.
What wouldst thou beg, Laertes, That shall not be my offer, not thy asking
Status: Closed as “Off Topic: because it is about interpreting a stylised and antiquated literary usage”.
Does not divide the Sunday from the week
Status: Closed as “Off Topic: General Reference”.
Is “Like Niobe, all tears” an apposition?
Status: Closed as “Off Topic: Proofreading”.
Etymology of the meaning of waste as a broad expanse
Status: Closed as “Off Topic: General Reference”.
Use of singular they for specific person
Status: Closed as a duplicate of several other existing questions.
Can “what” be a plural interrogative pronoun?
Status: Closed as “Off Topic: General Reference”.
Can “what” be plural?
Status: Closed as a duplicate of an existing question.
The duplicates got closed because you couldn’t be bothered to search our site for questions similar to your own.
Another problematic type of question of yours is one that says “Is this right?” That is tepid, and it may well be construed as Off Topic Proofreading. Proofreading question come in many guises, and this is one of them. They are unlikely to be of help to future visitors to this site. They do not generate quality answers — which is only to be expected, really, since for the most part, questions of quality generate answers in kind while questions lacking in quality most often generate either no answer at all or else poor ones.
One of the standard moderator messages here contains explanatory text about one sort of off-topic question, such as this one by Andrew Leach:
Proofreading questions can come in many forms: "Help me fix this", "What's wrong with this", "Are there any mistakes", Which is correct", but they all involve reading a specific text and won't really help anyone else.
To that list can be added such questions like “Is this right?”. They have no lasting value because they apply only to a single bit of text alone and will help no one else but the original poster. They are of no lasting value to this site.
You cannot expect demand quality answers of the community when you cannot be bothered to produce a quality question. This overall lack of quality is the central problem in all your many questions of wonderment. They aren’t real questions. Such non-question musing might work somewhere else, like a discussion forum or a social-media site or a chat room.
But these wandering non-questions of wonder seem to have no other purpose than to provoke discussion, and that is something specifically counter to the fundamental question-and-answer nature of the SE network in general and of ELU in particular. I’m talk about the way you again and again and again go tossing off non-questions like this:
I'm wondering about the meaning of "yet" in the sentence above.
All the while pretending it an actual question. However, it is nothing of the sort. We have no idea what you’re asking, what it is you’re wondering. You haven’t done your own legwork, and you’re expecting us to do that work for you. That is not reasonable. At best, such questions merit a closevote on those grounds alone. At worst, they come off as pestiferous trolling, because they seek to provoke discussions not answers.
By now you should have gotten the idea that things that say nothing more than “I wonder what blah means” are apt to be closed. They aren’t proper questions. At the time of this writing, you have four and twenty questions in which you “wonder”. Most of these are not real questions. Many are already closed, and several others are well on their way.
Moreover, in the case of your wondering about “yet”, even if it were a genuine question, it’s nothing but a trivial matter of General Reference. If you had bothered to explain what you were wondering, then maybe it would have been a question, but I doubt it: you would have figured it out yourself.
As one commenter justly wrote here:
Well, I do not believe this website is meant to be a resource for explaining the language of Hamlet. There are probably websites that do that, and I know there are books that have plenty of notes on the play's language
Given that you’re turning out to be something of a help-vampire regarding Shakespeare, you should not be surprised that the Community does not take kindly to that sort of behavior and reacts accordingly.
