In the circumstances you describe, about as far as I can throw it.

I wouldn’t trust any of these questions and would therefore answer them in sarcastic tones and light harted insults just to see if they trust my sincerity.

Even though your examples are pretty extreme, and I wouldn’t even give them a shot… there have been several questions that just sort of skirt the edge enough to make me raise an eyebrow. If I think that I can offer something helpful in case it is a genuine question, then I will contribute. I figure there is no shortage of snark around here, so it’s not like the question will go unchecked if it does happen to be a troll.
If I don’t think I can contribute anything useful, I usually don’t say anything at all. Unless I’m in a bad mood, then I might be a smartass.

Cooking puppies is not my field of expertise. I tend not to ponder upon topics I know nothing about, much less whether or not they’re legitimate questions.

Much simpler to stick with what I (think I) know.

The hallways of social websites such as Fluther are chock full of frauds and even knowing the question is 100% made up and/or hypothetical….I will still answer the question to the best of my ability.

Well if I see it’s a new member I don’t give to much advice .. most are scared to ask questions under their true identify so others won’t judge them .. but if older members ask it I might have to take it under consideration because those problems could be their own or just someone else’s trouble…

I do however ask most questions that pop up in ” questions for you ” be it from new or old members… though it’s hard to take a new member serious when they ask a hard question just from the start [ there were a few exceptions though they were rare and after that you started seeing that person paying interest into engaging other topics too ] .

My 2 cents .

Never seen any like that but I would send them back to the scum whole hell they belong in.

yahoo answers

I don’t trust any of you.

Nor I you Bob!
I tend to answer any questions I believe I can, fake or not. If this person genuinely needs help with how to cook a puppy and I happened to have cooked one earlier sure I’d give them tips!

I ignore a lot of those but sometimes I gamble maybe not the OP but someone reading might glean something relevant from my answer and I’ll give my two cents.

For a lot of my life I sugar coated a lot of situations, always giving the benefit of a doubt, always pulling for the underdog, always believing in the exception. Then there came a point when I had enough experiences and observations and years to be able to call some things generalizations but true as far as odds go. I’m not a curmudgeon but I also don’t like to see people spin their wheels unnecessarily.

I tend not to trust any questions like this and I generally don’t answer them.

For me it depends on who asks them.

How to cook a puppy. Lol. And I denno, couldn’t know until I read any details. About how to genuinely answer something that screams trollery, and not the cooking of the puppy.

I run. Especially If the person has 1 lurve and the question is about 5 miles long.

I don’t trust this question.