Why are people so greedy with Stars on Yahoo Answers? They don't cost any points.?

I give stars to questions I find interesting or unique or funny, but I have noticed that barely anyone gives stars. Maybe if Y!A gave some points to stars given, people would be more generous. I guess it is like those pennies lying on the sidewalk - no one ever notices them any longer...

There are questions I may want to reference so I star them so I can quickly go back to them, or I find a question spectacularly interesting, there are so many interesting questions here I am usually in a trance as I post an answer and go to the next two points.

If I ask a question, I am merely honored anyone answers it, considering anyone with an open connection to the internet who reads English can answer me, pretty cool. But stars are cool too, to each his own. But you do get a star, and a lemon scone should we ever have tea. Ciao.

Do you mean stingy? It appears that some think stars cost points. They do not. Repeat: They Do Not cost any points.

People who have yet to read the US Constitution, think the President can raise taxes. Congress is the federal legislative branch of government with the responsibility of taxation. Who reads the US Constitution?

There are many questions that rate stars. Who reads the point chart?

People are catching on though. The glass is half full. Do your part. Together we will do ours. Let's lead by example.

Smile.

If someone asks a question that I do not know the answer to and I am interested in what they have asked I star the question so that when other people have answered I can learn something.

I also star questions that I think my contacts would be interested in answering. Sometimes my contacts do answer them.

Most people don't give stars, I read if you let people vote instead of you, that you get the 5 points it costs to do a question back

I'm not sure how stars even work. I know the question has a yellow start in front of it as "interesting" but does the asker get more points for those stars or what?

I answer so many questions that I use the star only if I want to go back & look at other answers- it has to be a really good question. Then I can go "look at my starred questions" & not have to go through every question I answered.

Star for you!

I star the question if I think the question is a good one,and if I think 1 of my contacts may have a better answer.No they do not cost points,nor do they add points.But the more stars you have the better your chances will be to getting a better answer or the rite one.

I am sorry I am one of the guilty ones. I do good to remember to keep going and click on Submit. You always have very good questions and I enjoy answering them. I just forget to go back to give you a star which you do deserve. I will try to do better.

Some people like to go back and look at the questions they starred and going to thousands of them that aren't really interesting is inconvenient. Some just don't want to bother pressing it and some just don't.