Why do so many people follow a new question?

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Very often I find questions that are less than an hour old, yet have over 100 followers. Why do so many people follow it yet no one comments or answers?

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Answer by Fobri · Feb 07, 2018 at 10:20 AM

In profile settings there is a checkbox set to true by default that says something like "automatically follow new questions regarding your interests" or something like that. There's also a checkbox "automatically follow all new questions" but that's off by default. That's really unpractical if you ask me, i turned it off since my email was getting flooded by the messages from this forum. :)

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Answer by vinilly · Apr 03, 2018 at 07:53 AM

Moderators will usually follow questions at first "Automatically" then become less interested after and stop following a question.

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meat5000 ♦ · Apr 03, 2018 at 08:47 AM 0

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Actually moderators are exactly the same as other users except they have earned the REP to gain moderator tools and priviledges. Question Followers are added automatically based on their preferences and users are also added to the list if they comment or answer on the thread. $$anonymous$$oderators will usually follow a User rather than a question, in order to keep an eye on them.

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