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I really shouldn’t snicker. But the link below is to what has to be the stupidest question I’ve ever seen posted on Yahoo! Answers. And considering I’ve answered over 6,500 questions, that’s saying something.

Prepare yourself; think “dead puppies” or “naked grandmother” before clicking this link, or you may well burst an aneurysm laughing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080731201724AAhwdIy

I’d blame that question and its ensuing hilarity on the questioner being a n00b to the Internet. Except (s)he was asking questions on Answers 8 months ago. And those questions were, by and large, also stupid.

In fact, now that I review them, this older question is actually the most hilariously dumb question I’ve ever seen posed on Answers. It’s only blind luck that allied intervention in the Russian Civil War supplies a narrowly plausible source of confusion.

It’s generally not right for anybody other than Judge Judy to humiliate imbeciles. But it’s been a really bad night on Answers in terms of quality of questions — solicitations, inanities and general foolishness*  are rampant — and the question above was just too rich to not share.

* Fucking hilarious. This guy can call his “new tecnique” (sic) ASAP or ABCD or LMNOP or anything else he wants, but combining DOM scripting and XMLHTTPRequests to increase the performance of Web applications is rightfully called “AJAX“; that methodology was first described in 2005; and the Web development community has been using the methodology since it was first described.

AJAX has been used (stupidly) for site navigation since well before this guy thought of it; and it has been used (stupidly) to obfuscate site content for just as long. Hell, I’ve discussed variations on these simple concepts here, here and here.

Then there’s the fact that since DOM scripting has existed, no major Web browser has displayed, via its “view page source” command, changes made to the base document via JavaScript.

Seriously, if he’s going to violate the Answers Community Guidelines by posting non-questions, he should at least be funny, not pathetic. At Level 5, he should be smarter than to post such nonsense.