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intelex asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Have you ever taken a close look at Yahoo Answers Politics?

I'm a guy driven by data. What I notice is that:

When you refresh your screen, the number of thumbs up/down changes for your answer and others.

I've noticed that the answer I vote for is sometimes not statistically calculated (i.e. 0% for answer I voted for or the question doesn't even appear).

I'm not sure if this is just very "buggy" or....

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  • mmv
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yea, I've noticed that happening for the last couple of weeks. The number of votes go down and sometimes zero out depends on how many times you refresh.

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah, sometimes the answer above me will have no thumbs and then I refresh and my answer and all below me all of a sudden have 3 thumbs up and 3 thumbs down, or 6. The number of up and down is always the same...

  • 1 decade ago

    The thumbs have been "buggy" now for a couple of months. They supposedly fixed Y!A a few weeks ago and they didn't fix the thumbs.

    Drives me batty.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yeah... If you don't like the number of TU or TD you get... just hit refresh.

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I have a fan

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yea, Yahoo! has had issues with this for a few weeks now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, I have noticed this too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because when you refresh,other people have commented,and did ratings,hence the refresh brings up there input.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You're quick.

  • 1 decade ago

    i have noticed that too....

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