does anyone have any tips on how to get more responses to questions when you ask?

You need contacts, and you need stars. When one of your contacts puts a star on a question, it shows up in all their contacts' profile pages and at the beginning of the front page for those contacts. So gather contacts, and trade star-able questions with them. This will lead to more people who would be worthy contacts, etc.

There's also writing provocative (but not rude) questions, and there's putting them in the appropriate category. This one is a good question and it's in the right category. I gave it a star, and I added you to my contacts list.

Good luck!

Tha amount of answers is completely not important at all. What is important is the Quality of the answers you get. If you ask a question and get a great answer, then why would you want more that are not great? You dont get any points when someone answers a question. The whole point of Yahoo answers is to get your question answered. Once that has been acomplished, why would you want to beat a dead horse?

EDIT: CKATZ Plagerism is a flagrant violation of yahoo answers and you have been reported.

If you ask the kind of question that is likely to ignite passions because of its contrary nature. you will get a whole lot of people jumping up and down all over the place.

Few answers means you are getting sensible quality answers and not ones from nut jobs.

Toodle pip dude

It's important to chose the right category.

Aunt B93 stated it very well! You need contacts and start starring your contacts questions that you like. In turn, they will star yours.