Why does Yahoo Answers allow you to answer your own questions?

And LAN, this isn’t a chat violation, okay? If you don’t like it, you can either ignore me or leave this site.

Anonymous2020-10-15T12:31:36Z

Good question. But at least they don't let people award themselves favorite answer (unless people use a sock account to answer.)

Anonymous2020-10-13T22:13:13Z

So the next person who has the same question can find the answer in seconds, rather than post it again and wait for days.

> And LAN, this isn’t a chat violation, okay?


No, not okay. Calling out users is a violation

bluebellbkk2020-10-13T17:55:27Z

"And LAN, this isn’t a chat violation, okay? If you don’t like it, you can either ignore me or leave this site."
 You don't get to dictate how other people respond to your question. If LAN or anyone else doesn't like your question, they have more than the two options you laid down: they also have the option of reporting it.
Just saying.

.2020-10-13T13:17:58Z

That feature was added so the OP could add the correct answer to a question, if they found it and no other respondents had done so. The original goal of the site was to be a database of knowledge/experience for anyone to be able to access. The more questions with correct/useful answers, the more helpful the database would be as a whole. 
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Unfortunately, some OPs use the answer area to add additional info to their question or to post to other users, and that's not what the ability was supposed to be used for (and updates to questions often get overlooked if they are posted amongst the answers). 

?2020-10-13T10:50:21Z

To make it Easier for Mobile Devices 

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