What is the point of people like Donald Trump asking questions here?

I agree.

I saw that Marilyn received nearly 9,000 answers and we're supposed to believe she actually read and critically analyzed all those answers?

Same with Trump. He posed a question, some ringer posted or will post an answer he's already seen and will "choose" it.

Just another scam. But, it's harmless.

If you read the Yahoo! Answers Blog, it says that the questioner, even Donald Trump, will choose a Best Answer from his question, even if the answer is in the thousands. I'll bet more than half of those answers can be quickly skipped because they're short and not likely to hold any important truths. The last celebrity has already chosen her answer from 4 days ago, so yes, it's for real. I think it's cool and draws a lot more interested people here.

He's getting FREE WORK out of you! Someone will want to share an insight which he will be able to use to turn more profit! Don't you see it? He's got people to read the answers FOR him, and weed out the dumb ones and give him the ones that could work! It's a way of getting people to brainstorm on his question without having to pay them any kind of wages, compensation or benefits!

That's exactley what it is: a publicity stunt. Yahoo wants more people involved w/ answers. And the best answer recieves a prize or something. And actually, every answer is read: marylin vos whatever checked all of them and chose a best answer.

He wants to see how many people come up with the right answer that he'd be thinking about. We just wants to see who is straight up and truthful with him, how many idiots are out here and how many people are just star struck that he actually asked a question.

You all need to ease up on the Donald .He's had a rough life.Can't you imagine his anguish.He's got all that money and still can't fix that hair.

Celebrity status. Nobody knows jimbob4214 or something lke that, but we all know the Donald/

anyone can post questions so if donald trump or even george bush wants to..... let them

Well, people want to answer it because they want to win prizes.

He has too much time on his hand.