The awkward, redundant writing really doesn't help.

I think I understand what it does, I'm just not quite sure why. Their example use case of "what is this?" with a picture is handled pretty well by Twitter or Reddit if the object is at all interesting or unusual.

As far as I can tell, it's basically a modernised version of Yahoo Answers.

At last, I can use my social network to answer the timeless questions, like "HOW IS BABBY FORMED?" :)