Iv'e noticed that there is less parcipitation in the Senior Citizens categorie than there was in the past. Why?..I have a theory..Do You?

Its not just the Senior citizens category that is going downhill, its many other categories as well.

The constant changes to the format and the fact that trolls are not dealt with promptly and also many genuine members resent this ability to post anonymously which has led to an increase in abuse.

Too many under age kids are on the sites and ask the same old questions.

To be honest I`m surprised that there are stlll ANY members left at all on some of the sections of Yahoo answers.

Having recently been the subject of dreadful abuse from a anonymous member I am not going to let the bast*ard intimidate me into not answering any questions, so I`m still here for now at least.

Hiding behind an anonymous profile all the time is just plain cowardly

If its for a good reason, like asking an embarrassing question then that's not so bad.

Jmo.

I don't go on any of the categories as much as I used to. Nothing ever works right. The original format was fine; every change makes it worse. I can't even post a normal question anymore (the main question and then explanation underneath). I also have not appreciated being reported for innocent answers which obviously were not read by the powers-that-be, and having constant thumbs down when I make an accurate statement or present a well-known fact. If I said water was wet, I would get 5 thumbs down.

And it's not just me...I see this happening to everybody. The site has really gone downhill. I used to go on it every day; now it's more like every two weeks, and then not for long.

I was invited to Quora just over a year ago. Quora is for real intelligent people who like to discuss topics with other real (not hiding behind a false nickname and avatar) intelligent people. There are many categories.

People can have 'discussions' on Quora and your input WONT be suddenly reported by some anonymous person and disappear. Of course that does not mean you can be nasty, Quora is very well moderated by the people who work there.

Also if you advise people to use an anti-inflammatory diet plan for life because they rheumatoid arthritis, an overweight cream cake eating person can not just go and report and make your answer disappear because they want to eat cream cake and stay unhealthy. Infact other people will upvote your answer and provide recipes for anti-inflammatory meals in the comments boxes. So as you can see - it is only for emotional intelligent people who are not offended by someone suggesting that they have a bad diet.

Be prepared some people can be sarcastic on Quora - but it is used appropriately - to teach people a lesson. It's not for the faint hearted. There is definately more of a feeling 'of being with family' on Quora, someone there to gently guide you or another to give the proverbial 'swift kick up the @****'.

Topics include science, medical and health matters, nutrition, business management and leadership, philosophy, sports, writing, film production, marketing, advertising and graphic design, architecture, family relationships and so on.

yes, it's even changed since I've been on here. lots of trolls, which is really irritating. Like many others I use a screen name, but I am available if anyone wants to send a message. Although I have had to block a couple of people after receiving abusive comments.

I'm level 7, but have never moved any question to a different forum; I consider that is wrong.

I have no interest in getting BA, after all, it means nothing. I am just pleased that an answer I have given seems to help the person asking the question.

I'm still here, but not a frequent as in the past. One thing about Yahoo Seniors site I will never understand is when they tell you that your question or answer is considered chat. What's wrong with doing that? It's a social media and that's why I come here.

Over the past several years, not just recently, not just within the past year, people have aged and initially moved on to different groups online (where you had to be asked to join up), or where users of the SC group got sick and left, and people have come and gone from this SC group because this is a "game" and not a blog so once they earned their points it was time to move on so they did. Yahoo has had several presidents come and go and the more recent decided to make changes but did ask first what people wanted changed, and changed things accordingly. The SC group was the hardest for me to ever get a "best" in so I left my comments and spent a lot more time in other categories. I always thought people in SC were more from America but this past year a lot more from the UK have joined us and we have different ways of thinking, different things we've all been thru, different food and recipes, and now it's super difficult to get any points at all in here so a lot of us spend our time in other categories. If Yahoo sees a problem with any of its programs, instead of making changes it deletes something totally and that's been most frustrating. The most recent thing is that they were telling me to upgrade my browser when I'm unable to do that, so that means not everything in YA works properly for me, like sometimes I had to wait 10 minutes before my answer will submit. YA being a game well questions from 7 years ago are being recycled. To me that means fewer people are in YA. But what else it means is that those questions being asked aren't asking for serious answers since they got their immediate answer 7 years ago, so YA is all about points. In the past in YA people used to give actual information and seriously want to help out a questioner, but these days with the repeated questions of old well any ole answer for 2 points will do. Perhaps if we wish to have a blog then maybe someone who knows technology could set one up for us, a place where we could go to help each other out.

I visit a few of the other categories and all of them seem to be losing participation. I can visit once a week and no new questions have been posted. I assume people have gotten fully fed up with Yahoo!Answers mucking about with the format and dong all these new protocols making it very difficult to use, allowing trolls to continue on, removing perfectly legitimate, logical clean questions, etc. Could be that Yahoo wants to get rid of this whole answer thing but doesn't want to face the wrath of so many users. And of course there probably are sections that I don't drop in on that are heavily active with stuff I couldn't care less about. Kind of sad, I used to really like visiting this section because most of the regulars had nice senses of humor, had things to say that related to lots of us, made it feel like visiting friends. Now most of them are gone (hopefully to better realities).

Yes I do have a theory, or maybe it should be called an observation. We are ALL aware of it here. The main two bugbears are the changes constantly being made by Yahoo. Older people don't like things, which are familiar to us, suddenly being changed - not once, but several times.

The other problem is TROLLS. Trolls infiltrate all categories I should think but we are probably easier targets because they have worked out what sort of things offend us. They are not content with just saying offensive things but they really enjoy reporting our contributions when there is nothing wrong with our entries. The trolls have realized that Yahoo is now so disorganized that they allow all reports to just go through and our challenges to them go unread.

Many have left because of these things and some of us have stayed in hopes of seeing change but, so far, we are seeing none. How long the S.C. section will last remains to be seen.

There exist several possible reasons, here are some:

1.) The changes over the past year. Ever since the update from September of last year, this site has gone from bad to worse. They used to allow users to see how many thumbs up they had & who gave their answer a good rating; that option is no longer available.

2.) Boredom, some folks get tired of the usual questions/Answer layout, they may take weeks, months, or even years of vacation from this site before returning.

3.) The increased number of trolls using this site. The false reporting and constant bullying/harassing bseems to have increased over the past year on this site.

4.) Some users have gotten suspended.

5.) a combination of the 4 mentioned or numerous other reasons.

There should be no Anonymous answers allowed to be posted.

The name they give themselves is anonymous enough. Yahoo

keeps changing the format (for the worse). Legitimate answers

are removed yet others who use gutter language stay on. One

person answers 3 times of one question with different avatars

but Yahoo somehow doesn't see these no-no's. I get frustrated

when it won't even post my answer. What good is points?