According to beta stats for questions per day, we're going down to around half of the require amount (15 per day).
If those stats does not meet the line, sites rarely comes out of beta according to my understanding and also seems there is a lot of sites with several hundred days stick in beta.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/?tab=beta
So, I think we can ask questions even we know the answer?
What do you think?
This is Jeff Atwood's answer at Stack Exchange blog
Yes, I think it's fine, as long as the questions are interesting. I think it's worse to saturate a site with dōdemo ii questions just to get the question count up. That may drive potential new users away faster than a handful of quality questions. If you want to attract new users, try to create interesting questions that people may type into a search engine.
You may even answer your own questions (after some courtesy period) if you wish (see FAQ).
Overall, if the site simply doesn't take off because of a lack of questions and/or interest, so be it. You can't make this site interesting in the long run by answering your own questions. There's also nothing wrong with being in beta. Try to get people you know (or don't know) to use the site. That's the better way to generate more activity.
Yes - If you go back and listen to some of the original podcasts from when Stackoverflow was in development, there was the idea of being able to use the Q&A format as a way of keeping notes on what you have learned. So if you have a question that popped up in the course of your own education that you think others would find useful, you should post it along with the answer. While this might be a bit more practical on the software development side of things, it is part of the overall goal of the exchange.
I wouldn't worry about that number as much yet, since we're almost a third of the way through the initial period. If we can make the downward trend of visits/day level off, then the questions/day should take care of itself. I've already seen a lot of new users this week, here's to hoping they stick around.
If you look at the full site list, Japanese has more questions/day than the newer betas, with the exception of Gardening (which is a week newer and has less visits/day, so that question average will probably decrease in the next week). So the relative performance against sites open for just as long is pretty good. Even the performance against some of the older betas is pretty good.
We've also got a very active user base among the power users we do have. Our meta is pretty active and we're still getting questions with really good answers like this one.
Basically: what everybody says!
Yes, there's nothing wrong with asking a question for which you know the answer. Though questions that are a full treatise on a topic followed by a micro-question on a sub-sub-sub-part of it are probably not OK. So if you ask the question, you have to be OK with the idea that you cannot provide the answer you know.
It's still very early to judge. I personally think that a low rate of questions, with a high answer/question ratio (which we have) is much more preferable than the opposite. At least, we have some margin to improve and we should be able to handle more questions as they come. View count will certainly go up as existing questions start getting good ranking in search engines (although I think SNS referrals are much more promising to get quality contributors). And when view count goes up, so will new questions, eventually...
As @Tsuyoshi points out: at the end of the day, raising the number of questions directly is not our problem. We should do our best to promote the site, encourage new users and foster a welcoming atmosphere that does not discourage new questions. But if despite all that, we cannot get the question count up (which I doubt), then we just shouldn't be out of beta.
Why should we try to raise the number which no user cares? If we do not get out of beta because we do not get enough questions without conscious effort to raise the number, we should not get out of beta.
That said, it is fine to post a good question and its answer by yourself. If you post a question for which you know the answer, please also post the answer (there is a checkbox to answer your own question on the “Ask a Question” page), and do not pretend that you do not know the answer.
Needless to say, posting a bad question just to increase the number is bad, no matter whether you know its answer or not.
I think it's hard to write a good question when you already know the answer. Since you're not invested in getting a good answer, the question comes out sounding perfunctory and nonspecific, and I think people pick up on that and give perfunctory answers. Also, if you already understand a concept, you won't be asking the kind of clarifying questions in comments that turn a good answer into a great one.
If people here are running out of questions to ask, what if we found unanswered questions that other people on the internet have, repost them here with proper attribution, and then link the original poster to our site?
