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Wendy M asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

Do you ever wish you could rate questions?

Seriously, there should be a way to give a thumbs down to questions that are so poorly-written that they don't make any sense.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yes, I do feel many a times that questions are badly worded or are irrelevant.

    However, by introducing a thumbs down/up system for questions, we would possibly end up encouraging trolls who indiscriminately use this facility to harass people. I have seen many answers which are obviously so bad or meaningless that they deserve thumbs down, but they still get thumbs up ratings! A similar thing would happen if we allow such rating for questions too.

    I think it is better to stop the thumbs up/down marking for answers too, as they do create a bias when answers go for vote. Some people vote for the sake of earning a point, and they just vote for an answer that has a large no. of thumbs up! Only a discriminating member would read an answer carefully before casting his vote.

  • Well said, some of these questions dont make sense there so pointless

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