I have been to other Q&A websites. Some do not have any specific guidelines for asking questions. Some – like Fluther – do have some guidelines. On Askville you can ask pretty much any question you want. Askville doesn’t discourage people from asking any questions they want. But in Fluther they have specific guidelines. They have a section in their guidelines for “Asking Great Questions”. There is nothing like that on Askville.
I have seen a lot of questions on Askville that the answer can be obtained by a simple Google search. In fact a lot of times reminding the asker of the fact that your question is “Googleable” (if it is in form of an answer) is subject to punishment by the community, but here in Fluther those sort of questions are discouraged! Of course over there in Askville a lot of people remind others that the answer to those questions can be obtained by a simple Googling but they keep to discussions for that purpose.