Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Why does YA force a person to ask a question then not post it?

After answering questions all day... (I have the day off and I am handicapped) I am forced to ask a question because YA won't show me any questions. supp with that?

4 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You can't answer unlimited questions until you are level 6 (9999 points, which is 5000 non-best answers). If you do run out of answers, I would recommend voting for best answers as this will earn you points instead of causing you to lose them from asking. I don't think I have reached my answering limit since I reached level 4.

    Source(s): Just wait. If you keep answering questions at that rate, you will have unlimited answers within a few weeks.
  • kozzm0
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    A week or two ago, I started a philosophy here on YA that says basically everybody is robots. You, me, everybody.

    YA wouldn't show you any more questions because it had just updated the distribution code. You see, the "everybody is robots" philosophy explains why people use computers so much. You're not actually using your computer, your computer is using you. Yahoo is part of a centralized system for the internet to distribute operating code to robots, i.e. people. Everything you do during the day depends on what your computer tells you. YA in particular is a robot-to-robot code distribution scheme.

    It's possible some of the code you distributed to other robots had caused malfunctions, and that YA insisted on updating you by forcing you to make a code request. All the answers to your question would then basically be a patch to fix whatever flaw there was in the code you were giving other robots.

    But it's more likely that YA was updating the code distribution system entirely so it was unavailable.

    To defend my philosophy of everybody is robots, I point out that pretty much all philosophies are unprovable, and they can all be made to look like complete BS with enough effort. Therefore, all philosophies are equally wrong, so judging a philosophy must evaluate not their truth but other positive elements. Humor being a positive element, the best philosophy is thus the funniest one.

  • 1 decade ago

    I ran into the same question(EDIT: I mean problem). I fixed the problem by clicking on the Answers Homepage, then on one of the "Recommended for You" questions. Then I got going again.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    this may be a bug.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.