If Yahoo! Answers was a paid service, would you still participate?

Not as it is now! If anyone imagines I am going to PAY Yapoo for the unbelievably biased, unfair, cavalier and arbitrary way

the "violations" are handled; they're way past "imagining"; they have entered "out of their mind"!

The reason ANYone tolerates this is it's fun, and it's free! IT is waaay less fun than it was when it began, and if they try to charge for a service this poor; they're gone. I don't mean I'm gone. That goes without saying.

I mean Yahoo is gone!

Advertising pays Yahoo. If no one will pay for Yahoo; no one will see the advertising. If no one sees the advertising; the advertisers will pull out. -poof!- No Yahoo.

The regular email doesn't work; the 360s don't work, and GOD knows Answers doesn't work! At the moment even the avatars don't work!

The Top Contributor Badges that they've been "trying to fix" on P&S.... Where are they? Have you seen ONE for P&S in the LAST MONTH? Me either.

PAY for it? HA!

TD: re:"smarter than" you....I seriously doubt it... I don't know how smart you are, of course... but I have a very good idea of how smart Yapoo isn't.

Oh, and TD?.. TELL LIZZY the punchline! lol

Yes i would pay as long as it wasn;t too much as we already pay for the internet so 5 or 10 dollers i guess wouldn;t kill me i guess...maybe a dating service for all the singles on question ;and answers too; as that would be lots of fun....

I first have been given onto Y!A by using fact i in my opinion mandatory to be attentive to the call of a "bike" I had seen in my travels at some point. (is declared as a Recumbent and gave the gentleman BA) jointly as waiting for an answer, I have been given nosy. discovered with reference to the factors device, the CG, FAQ's. Then I went seeking to verify if there have been others that could in all probability use any information i could desire to furnish. i did not bypass on an answering spree basically for factors. yet became into genuine superb once I have been given chosen BA's. extraordinarily while the asker chosen it and not electorate. And confident, i presumed it became into cool to have the element device in place as the thank you to greater valuable gauge myself as a participant. i became into, am, and could constantly be, a to blame participant. it quite is not in me to interest for factors. and that i quite could not do a number of the flaws I see. could I even have persevered to take area on the commencing up devoid of the element device?? confident. could I nonetheless proceed to take area if the element device became into now not in place?? confident. could desire to the element device stay in place?? confident. the element device isn't the issue. you will nonetheless have clientele that abuse the device, basic, in basic terms on account that's of their mentality to realize this, with or devoid of the factors. I had quite study a 360 weblog by utilising one person that spelled out how they have been abusing the area. They weren't doing it for the factors. removing the element device shouldn't replace that clientele abuse. And that person isn't the sole one, unhappy to declare.

$5.00 a month would be tops & then I'd have to see some improvements. Scrap Community moderation, allow ignore user for minor rule breaking. Report only for terribly offensive posts, pedophiles & other criminal activity, terrorists ot or people who joke about it in order to intimidate others.

Probably not. Why pay if you are just answering questions. Maybe if you would like to ask a question, payment could be considered. (Payment to the best answer ? :)

Now that is an idea...

Nope, not at all. They make enough money from advertisments. Heck man, they are a multibillion dollar company, do they need the additional revenue? I think not. Please don't give these corporate a.s.s.holes any more ideas on how far they can squeeze the dollar.

No because asking a question should not cost a dime and answering shouldn't cost anything either.

I prolly would, if, people, would'nt, leave me hanging about the jokes they post.

TD

Not that I am mentioning any names.

TD TD TD

No. I never use paid services.

I think $10.00 per month is reasonable and a great idea.

Edit: To all you simple minded folks who gave me a thumbs down. If we pay we can end the censorship here. They could keep a free section for all the teens and all the self righteous morons to ask and answer the mindless drivel