was the answering format changed AGAIN???

Looks like Y!A are tinkering with the format again, and unfortunately again it's not really clear to what advantage the latest changes are to many users.

It's noticeable that the elimination of how many people have answered a question has only been removed from the "Answer" stream and not the "Discover" one (where there are usually questions which generally get reasonable amounts of answers). The net result is that it:

A) Does not show now how few answers are placed to questions these days compared with the past

B) It requires additional page clicks from users to be able to see how many answers and/or answer them

Whether this is accidental or a deliberate design decision is anyone's guess and time will tell I suppose.

EDIT - yes Yahoo continue to play around with things constantly

e.g. answering questions which already have a Best Answer

- When it started you didn't earn 2 points for answering these questions

- Then they changed it so you did

- Now it's back to you not getting the points again

e.g. being able to delete questions if the answers are also deleted

- I saw an asker test it and she couldn't delete a question which had the answer removed

- Apparently three months ago it was possible to do that

- Now? It's anyone's guess!