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Why is it when you put up disclaimers for a particular demographic, everyone outside of it answers on here?

If I ask a question to a particular gender, race, creed or what have you, why do people feel the need to answer if they don't fall under the disclaimer? Am I the only one who gets irritated by that?

Update:

It's not so much the people outside of the target audience answering, it's their hateful, disparaging answers (from being excluded) that annoy me.

Update 2:

Neo Draven, you might just get 10 points for your answer, unless someone has a better one.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    "Hey, kid. See this big, red, shiny button? Whatever you do, DON'T PUSH IT. That button is meant to only be pushed by Spanish people. Don't push the button unless you're Spanish".

    What is every kid in the world going to do?

    Push the button.

    Y!A is no exception.

  • J.D.
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Knowledge doesn't recognize any geographical or demographic restrictions. What's wrong with getting some insight from other areas anyway?

    You're going to get hateful and outlandish responses no matter what questions you ask. That's just the way it is. Weed those out like you do in your face-to-face encounters.

  • 1 decade ago

    The disclaimer makes people feel excluded. Maybe they answer to feel included or to rebel against it?

  • 1 decade ago

    Because people of that gender, race, creed, or what have you probly don't go on yahoo! answers. And yea it pisses me off too

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  • 1 decade ago

    Everyone answers because Y!A is a public, wide-open Q&A site.

    Go to specialized Q&A sites if you want to limit the types of people who'll answer your specialized questions.

    Y!A is for everyone. Please don't try to change that.

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