Comments on: PC World celebrates Yahoo! Answers

By: passion♥

passion♥ — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:40:59 +0000

i’m happy for you guys
yahoo has it pros and cons as do most things in life

By: Melvin

Melvin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:19:42 +0000

Speaking of good answers and helpful people, I wonder if Top Contributors in Family & Relations are considered OK instead of those junk ones in Computer & Internet section?

People consider those to require no knowledge but I disagree. You need to understand human nature and relationship and then apply those as best you can to people’s problems. That’s not easy; takes time and requires a lot of thinking.

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:43:30 +0000

As much as I love YA I definitely liked it better when it wasn’t getting all these awards and acknowledgments. The spam is becoming ridiculous. It is now impossible to go into certain sections without finding a link to some pregnancy or dating site, something seriously needs to be done about it, reporting isn’t working, they just come back under a different name.

By: Aunt Susan

Aunt Susan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:23:24 +0000

I truly enjoyed Yahoo Answers up to about a year ago, when I began to notice that the volume of inane answers began to flood the web site. This activity of Helter Skelter greatly reduced my desire to participate.
I can only hope that the reason is because the financial meltdown of the world governments is the fear- based reason for the catastrophic drop of the Web Zipper’s IQ. I still check in everyday, as Yahoo Answers is a splendid idea; in a slump.

By: Usman

Usman — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:08:55 +0000

Congrats!!!
Peace

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:21:24 +0000

That’s nice.

By: Raffi

Raffi — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:38:33 +0000

Cheers for yahoo answers, I think its the best way to search for stuff here, its a good time waster, but fun

; )

By: amblinal

amblinal — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:34:41 +0000

Those of us that care enough to give thoughtful, genuine answers and become top contributors are aware of the trolls and young, arrogant punks that inhabit the site. We recognize them in very short order and also watch them come and go. The simplest way to deal with them is to simply ignore them. Once they find they cannot attract nor monopolize your attention, they go away to greener pastures. I find that using the thumbs serves a very good way to remove them from sight as you work in the site. Using the blocking feature keeps you from wasting your time on their inane and sometimes asinine questions. It also keeps you from dealing with them in the answers area. I applaud Y!A on all their efforts to control a very chaotic and undisciplined site. It is the nature of public forms to be a bit “rough and ready”, but they do a good job in keeping it down to a low rumble.

By: Pat Harris

Pat Harris — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:48:34 +0000

I just recently discovered Yahoo Ansers and I love it. albeit some of the questions as well as responses are non sense, but I am one of the serious bloggers who genuinely want to help. Everytime I get chosen as best answer you would have thought I had hit the lottery!

No I don’t think YH should be used as a political platform, or as a device to belittle or hurt people.
This should be just plain fun and information sharing with a lot of caring. Keep up the good work YH. I’m Staying!!!

By: A. N.

A. N. — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:26:40 +0000

Whoever said there is no such thing as a stupid question need to look at the Computer & Internet section. Almost all the questions there can be found in under 10 seconds from Google or even Yahoo search. It’s more effort here! Most of the question are pointless and repeats. Some questions are like a phone text message and even those don’t make sense. The rest of it is MySpace/Facebook junk. There is also 2 “Top Contributor” who gives bad advice most of the time. One of them said they will give thumbs down to plain wrong answers when I seen him give about 3 of those.