Don't you think the new points system is a great opportunity?

I think it is very beneficial to the community.

It does curb those borderline questions and encourages people to search past questions for answers.

While the dumb and stupid will always waste their points and ask away, those can be easily ignored. Many of the people here are intelligent and willing to engage on a good discourse.

I think the new system encourages those obsessive compulsive folks to 'equalize' the points they lost for asking and encourages browsing of 1 answer and orphaned questions as well as rating. Far too few people vote or rate answers. Not only is it a lot fo points for the points hoarders, but it helps validate the good from the bad.

Sadly, there is a stupid question about a tree octupus with two scientifically valid answers and they are LOOSING the votes to an internet website meant as a spoof. If more people browsed questions in need of voting, hopefully sanity would win.

Grrrrrrrrr Rah! Rah! Rah! I hate it.

As I am sure you remember, that is what -2pts was suppose to do. Did it work? Nope! THAT is why we now have -5 pts.

Guess what??!!???

IT AIN'T GONNA WORK EITHER!!!!

The fatal flaw, is in the thinkikng.

So sorry, but so true.

This whole -ANY points was to curb the "very stupid questions" as well as an incentive to have people come back and close their questions. The belief was that these acts were being performed by people " that are just interested in POINTS". This is not true!

People "that are interested in POINTS", would never waste their time with stupid questions. There is no POINTS in it. The "points" are in RECEIVING Best Answer and following through and resolving questions. Just the opposit of the appearently popular perception.

I personally think that thoses problems are being caused by some of our youngest users. But that is a whole other topic.

I don't know if "a great opportunity" is the best way to describe fewer questions being asked. It may result in a cleaner site with more serious answers, as well as more resolved questions, but there will likely be less good content added as well. I'm sure there are many people who have great questions to ask (not just "noise" or repeat questions) but will be discouraged by the point deduction.

Well, this rule is great if you ask me. This rule is to discourage the people who are gaming for points. It is not exactly to "discourage" people to ask questions, it is to eliminate questions like "Who wants some free points?", "What is your name?", "What is your age?" etc.

Maybe The Yahoo! Answers Team observed that people were asking meaningless questions & then awarding the best answers to their "friends" which is a total abuse of the system. This rule will make people more selfish about the points, now, nobody would like to lose points only to donate his/her "buddy" some points, right? So, basically this rule will cut down the noise.

So, I think this rule is a great opportunity for the persisent abusers of the site, but, I can't say the same for the people who occassionally hit the site, ask a silly question and then go away to never come back. We will have to deal with such abusers via the "Report abuse" button, that's all we can do. I guess, we'll have to rely on the Yahoo! Answers Moderators for things we can't avoid.

So, "Moderator, thy job is safe".

Thanks for listening...

Hi!Good morning!

Yes,I agree whith you!

What I like most is that,now,people get one more point for choosing a best answer than for calling a vote.

A lot of people here don't care enough for the ones who gave them serious and good answers and don't bother choosing one and thanking all the others.I'm getting tired of this!I've called a vote before,when I was new here,but regret it and won't do it again

I hope and belive that this new system will improve things here!

Have a nice day! :)

I think it's GREAT !

and it's really no big deal - Not sure why people are squawking about it. If they follow up on their Q's they can get points back for putting to a vote or by picking best answer.

NO problem in my book. more insentives and privileges for active members is the direction we need to move toward.

PS - I just don't get it... ***What is the big deal about the point decuction?*** *** We get most of the points back when we follow up on the question anyway***

I agree with suede1690. Putting -5 points for asking questions is to much. How would a first timer put up their points back if they can only answer as much as 4 questions?

This should be viewed as an experiment. We will be able to observe the effects (or at least the people running the site will be able to measure them). And hopefully they will be able to demonstrate what direction they should go in to reduce the amount of noise in the system and make it more useful.

Yes Certainly.

I don't like them taking away 5 points when you ask a question. The questions aren't as good or as many since they have starting charging.