As for organisation. Since both etarc and discord can do a poll, i say we do a poll on each for the ten most interesting questions, then take the top five from each of those polls (that dont overlap) as our final ten.
I elect this be done by a mature adult so @sheralmyst or @ThatBomberBoi or @vector_cmdr
Along with that, was there ever a point when you thought, this was a mistake. They’ll never get this right! 
I would go as far as to suggest we reach out to the other prominent figures in the community, too, such as Syn at the Galactic Hub and Oskar1up, possibly some others I’m unaware of as well. The memory blocs have previously shown us that Architect wants to see people of all corners of the fanbase, and I think this Q&A thing would be a good opportunity to get varying opinions and perspectives.
Also, hi Todd!
Project Skyscraper seems to be strongly influenced by the game No Mans Sky and closely related subjects, what is it that you hope for System to learn by processing Operators’ memories of No Mans Sky?
Another: Who is System really?
What goal do you and Ghost have in reactivating the System?
also What is the relationship between the Tower, the System and the Atlas?
lol I’m ashamed to admit I thought Archie and @vector_cmdr was the same for a solid minute. Speaks volumes for the ability of vector for sure.
I’m still curious about that instantaneous Reddit ban …
We dont know that they arent 
Or maybe its you? Or me? It could be any or all of us.
This is an incredible revelation for the ARG and requires some serious thought 
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Do we think they will allow recursive questions such as, “What is the single most valuable question I could ask you next, and what is the answer to it?” 
Over at NMSCord we’ve been workshopping ways to approach these questions, not necessarily the questions themselves yet, and a server admin (Literally George Orwell…no, i mean that’s her name) put this suggestion forward. With her blessing I’ve sent it your guys’ way.
“I was thinking, as you guys try to narrow down or prioritize the group’s questions, maybe separate the purpose behind the question into categories. Like is the question purely curiosity? Vs is the question helping the group solve x part of a puzzle? I assume there may be other categories you can think of.”
I think this could be a good framework. If we do (or don’t) ask any puzzle related questions, having a consistent “order of operations” could be quite useful for organization’s sake.
I can’t help but look at this with a slight tilt towards the social engineering aspect, as an Operator.
I think we should be looking to extract our own opinion on if The Architect is trustworthy and to what degree, similarly to the way they want to ensure that we are.
We currently don’t know much about their intentions, or capacity for subversion.
Perhaps common tools like the “Reverse Chronology” test should be used for a question to enable us to divine their skills for subversion?
We would ask them something like:
“Can you please tell me the story of your complete involvement with Project Skyscraper backward, starting from the current end (now) and moving to the beginning?”
While we would lose the benefit of real time analysis of the response being constructed, we can still seek holes, misaligned details, contradictions and hesitant wording.
Edit so as to not multi-post:
I think one of the key features we need to build into the questions is a targeted, rich, full output for an answer with very little wriggle room to get a generic or undesired response.
Asking: “Who are you?”, “Are you Arnaud?”, or something similarly straight forward has too much risk to net us a response like “I am me.”, “I am The Architect.”, “No.”, etc. - especially if they seem likely to be unfolded in the narrative at some point soon. The value to us is minimal.
The answers should be as diagnostic and unavoidable as possible. We don’t want a “Head of the Kwik-E-Mart” situation.
I don’t have any specific questions yet except perhaps “What is, or will be, the purpose of the unique identifiers on the back of the physical Atlas Passes sent out to Citizen Scientists?” Which is, maybe, not even one of the top-10 best questions we can ask, so just consider it an initial suggestion from my end.
But I did want to chime in to say I definitely am supportive of this approach that @vector_cmdr is suggesting.
This is how you get answers like 42
Cutting edge journalism.
Hey Y’all! Just dropping in a few discussion points thrown out over on NMScord over the last few hours just to get everyone on the same page.
Many Operators believe that community outreach is important here, but we also have a tight deadline and a limit of 10 questions. NMScord discussions believe this is the best way to deal with the issue:
The NMScord will be creating / using a new forum for the discussion and vetting of individual questions. I think we can do something similar on ETARC, with users setting up question threads prefixed with Q&A, with a short deadline for deliberation. At the end, we can hold an internal poll collecting all such questions, to form our selected set of questions to throw into the final voting pool.
Absolutely. We saw Architecte as a character in the ARG, sort of System Administrator, so can we consider him as the puppet master too ? Will we submit 10 questions to the ARG main character or to the ARG creator ? It should be to the character I think.
(We were typing the same question at the same time it seems!)
Since the Architect speaks in character in the quoted conversation, I assume he will answer in character as well?
I also would like to chat with a PM about things like, which responses by players frustrated you or made you laugh, what did players miss, “the numbers, what do they mean??” 
etc. But he can’t well answer these in character.
So should we preferably ask as operators (e.g. what are your and ghost’s goals, who or what is system, I dunno) or are we asking meta questions about ARG design?
Also did he choose the date to coincide with the fanzine schedule (planned by the fanzine maker), or is that a date the Architect chose according to his or the ARG’s schedule?
The messages are all from the character. Perhaps a single meta question might be interesting, but any more would be a waste.
I think I agree that we should be addressing the architect as a character for now. I feel like a Q/A with the actual puppetmasters would be a lot less restrictive than this one is.