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| − | '''Yahoo! Answers''' is an "answer site" where people ask and answer questions. | + | '''Yahoo! Answers''' is an "answer site" where people ask and answer questions. The doubts of its members can vary from "[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmnZhkHwqXbluPayH71L3SMO53NG;_ylv=3?qid=20091208145714AAg9IzS I have ate two whole tangerines in about two hours what will happen to me?]" to "[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Assb8DAQtYqNbCqYpTSOE4Ry7hR.;_ylv=3?qid=20090617032927AAHgaLk Is there any possible way of making 2+2=5?]". |
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Yahoo! Answers is an "answer site" where people ask and answer questions. The doubts of its members can vary from "I have ate two whole tangerines in about two hours what will happen to me?" to "Is there any possible way of making 2+2=5?".
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[edit] Da rulez
One signs up in Yahoo! to be a member, and starts with 100 points. Asking a question costs 5 points. Answering a question gives a member 2. If the asker designates one answer to be the best, the latter gets 10 extra points. Questions are open for only a week. If a question is reported by some other anonymous member, it’s likely removed and the asker loses 20 points. (There is a process to appeal a removal, but appeals are rarely granted.) If a member loses removals or lose all his/her/its points, his/her/its account is suspended.
According to CG (Community Guidelines)[1] and TOS (Terms of Service),[2] one is barred from creating new accounts, but many still do.
[edit] The good, the bad, and the fugly
While there are a lot of trolls and right-wing hacks there, there are also some good folk there. Among them are "justgoodfolk", who proves that one can be a rule-abiding Trotskyite and still flourish there; "Blessed Cheesemaker (cancelled)", a former evangelical Christian who asks lots of loaded questions based on lesser known Biblical passages; and "Morteza", a cool Iranian (ex-pat?) who has his own forum that includes a section for Y!A. Even Barack Obama had an account in Y!A. Wikinfo’s creator Fred Balder also has a Y!A account and often answers questions in the Wikipedia category.
As time goes on though the site has become increasingly filled with wingnut propaganda and users who usually get the most upvotes, though how many of these upvotes are caused by one user with multiple accounts is unknown. Then there are those who are crowned "Best Answer" with only one vote. In terms of how right wing the users tend to be they're usually somewhere in between Fox News and Free Republic, with constant ranting being directed towards liberals,[3] Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and on occasion minority groups. The UK version isn't a lot better.[4] However, as the Tea Party movement has begun to lose momentum the site has become slightly more balanced. Of course though, there are informative answers and users to always balance the hilariously uninformed wingnuts; for example, this question on life in Somalia before its Civil War has quite a nice answer as the best answer.