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? asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 5 months ago

Is Yahoo Answers still big like it was 10 years ago, or has the userbase gone down tremendously?

Over the past couple of years, it's usually taken more time to get answers to my questions here. It makes me wonder if there are fewer people here now.

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  • 5 months ago

    I found racist comments on every Yahoo story back in the day, almost exclusively  directed at blacks. 

  • 5 months ago

    The original userbase is long dead, or at least 99.9% dead and the community has become a den of trolls.

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    we are not counting but quite a few ppl do come here.

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    no yahoo answers seems to be getting worse by the day. some have many accounts and use them on the same answer, someone on here thinks that they know everything and not one person can know the answer to all question. then their is one person that loves to insult others on here. 

  • 5 months ago

    Nope.  But a few of us old timers are still around.  

  • .
    Lv 7
    5 months ago

    It's MUCH less active than it was at it's height. 

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    Remember, YA is for information seeking questions (the answers to which, may help others). Whether YA is as active as it was years ago or not, isn't useful information. All question askers need is 1 user who can provide them with a correct/useful answer, regardless of how active the site is as a whole.

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    I remember being on it 10 years ago for a quick bit and I got some better answers... but people come and go on this site.. and now people are going to quora to get better answers 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 months ago

    No no where close to where it was 10 years ago 

    A lot Less people are using this Site now its pretty Dead Around here 

    Thats why I use this and Quora as well for Entertainment to Fulfill the time

  • 5 months ago

    In the Beginning,  2006, 2007......there was a thing called Knowledge Partners here.   Actual, real, well known intelligent people answering questions. 

    By the end of 2007...or start of 2008.....the site started becoming an obvious TROLL playground, and most of the serious, professional people  closed their accounts and left. 

    by 2009........the site was not much more than a troll playground.....and gets worse every year. 

    The site today is NOTHING like it was back then. 

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    Not as big as my diсk, but it's getting there.

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