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Anyone gonna miss Yahoo Answers?

Even though it had a reputation for some stupid questions I prefer Yahoo Answers over other platforms

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 hours ago

    I will. I really only come once in a while, but it's nice to see the questions and answers that come. However, it's been on a decline for years, especially since the transition to Verizon. This was inevitable.

  • 6 hours ago

    Yep.

    The non-serious nature of it is what made it what it is and - I always took its existence for granted since it felt like very low maintenance for Yahoo.

    Robotic overly-moderate sites - including but not limited to ones that base the amount of activity a user can engage in based on the age of their memberships - contradict the very nature of what a message board should be about.

    I do believe some moderation is needed i.e. immediately deleting (if not first reviewing) posts that are simply posted (i.e. graphic material) to share misery and weird stuff like that... but an open-natured message board that allows a wealth of questions and answers is a good thing to me.

    We're all adults.

    We can choose whether or not to visit and/or use a site... but Yahoo thinks otherwise and has made the decision for us. :-(

  • 14 hours ago

    Yahoo VoIP.  Yahoo Messenger.  Now Yahoo Answers.  YES.  I will miss them all.  RIP Yahoo... time to change email servers before they shut THAT down too...

  • wolf
    Lv 6
    19 hours ago

    All good products and services are shut down

    1) Yahoo Groups = Great product (shut down 2020)

    2) Yahoo! Geocities = Great product (shut down 2009)

    3) YahooPageBuilder = Great product (shut down)

    4) Yahoo!Answers = Great product (shut down 2021)

    Now there are only News and Weather

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    it's been worse and worse for a while.  especially after they took away adding comments to answers.  i won't miss it too bad.. maybe i'll try reddit or some other forum

  • .
    Lv 7
    2 days ago

    Disappointed but not surprised. Alas, it's questions like this one (chat violation) that added to the decline of the site.

  • 2 days ago

    I am although it had peaked in 2012 

  • OTTO
    Lv 6
    2 days ago

    I will feel a void. I joined in 2008, went years offline, then began posting in 2020. I have about 21,000 points. I will never see level 7. 

  • Anonymous
    2 days ago

    Just 95% brainless juveniles living in mommy's basement just as with EVERY social media site.

  • Anonymous
    2 days ago

    Yes. I prefer it here over facebook because I can be anon and not judged or attacked personally. 

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