Wat s the use of points in y! answers?

To erage participation and to move up the levels so that you can ask answer more in a day.

for asking questions u need to have points.U can check that after u ask a question 5 points are reduced from ur total points.Once u become member u are awarded 101 points initially. So to earn more points ,so that u can ask more and more questions ,u need to answers questions of others.For every answer u will get 2 points.But if ur answer is selected as the best answer u would get 10 points.This is all about points.

So earn more n more points!

Yahoo! Answers is the global platform to share your knowledge, exchange information and ask genuine questions. It's an easy way to get local information on subjects and also to learn by sharing personal experience.

The points serve many purposes. They help pep the user by giving him points for sharing his time, energy and knowledge. At the same time they help people in the community to gauge where a particular user stands in terms of his expertise on a subject or his knowledge.

At every level the user is also empowered as the number of questions and answers one can put increase at every level

To know more on points visit this link: http://in.answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_system

Hope this helps!

Simple the points give you right to ask Questions in y! answer

They're meaningless tokens to which some people - alas, myself included - somehow become addicted. It's on the same level, although ultimately even less useful, than gold in online games.

When they take you to level 2 you can kick the butts of those who give silly answers by giving them "thumbs down".

Watch the "thumbs down" I'm going to get for this answer!