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What think you of this 'hunt and peck' for your contacts' questions?

This is some kind of crazy! We barely had time, in our busy days, to answer a few questions, then be off to the real world...now we have to spend MORE time HUNTING the questions down???? Bull!!!!

Update:

And, 'thinking' is definitely NOT 'chatting'!!!!!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It sucks to put it mildly. When it first started happening I started writing to Yahole to ask what was going on. It is just incredible how they can sidestep the issue and and after 5 emails still not answer the question. I only have two possible explanations, either the automatic notification of contact postings took up too much server space that they needed for all the extra advertising, or the chimp that knows what button to push to fix it all, quit.

  • I just got to level 3 and I never figured out how to use the old system. Does this mean I have to start over with new contacts? I'm just glad I've had lots of friends that faithfully kept Q'ing me so far.

    First, My Yahoo changes Mail without notice. Now this? Classic, isn't it?

    All this time wasted Hunting we could spend at GoodWill.

    You can see how desperate I am that I have to "hunt and peck" for contacts, so how are we supposed to become "Top Contributors" if we can't keep in contact with our current friends?

    Yahoo needs to provide a better Operator's Manual.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have used hunt n peck from day one as I have a minor OCD issue with mega messages in my inbox. Means I have to read that and then the poem. I just go to my contact Q & A list or click their avatars.

    Yes like CS I got the message today "your contacts have not asked questions and answers this week" yet I see one on My Contacts list that is 8 mins old. Makes no sense.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes I believe your right on this, had the experience the other day! Was looking for a post in all the ramble and never did come up with it, since it had been 3 days since the post, really hard to find!

    What happened to them emailing you when a contact posted a question, have they stopped that? Hmmm sometimes I get them and sometimes I don't ! It seems like a confused mess to me! All of us out here are relating to this problem! Good morning to you Elyslund! Ps. This is not chat either!!

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  • ``..``
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Hi!! Yeah, sometimes it's hard to find the good questions.......some people select that option to have their contacts' questions emailed to them......I don't because I hate a cluttered mailbox (more than one page gets me crazy, lol).

    What happens, a lot of times to me, is I miss a lot of contact questions on my profile page, as starred questions push the contact's ones to the back of the list.

    If there are one or two contacts whose questions you really enjoy, you could go to their profiles, and check to see what questions they've asked (which is still hunting and pecking) That gets time consuming if you like about 50 people's questions, though, LOL!! Happy weekend!!

    Source(s): Edit: OOPS.....I just read through some of the other answers.....I didn't realize they weren't emailing questions anymore (I guess because I didn't use that option).....sorry for bad advice....please forgive....LOL...I just go to the profile, and select, "See More From Your Contacts," and catch what I can there.....
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    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • It's not so bad, really. Just got to " see more from your contacts " and the whole list is there. LOL

    I have never had emails sent when a contact asks a question. I would have a heart attack with that since I have contacts who ask well over twenty questions in one day.

    Good morning!

  • 1 decade ago

    I am searching for the 12 point buck. Take away your clues. Need no "doey" scents. This be the Internet, or is it the Wild Wild West, where rules keep changing? I nominate Sheriff Elys to go, six shooters hanging, and restore the order! Snidely is also duly deputized!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I never enable the option to receive the Q from contacts. If that is what you are asking. It is very easy to go to ones profile page and take it from there. They are all listed.

    As I did for your Q today. I just went to "see more from your contacts"

    The option is not to go there! As I do on busy days.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i can't stand it. i have missed out on so many good questions. before i get a chance to answer, WHEN i find them, my contacts have already chosen a best answer. i hope that one day the bosses will finally get it back to where it was before. i posted a suggestion to them a few days ago and this is what they said

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