Why is there a point system for answering questions?
It is to encourage people to reveal their lives so your data can be collected and sold to advertisers?
It is to encourage people to reveal their lives so your data can be collected and sold to advertisers?
CarolOkla
Favorite Answer
To motivate you to ANSWER questions and choose best answers to your questions.
That is why you LOSE 5 points when you ASK a question. There is a limit to how many questions you can a answer each Yahoo "day." The Yahoo "day" does NOT end and start at midnight in YOUR time zone. Right now it ends and starts around 8 pm EDT on the east coast of the United States and 5 pm PDT on the west coast.
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It's to encourage use of the site. You've already provided data by creating a Yahoo account, whether you ever use YA or not.
Daniel
To Encourage other people to Participate on Yahoo Answers
Anonymous
It gives Yahoo a good feeling to have something they can take away from you without actually removing your account.
FemaleLotRfan
Because it helps you level up so you can ask and answer more questions.