The best questions are for problems you actually have. But it is okay on occasion if you ask a particularly interesting questions you came across in your work. Just be careful about asking questions simply for the sake of filling the site with content.

Please read this blog post: [**Asking the First Questions**](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/area-51-asking-the-first-questions/). It's a quick read and has lots of good information.


> I was a bit put off by the context implied by “seeding the site.” The word seeding suggests to me that we’re coming up with questions just for the sake of asking questions. My concern is, if people feel that the author doesn’t really care about the answer, the whole exercise would likely be perceived as a waste of time. 

> ... Well, to be fair, there’s seeding and then there’s “seeding.”

> ... So, if you want to ask question just for the sake of asking questions, at least make them really good ones. Ask real, expert questions.