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am i the only one here who wonders about some of the questions raised?
i really don't want to be mean with this, but it seems to me that for every question posted that makes some sense and is structured well enough for someone else to give at least a somewhat cogent and applicable answer, there seem to be literally dozens posted that range from completely incomprehensible to mindless to just plain ignorant. i realize that not all here are equally grounded in the english language or age or experience, but you'd think that a simple phone call, for example, to the local courthouse would get the answer to 'how much does it cost to change a first and middle name?'...hey, even if that's a bit of an effort, it's a lot more likely to get a 'ballpark' answer from a local authority than it is from someone here who is likely a resident of a different state. and then there are the questions that seemed more aimed to be confrontational toward people who have differing views from the 'asker', which suggests that 'yahoo answers' is being used more for 'blogging' purposes than the community help it's designed to be. there are a lot of things i could bring up here, but the bottom line is that a lot of us come for information or to help where we might, and it's more than frustrating to fight through so much inane fodder. should yahoo make greater efforts to edit these questions? i think so.
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- Yahzmin ♥♥ 4everLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Here's the basic problem: this IS a public-access site - and that means you have to deal with - the public. Yahoo has no staff to deal with any of this; they've even turned moderation of the site over to the users and automated programs. So, we are left with few choices: Weed through the 90% of BS to find the 10% worth answering, hope that SOMEBODY of integrity is still on the site willing to GIVE good answers (and there usually is), or find other places to hang out. Personally, I manage to find enough here to amuse me still, most of the time. Using "Advanced Search" helps weed some things out, for example, so I can avoid a lot of the mess more easily.
- Anonymous9 years ago
You are just ONE of MANY (HUGE NUMBERS) of people who do not understand how computers and computer networks "think"/work. YA is highly automated. NO LIVE PERSON reviews incoming questions. Sometimes a word doesn't get beyond a programmed language filter, so the word gets "*" out, but there are ways to get around the language filter, like simply putting spaces between each letter of the word. Yahoo and YA are PUBLIC sites THAT ARE NOT CENSORED. WE ARE THE MODERATORS OF YA.
When you sign up with Yahoo Answers, you become part of a DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING social network COMMUNITY that has a strictly enforced question-answer format.
