Fun With Yahoo! Answers
There is this thing called Yahoo! answers. Let’s forget for a moment that Bill Gates is about to steal Yahoo! away from themselves and make it into Microsoft>Google. Yahoo! Answers is anything but that. Well…I suppose there are answers, but it is more like a forum for people to talk serious shit to each other.
You will get the typical responses from every bonehead that thinks he is an expert about everything on there. You could ask about beer pong tables and get answers about how you shouldn’t be drinking that much. You could even ask about the word “skeet” and have everyone just treply with “skeet skeet skeet” because they are white and have seen Chapelle’s Show. If you are a big fan of Mudkips, well this is a great place to talk about it. Yahoo! Answers surely has your source for all the latest Mudkip news.
Let’s take a look at some of the great questions that have been answered today:
What is 4Chan?
Girls plz answer my question???urgent help needed?
How can I make 4Chan safer for my kids?
Fellow Atheists: Do you ever think about crawling back to God so you can go to the church ice cream socials?
Those are just a few of the silly questions and answers you will get over there. All you need is a Yahoo! ID and you are free to spew as much ignorance as you feel is necessary. Great for wasting your employer’s money by doing this at work. Also a great way to build a discussion on any forum to get even more idiots involved in your antics.
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Hmm I’m nervous about how you haven’t mentioned any of the negative things about Yahoo Answers. While they do serve as a great model for Q&A sites (and the largest, so they must be doing something right), there are some downsides. One being the pointless points system they implement…not to mention the constant censorship of potentially controversial content.
haha…I didn’t realize I promoted it that well. That post is pretty much dripping with sarcasm.
The points system is quite pointless, but you know as well as I do that people love to be ranked.
For a lot of the people that go on there it is as much of a joke as it is a serious question/answer system. I would guess they have some sort of censorship that many can’t agree with, but they really aren’t marketing it as a way to talk about the most controversial things on the net. It is marketed to the masses as serious answers.
The whole system is pointless. It’s hard getting a decent answer and even if you do there’s no way of knowing where the information is coming from.
Yeah I’ve always had a hard time getting answers using this. Seems like no one ever responds.