What makes a question worth following
Tell a question worth your attention from one that only sounds like it.
From the record
YES if, before the deadline, a federally regulated prediction-market exchange is legally authorized to offer contracts on professional sporting events under applicable federal law. NO otherwise. Mere proposals, applications, or pending litigation do not qualify.
Read the question, then read what settles it. Notice that you could argue about the answer but not about what the answer would mean.
What to take from it
A question is worth following when a thoughtful person could hold either view today, and neither of them could argue about what would settle it. Those two conditions pull against each other, which is why most questions fail one of them. A question everybody answers the same way is not uncertain. A question nobody can settle is not a question; it is a mood.
The test is not whether the subject is important. Plenty of important subjects cannot be asked about honestly — because no public source will ever say, because the wording would decide the answer, or because the answer would arrive too late to have been worth waiting for. Importance is what makes a question worth asking. Decidability is what makes it worth following.
When you read a question here, look first at what settles it, and only then at the question. If the settlement rule makes you feel the answer was decided in advance, it was — and the question is not worth your judgment, however much the subject deserves your attention.
Go and read the question this opened with in full. A lesson you have not tested against a real record is a lesson you have only agreed with.