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How do i answer questions on yahoo answers!?

WTF! Why can't this be like other forums where there is a box to type in your response to the topic on the thread! I need help! i want to know how to answer questions on here. Some times i google a queston, and i click on a yahoo answers article. I read the article and some of the responses and i wanna respond too!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Firstly you click answer at the top of the page then you choose an category click scroll down to the point where you will see question click the section that is (click the question)

    click on the

    Answer Question blue box type your answer enter your source if you want (to give credit)

    click preview at the bottom of the page the blue box as simple

    then submit.

    you get 2 points for each question you answer

    if you don't know how to participate in yahoo answers

    here is more info and details and levels

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    To encourage participation and reward great answers, Yahoo! Answers has a system of points and levels. The number of points you get depends on the specific action you take. The points table below summarizes the point values for different actions. While you can't use points to buy or redeem anything, they do allow everyone to recognize how active and helpful you've been. (And they give you another excuse to brag to your friends.)

    Points Table

    Action Points

    Begin participating on Yahoo! Answers One Time: 100

    Ask a question -5

    Choose a best answer for your question 3

    No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question Points Returned: 5

    Answer a question 2

    Deleting an answer -2

    Log in to Yahoo! Answers Once daily: 1

    Vote for an answer 1

    Vote for No best answer 0

    Have your answer selected as the best answer 10

    Receive a "thumbs-up" rating on a best answer that you wrote (up to 50 thumbs-up are counted) 1 per "thumbs-up"

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    6 10,000 - 24,999 * unlimited * 100 unlimited 100

    5 5,000 - 9,999 * unlimited * 100 unlimited 80

    4 2,500 - 4,999 20 80 40 100 unlimited 80

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    1 1 - 249 5 20 10 10 0 20

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    i hoped this helps

  • 1 decade ago

    chances are they are old.

    you can only reply to a question for i believe the first week then the responses get voted on, but if you want to answer some there are always 3 things at the top of the (yahoo questions page) [ASK] [ANSWER] [DISCOVER] and if you click answer you can find a lot of questions that need answering. if you found a specific one then right under the question should be a button that says answer this question, you click that and you can type your response. if it doesn't have that button chances are its in voting or its been voted on and closed to answers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Some of them may be resolved questions, meaning that you cannot answer.

    But if you find a new question, underneath what the asker has written about there is a button called: Answer this question.

    Then scroll down till the text box, preview it then click ok.

  • cyndee
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Under categories you click on the section you want to answer questions about,

    or

    Click on the question and a answer tab will come up. Click on that tab, input your answer and submit

    or

    click on the middle tab at the top of the page which is titled answer.

    Source(s): The reason you might not be able to answer a question you have googled is that it could be an old question that has been solved.
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  • ishoot
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    - Click on the following link: http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=ask&more=y

    - Click on any OPEN question that you want to answer.

    - Click on the blue "Answer Question" bar under the question.

    - Type in your answer in the box. If you have any sources include that too.

    - Click Preview. Then click edit if you want to edit, and submit if you want to submit.

    Also, you earn 2 points for each question you answer.

  • 1 decade ago

    See above the 3 white and green boxes that say ASK, ANSWER, and DISCOVER. click the answer box and then go from there and once you click the question u want to answer click the blew answer button and then your done. hope i helped bye!

    Source(s): Same thing happend to me but now i know and i joined yesterday. bye
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This isn't a forum.

    This is a place where people are SUPPOSED to ask legitimate questions and people with the appropriate knowledge answer them. But instead it's devolved into a hive of people demanding others do their homework for them, and preteen girls who want to talk about Twilight and Michael Jackson and what Twilight character Michael Jackson would be.

  • 5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    click on the question click answer question write statement in the box press preview then submit

  • 1 decade ago

    You can click the bar on the top that says "answer." and then choose a category that you want to answer. Hope I helped!(:

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