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Liligirl asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

Should you have to explain your rating of answers?

I have seen so many answers, that range from benign to extremely informational, tagged with thumbs down marks. For no apparent reason even the most polite and helpful answers receive negative marks.

How do you rate an answer and, do you think that negative marks should have to be explained?

Thanks to all!

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    No it would not work, because the reason 98% of the time will be "I disagree with this opinion". What good is that going to do you. People just disagree with you. This isn't a site for debates. If there are other reasons, nobody is going to tell you. Rarely is the reason, your answer is wrong. That happens in the science categories sometimes.

    Take a simple question. What is your favorite color? (note this question is a violation, but for illustrative purposes here). If you answer pink and someone answers blue, instead of other people answering blue or pink, they just TU/TD the answers. If they don't like your pink and are neutral on blue, they may TD you and do nothing for the other answer. It is nothing personal, it is just a way of agreeing or not.

    However, thumbs down can be gotten for many reasons, only one of which is the correct usage. Some of the ways:

    1. the answer is incorrect or you disagree with an opinion (the only real reasons)

    2. you sound over 18 (believe it or not)

    3. you support the rules on YA

    4. you understand the rules of YA

    5. you take the site seriously

    6. you answered the question (some answerers will TD all other answers)

    7. it was fun (random playing)

    8. you are in the military, a policeman, or some authority figure

    9. etc -

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    in case you hate him why'd you waste time scripting this...purely asserting. 7 and a a million/2, particularly for his versatility, he can go from a rap song to an R & B song, and nonetheless sound good. As, a guy or woman he seems nicely prepare and nicely spoken.. yet he has himself pronounced he spends high quality time with ladies then disappears without contacting her. i've got on no account heard him sing stay so i won't be able to fee him on that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No It's all a joke.

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