I’ve been following this Q. I think part of the reason there are very few answers is most of the time there are several different viewpoints on a Q, and people probably tend to look for reinforcement of how they were leaning to begin with, so they go with that advice, even though they might also learn from contradicting points of view. So, they don’t really feel they rejected fluther advice. On rare occassion, there is a string of answers that all say the same thing.
I think @Jeruba wrote the question well. I think @gailcalled did what others did on the Q, wrote in an answer that was related, but not really seeking what @Jeruba specifically asked, she just pointed out she understood it wasn’t answerng the question. But, @gailcalled still wrote it, the question is why did she write the answer? I think we all sometimes write an answer, because we think the OP or collective will find it interesting and informative if it is along the same lines of the Q, even if it is going off on a tangent a little.
I didn’t answer, but I did follow, because I could not think of a specific time when I asked for advice and rejected it. Usually my questions are seeking information and it is just more information added into whatever other research I have done, or I may have spoken to other people out in the real world also. It kind of all blends together for me in my mind. The advice I get on fluther is always helpful to me whether I wound up following it or not. It usually causes me to do more research or think through things in a way I might not have otherwise.