What do points do on yahoo answers?

Points are just an incentive to answer more and get more points.

The more points you have that allows you to go up in levels and the more questions you can ask.

The points table below summarizes the point values for different actions.

Begin participating on Yahoo Answers One Time: 100

Ask a question -5

Choose a best answer for your question 3

Answer a question 2

Self-deleting an answer -2

Log in to Yahoo Answers Once daily: 1

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"

Receive a violation -10

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You can get 20 points taking the guidelines quiz. Look bottom left and click About and

then Community Guidelines.

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Points Table

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.)

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I have been wondering where to spend them for years, and still can't figure it out. As long as you make it to Level 2, the rest doesn't matter.

~Cindy! :)

They allow you to ask and answer more questions.

They help users level up and be able to ask and answer more.

nothing

nothing

NOTHING

Bugger all.