Just Asking Questions (JAQing off) is a thing, it’s a form of trolling where people who either already have a POV or aren’t really actually interested in answers engage in discussion, typically in bad faith.

For example if you ask “do you think COVID-19 was engineered…” (given the conspiracy theorism inherent in the topic) and someone replies with an answer (no) to which you think reply “yes but virus can be easily engineered and released” and every response contains some variant of “I’m just asking a question”. You can probably see how it fits a pattern.