The site has been criticized as being more about social networking than providing accurate information.[11] Researchers found that questions seeking factual information received few answers and that the knowledge on Yahoo! Answers is not very deep.[5]
A 2008 study found Yahoo! Answers is suboptimal for questions requiring factual answers and that the quality decreases as the number of users increases.[12]
Straight from wikipedia!
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You do understand that wikipedia is one of the easiest sites to hack into and change information on don't you? They know this and they never say this but they are constantly having to go back and forth and change information after people hack into it and mess things up. They also rely on information from users as input...so how does that differ from Y!A? They don't do any research...they get their information for users. You can send in photos or any information that you have and generally they will post it as "update". I've honesty seen some really stupid shyt on wiki that I knew wasn't true but they still posted it.
On the other hand I also know that there are a lot of fruitcakes that sit back and try so hard to stir up controversy on Y!A. They are trolls and clones and losers in life and have nothing better to do then to try to sit back and try to discredit the site. Most of them are immature teenagers but you also have some highly educated people who are probably mentally handicapped and or just miserable SOB's and have nothing better to do then to make the site look bad. There are a lot of people who use the site correctly and do try to give informative answers but all of us who come here on a fairly regular basis know one another in one way or another so it does become somewhat of a social site also.
I would like to know exactly whom these researchers were, exactly who they used as subjects in their study, how long they studied these subjects and how they got their information and drew their conclusions? I need facts....wikipedia needs to up the facts....not just speal out a bunch of words with nothing behind them. I want names of organizations of whom, what, where and when and how. Wiki lies and everyone knows it. Y!A Rocks!!!!
Peace, Love & Happiness
EDIT: I must really love Y!A....I just informally cursed 4 times in one answer...please DO NOT report me!!!!
EDIT #2: Watch your back Mr. DM ~ Y!A does NOT take highly to criticism....I would hate to see suspended when you've come this far....tread lightly when speaking ill of them (j/k)
Stacy
I agree that people ask questions that they can googgle and are lazy but I dont agree with that statement because people also ask for help or just ask questions they want answers to that they cant look up.
Jen
I agree.
Although Wikipedia itself has articles written by anyone.
I wrote an article myself about a member of LFO lolll
OhMyLanta ♏☮-I♥MJ-♏☮
You have to take everything with a grain of salt.
You can never believe 100% of what you hear from the internet.
Anyone can post things on wiki too...
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ya it does seem to be a mix of net working with answers. this room is being harassed by bigots
the religion group is harassed by atheists. they come just to troll and bother .
if they removed the point system i think you would see less networking
mods might be needed for trolls though