Who do you blame for yahoo answers getting shutdown?

Perpetually offended liberal snowflakes 

I think Verizon neglected it in the hope that it would fall into disrepair, get overrun by trolls etc, so they had a good excuse to shut it down without having to take the blame, because they couldn't easily monetise it.  Which is silly because you could just point a generative adversarial network at it and come up with an amazing AI engine, but there you go.

I would like to sit here and blame all of the corporate fat-cats who run Yahoo (along with the one skinny one), but this question hit me in a rare moment of self-reflection. Is chaos at odds with order? Does blame justify culpability? I read this question and a prickling question slowly emerged in the back of my consciousness. I had to get up, pace around the house, eventually daring to look into the mirror. Just like the wild ocean waves beating desperately against the cliffs of Covehithe, I too was wailing on. Beating, crashing, and snarling in the noise, lost amongst the chaos. I too was responsible. Yahoo Answers began with the most noble cause of any website ever built, the Mother Theresa of Silicon Valley, the Ghandi of the web. A place where inquiry would find reason. Chaos meets order. Uncertainty met truth. Yet I, but one particle of water, crashed against the cliffs, joining the disarray, rejoicing in it. And here we are, the inevitable end. The erosion of the cliffs. I knew this was how it must end. But now that the end is here, I take no pleasure in it. There are cliffs and waves still to climb, and Yahoo Answers will slowly fade away into memory like the death of a dying star. And I, knowingly pushing for it. I am not blameless, even though truthfully we were always going to end here whether or not I also drank the hebonen.

But also, if I sit back and think about it again. I don't want to take responsibility for any of the blame. So in summary, I think it's those corporate fat-cats whose fault this is. And the more I think about it, the more upset I get. I'm still ok with the skinny one, he gets a pass.

Yahoo Serious, the founder of yahoo.

Yahoo, of course, is to blame. No one else but Yahoo can pull that trigger. As far as REASONS go, most likely lack of profitability also its another tool to stifle conservative voices, just like Yahoo shutting down the post article discussions.

I blame anonymous posters.

Yahoo. they just couldn't turn it around. or lack of interest to do it. 

Yahoo answers likely doesn't turn a profit even with the absolute lack of moderation and upkeep to the forum. I also imagine the owners of Verizon don't like having right wing views being posted on their site, so instead of spending the money necessary to moderate those views off a forum that doesn't make them any money they just decided to close the whole thing down.  

Yahoo started out shutting down comments on their articles....now its answers. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this one. Look at what they allow on their page. Democratic  posts and cut down the republicans. I will be deleting all my yahoo email accounts and going to google. See ya biased  yahoo

It's probably more of a headache to moderate the disinformation. YA is much more popular with the far-right. They probably don't make that much money worth the risk and work to deal with the political section of YA.