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why does everyone on here just group up and fling **** at each other?

,vegans v meat eaters,feminazis vs fedora tippers, fake accounts just to enflame, questions which i can tell are meant to be funny but are not only offensive in their phrasing but offensively unfunny.

I'm relatively new to this site and mainly stick to the food and drink section(my bread and butter) but i find it enfuriating just skimming the rest of the categories and seeing the utter tripe that people are wasting time on, with copy/paste answers regurgitated from their doctrine of choice, insults that are reactionary and inflammatory and ive only scratched the surface of this shitmine generously called a forum. Why is this? what is the purpose of it? What do people get out of it? I'm so confused man, it boggles me.

P.S. Please keep your "Boo-Hoo" answers to yourself, i really am trying to understand this place, and why people frequent this site.

Update:

P.P.S- i dont know if this is the correct category, if its not just tell me and il change it

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  • br549
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Unlike other sites where answerers are screened and selected due to their knowledge, Yahoo Answers is a site where ANYONE can be an "expert!" Anyone can also post nearly whatever they wish.

    There was one guy in the automotive section that could fix anything by using Amzoil products! Hmm. I wonder what HE sold?

    The R&S section has gone totally nuts. Several sections have become "rate this picture" sites (of course they are always pictures of someone else! I have also learned that herbal supplements cure cancer, diarrhea, mental illness, broken bones, and make sex better!

    This site has become nothing more than an online Jerry Springer type gossip show! If you really want to learn go elsewhere. Legitimate answers still are read and "may" aide someone, but who knows what to believe on a site where there are no checks and balances?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Most of the people who come here are just here to pass the time but instead of asking and answering questions they decide to troll as it doesn't require much use of the brain.

  • 5 years ago

    Its gotten worse in recent months and you can really tell when the kids are out of school or on vacation because then its even worse. Relax, skip the questions that are offensive and answer the real ones...although sometimes those are few and far between.

  • 5 years ago

    Because it is fun and I and everyone else loves to do it. Everyone on this site is forced to listen to your opinions

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    because of fools who post rants with dirty words in them that have nothing to do with the purpose of this page. LIKE YOU.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Yahoo got rid of it's moderators and now it's a free for all.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    because we are monkeys deep down

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    You mean like this (your) question that has nothing to do with food/cooking?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Lol he knows.

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