To see if Aardvark intentionally ignores “experts” in your close social circle (assuming you’ve already asked them directly), Ben and I ran a little experiment:
Ben: Does anyone know if/where/how ☃ is used?
aardvark: Wait — I need a little help: What’s a good category for your question?
(Please type any word or phrase, or type ‘cancel’.)
Ben: ☃
aardvark: Got it. I’m sending your question to someone who knows about ☃.
Now, you may think that Aardvark would contact me, since I have ☃ in my Aardvark interests (it scraped it from Facebook), but no! Ben received this response:
Sometimes people use ☃ when they’re posting updates to twitter about snowmen.
And later, the anti-answer:
what is that? Is it a special ASCII character?
I have no idea how this person got selected to respond. This reply precipitated the following conversation:
Ben: train
aardvark: Was Charlie’s answer helpful? 1) Yes 2) Kind of, but not for me 3) No (Please type a number, or type ‘cancel’.)
Ben: 3
aardvark: Thanks for the feedback. I won’t send any more of your ☃ questions to Charlie.
Playing around with Aardvark more, however, I’ve concluded that it does not avoid experts close to you. Must have just not trusted me as a snowman expert.
