diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerPreviewController.php b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerPreviewController.php
index 3b46580444..68f400dd0e 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerPreviewController.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerPreviewController.php
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@ final class PonderAnswerPreviewController
   extends PonderController {
 
   public function processRequest() {
-
     $request = $this->getRequest();
-    $user = $request->getUser();
+    $viewer = $request->getUser();
     $question_id = $request->getInt('question_id');
 
-    $question = PonderQuestionQuery::loadSingle($user, $question_id);
+    $question = id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
+      ->setViewer($viewer)
+      ->withIDs(array($question_id))
+      ->executeOne();
     if (!$question) {
       return new Aphront404Response();
     }
 
-    $author_phid = $user->getPHID();
+    $author_phid = $viewer->getPHID();
     $object_phids = array($author_phid);
     $handles = $this->loadViewerHandles($object_phids);
 
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ final class PonderAnswerPreviewController
       ->setQuestion($question)
       ->setTarget($answer)
       ->setPreview(true)
-      ->setUser($user)
+      ->setUser($viewer)
       ->setHandles($handles)
       ->setAction(PonderLiterals::LITERAL_ANSWERED);
 
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerSaveController.php b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerSaveController.php
index ce137b7628..97cadbe3cb 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerSaveController.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderAnswerSaveController.php
@@ -4,29 +4,31 @@ final class PonderAnswerSaveController extends PonderController {
 
   public function processRequest() {
     $request = $this->getRequest();
+    $viewer = $request->getUser();
+
     if (!$request->isFormPost()) {
       return new Aphront400Response();
     }
 
-    $user = $request->getUser();
     $question_id = $request->getInt('question_id');
-    $question = PonderQuestionQuery::loadSingle($user, $question_id);
-
+    $question = id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
+      ->setViewer($viewer)
+      ->withIDs(array($question_id))
+      ->executeOne();
     if (!$question) {
       return new Aphront404Response();
     }
 
     $answer = $request->getStr('answer');
 
-    // Only want answers with some non whitespace content
     if (!strlen(trim($answer))) {
-      $dialog = new AphrontDialogView();
-      $dialog->setUser($request->getUser());
-      $dialog->setTitle(pht('Empty Answer'));
-      $dialog->appendChild(
-        phutil_tag('p', array(), pht(
-        'Your answer must not be empty.')));
-      $dialog->addCancelButton('/Q'.$question_id);
+      $dialog = id(new AphrontDialogView())
+        ->setUser($viewer)
+        ->setTitle(pht('Empty Answer'))
+        ->appendChild(
+          phutil_tag('p', array(), pht(
+          'Your answer must not be empty.')))
+        ->addCancelButton('/Q'.$question_id);
 
       return id(new AphrontDialogResponse())->setDialog($dialog);
     }
@@ -40,13 +42,13 @@ final class PonderAnswerSaveController extends PonderController {
     $res = new PonderAnswer();
     $res
       ->setContent($answer)
-      ->setAuthorPHID($user->getPHID())
+      ->setAuthorPHID($viewer->getPHID())
       ->setVoteCount(0)
       ->setQuestionID($question_id)
       ->setContentSource($content_source);
 
     id(new PonderAnswerEditor())
-      ->setActor($user)
+      ->setActor($viewer)
       ->setQuestion($question)
       ->setAnswer($res)
       ->saveAnswer();
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderCommentSaveController.php b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderCommentSaveController.php
index 45c2539101..a3af847977 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderCommentSaveController.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderCommentSaveController.php
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ final class PonderCommentSaveController extends PonderController {
 
     $user = $request->getUser();
     $question_id = $request->getInt('question_id');
-    $question = PonderQuestionQuery::loadSingle($user, $question_id);
-
+    $question = id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
+      ->setViewer($user)
+      ->withIDs(array($question_id))
+      ->executeOne();
     if (!$question) {
       return new Aphront404Response();
     }
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderQuestionViewController.php b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderQuestionViewController.php
index 089dafc5de..f230db1818 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderQuestionViewController.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderQuestionViewController.php
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ final class PonderQuestionViewController extends PonderController {
     $request = $this->getRequest();
     $user = $request->getUser();
 
-    $question = PonderQuestionQuery::loadSingle($user, $this->questionID);
+    $question = id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
+      ->setViewer($user)
+      ->withIDs(array($this->questionID))
+      ->executeOne();
     if (!$question) {
       return new Aphront404Response();
     }
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderVoteSaveController.php b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderVoteSaveController.php
index d4169f9f4b..2d1e39d9dd 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderVoteSaveController.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/controller/PonderVoteSaveController.php
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ final class PonderVoteSaveController extends PonderController {
     $target = null;
 
     if ($this->kind == "question") {
-      $target = PonderQuestionQuery::loadSingleByPHID($user, $phid);
+      $target = id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
+        ->setViewer($user)
+        ->withPHIDs(array($phid))
+        ->executeOne();
     } else if ($this->kind == "answer") {
       $target = id(new PonderAnswerQuery())
         ->setViewer($user)
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
index 1fd093821c..ce671fa9f6 100644
--- a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
@@ -47,28 +47,6 @@ final class PonderQuestionQuery
     return $this;
   }
 
-  public static function loadSingle($viewer, $id) {
-    if (!$viewer) {
-      throw new Exception("Must set viewer when calling loadSingle");
-    }
-
-    return idx(id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
-      ->setViewer($viewer)
-      ->withIDs(array($id))
-      ->execute(), $id);
-  }
-
-  public static function loadSingleByPHID($viewer, $phid) {
-    if (!$viewer) {
-      throw new Exception("Must set viewer when calling loadSingle");
-    }
-
-    return array_shift(id(new PonderQuestionQuery())
-      ->withPHIDs(array($phid))
-      ->setViewer($viewer)
-      ->execute());
-  }
-
   private function buildWhereClause(AphrontDatabaseConnection $conn_r) {
     $where = array();