For example, when Facebook first launched and re-launched Questions in 2010 and 2011, it flooded the news feed with queries and their answers.
Instead, around the time when the ethics of torture abroad began to launch questions about the contradictory values of the country at large, films like Saw and Hostel tested our levels of mass desensitization.
And most recently, it launched the Question sticker so you can query friends through your Story and then share their answers there too.
SoundCloud, the audio platform not unlike Cinch or Audioboo, has launched Takes Questions, a new product in beta that lets anyone pose questions and others leave answers in audio, from a customisable webpage.
When the Games Maker programme was launched, some questioned whether there would be enough applicants.
They were joined by a German-language translator, and while Dornstein launched into questions about Eter's life and legal status, Eter ate silently, drinking red wine and watching Dornstein with a wary eye.
A few days after Instagram Direct launched I questioned whether it was doomed.
When HotelTonight first launched, many questioned just how big of an industry same-day hotel bookings could become.
As such, it's not to be compared to 'next-generation' Q&A services that tap your social graph rather than the entire Web community as a whole, such as Quora, Aardvark and the recently launched Facebook Questions.
MerchantCircle has also added features to make the site attractive with consumers, launching a question feature that allows consumers to enter a question to merchants about any topic on the platform.
