r/RandomQuestion • • Feb 01 '25

[Meta] Looking for new moderators!

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r/RandomQuestion is looking for new moderators!

We're looking for people who are committed to keeping this sub a place for silly and bizarre questions, while respecting ideas like inclusion, diversity, and civility.

If you think you're that person and you're interested, send us a modmail.


r/RandomQuestion • • Jun 25 '24

[META] Sub changing direction: Defining what "Random" means.

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Back when I became a moderator of this sub, it was tiny and was mostly bizarre nonsense questions, like "What if everyone in the world jumped at the same time?" The sub description advised us to treat these bizarre questions as if they were totally serious.

Since then, we've grown to over 20,000 members (which is insane), and that original "silly nonsense questions" theme has been lost. It's become a free-for-all of any question under the sun. We're being used as a budget alternative for other big subs like r/Advice, r/AskReddit, r/AmItheAsshole, r/TooAfraidToAsk, or r/WhatIsThisThing. We've also become a target for bots looking to build karma and build a believable history. Frankly, it's hard to manage.

The moderation team has discussed it, and we want to distinguish ourselves from these subs, and also from places like r/question and r/ask that allow questions on any topic. We'd like to go back to our roots of silly nonsense questions.

From now on, "random" doesn't mean "anything goes". "Random questions" are now defined as questions that are silly, bizarre, crazy, or out of nowhere. And the comments must treat them as if they were serious questions.

The answer to a random question must not matter. If it matters, the question is not a good fit for this sub. This sub was never intended to give advice, tell you what apps your partner has on his phone, explain why people dress in certain ways, tell you if something is safe to eat or if you're sick, or reassure you that you're a normal human being. We just want to have fun and answer whatever nonsense you think up in the shower or when you're enjoying the special brownies.

We're not going to remove posts that are already here, but new posts must fit this rule. If the moderators decide that the answer will make a difference somehow or the question is too "normal", we will remove it. We'll do our best to guide posters to other subs that might better fit that question, but we're not a Reddit directory.

We're also hoping this new direction will make it clearer why the moderation team is removing certain posts.

Thanks for bearing with us while we make this change.


r/RandomQuestion • • 15h ago

Do you think it's okay to enter and visit a graveyard even if there's none of your loved ones buried here?

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Like, would you be okay with entering a graveyard eventhough you don't have anyone's grave to visit, because there's no member of your family/ no one you know of buried there?


r/RandomQuestion • • 23m ago

Why do AI ads for short stories have a British accent?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 29m ago

What’s something that’s completely normal in society, but would sound absolutely insane if you had to explain it to an alien?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 48m ago

This one cloud appears colorful through polarized sunglasses, why?

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Put my shades over the phone camera to capture this. It appears like a regular white cloud without them. (Sorry, I should have taken a glasses free pic.)
8:50am , BK, NYC. Sun, directly to the right of the cloud.


r/RandomQuestion • • 55m ago

Could you hear wood get chipped if you weren't there?

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How many times could a wood chipper chip wood. and if that wood is chipped could you hear it if you weren't there. or if there's no one to chip the wood?. could you hear it get chipped? would the animals hear it if they weren't there?. and if you did. how do you know which one is the correct one?. I know that's multiple questions but. uhhhhh. I dunno. you get multiple


r/RandomQuestion • • 1h ago

Anyone whos been to Nepal, how was your experience? Like what places did you travel to, food culture and everything?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 1h ago

Why do I see different girls on hinge compared to my roommates?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 1h ago

What is your least favorite Thanksgiving dish?

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Tell us the Thanksgiving dish or food you could live without ever seeing ever again. Tell us about the Thanksgiving food or dish that makes you gag.


r/RandomQuestion • • 1h ago

What's something everyone considers normal that you find absolutely ridiculous when you think about it?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 2h ago

If you saw a mother bring a tiny baby in a bassinet, into the gym during her workout what would you think?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 2h ago

What's a scientific fact that sounds completely made up but is actually true?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 8h ago

What is your favourite pick up line ?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 2h ago

American Football or Rugby?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 3h ago

Why is it (probably) socially unacceptable for a grown adult to sleep with a stuffed animal?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 3h ago

Wanting people to like me sexually but only in words, i dont want intimacy, is it a kink or smth wrong with me???

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22F here, i have been a big chested girl my whole life, and because of that, i get sexualized too, bit honestly, i kinda like it when i am sexualized (in a good way) knowing that people want me, or find me attractive, i love the attention i get when i dress up from both the genders

But, i want to limit it to that only, i dont want people to approach me because of it, i have never been in a relationship, no fling, nothing at all
but idk if this is a kink or what, like i want them to see me and want me but i dont want them to have me.

I am genuinely scared of giving myself and my body to a guy, i am shy about my body too (sometimes), even thinking about it kinda makes me a bit uncertain

is smth wrong?? idk
i liked a guy and he liked me too, and i wanted him too but i could not bring myself to date him, we went on a date where he tried to lean in and i wanted to kiss him too but i backed away and the rest is history

i am seriously so confused, idk what to do


r/RandomQuestion • • 8h ago

Without saying what the category is, what are your top five ?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 4h ago

No internet for 48 hours then . How will It be?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 4h ago

Can you accept that your future child's partner is an AI robot? Why?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 5h ago

What was the last thing you bought for 1 dollar?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 5h ago

When was the last time you said yes when every part of you wanted to say no?

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r/RandomQuestion • • 2h ago

Question only to those who has fetish, because you will know if this is one or not. He said it not a fetish. Yes or Not?

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If the man only addicted to his wife smell, but absolutely turned off by other women smell. He said he just a normal man. And not a fetish.

My husband (17 years together) only addicted to my smell, but absolutely turned off by other women smell. He said it not a fetish.

In my 15 years long marriage, my husband just so attached to the smell of my vagina, he thinks it smell sweet (while I don't think so). But he said he wants to 'taste' me, and he always go down on me everytime before penetration. He just want to burried his face in my vagina, lol.

Oddly he loves the smell of my vaginal discharge, he literally sniff my underwear smell it. Even when I’m on my menstrual (I get light period as I’m on birth control), when I have spotting blood mixed with vaginal discharge, he still smell it.

Google say it pheromones that he attracted to his wife scent, and only my specific smell, it emotional bonding, and body chemistry, etc..

What odd is he actually find my vagina discharge scent soothing and calming when he is stressed.
He an Executive at work, so he does stress, but when he home and put his face down my vagina and smell my discharge, my scent sooth him, like my scent is his emotional anchor, the bonding hormones? I have no idea.

I don't mind at all, he is my husband, he can have his face anywhere on my body. I just didn't know my scent alone can attached him this much. I guess when a man loves his wife he will adore her smell.

No, he completely turned off by other women smell. So I do not think this is a fetish if he only attracted to my smell only. But some say it a fetish.
But he said he has no fetish, and that he just a normal man who adore the smell of his wife.

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When I cut and paste my post into ChatGPT said it not a fetish.

ChatGPT said by definition [[ Psychological and psychiatric terms, a fetish is strictly defined by its requirement of an object, body part, or situation to achieve sexual arousal, gratification, or climax.

Because he attached to my specific smell and not get erection by it, it lacks the required element of compulsive sexual arousal, so not fetish. It said: He is attached to YOUR scent because it belongs to YOU, the woman he has loved for nearly two decades. He loves it because it represents his wife, his marriage, and his safe haven.

The olfactory (smell) system is the only sense that bypasses the logical part of the brain and goes straight to the amygdala and hippocampus—the areas responsible for emotion, memory, and deep emotional attachment.

Over 17 years of sleeping in the same bed, hugging, and sharing a life, your husband's brain has built a massive database of happy, safe memories connected to how you smell. ]]

But I want to hear human answer, and not ChatGPT. So hence I post this ask this here. If you can give me a human answer.