Comments on: 5 Golden Rules to Answering

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:12:48 +0000

I agree… People need to read the guidelines… I’ve seen a lot of problems in the pets/dogs secton, horrible answers and advertisements too… I love answers!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:34:37 +0000

I think that it is great that you have community guidelines to help people when they ask or answer questions. I still notice that some profanity is used and people do not answer the question to help the person but only to score points. I agree with Jims that you should do away with the points system.

By: bhaarathi bhaaskaran chennai India

bhaarathi bhaaskaran chennai India — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:41:45 +0000

U may kindly include 2 more rules. 1) Let answers be crisp and clear. Explanation to an answer need not be given. 2) Let the answer be one which does not direct the asker to go in search of some other source.May everyone remember that AN UNQUESTIONED ANSWER IS NO MATCH TO AN UNANSWERED QUESTION. -bhaarathi bhaaskaran Chennai India

By: Jims

Jims — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:38:23 +0000

For Yahoo Answers to truly be a community, it must be community policed. By this I mean that reports of misuse, apeals,etc. should be decided on by the YA community, not a hireling, who perhaps, has no expertise in the appropriate field.
Do away with the points system, and you will eliminate trolls and point gamers.

By: ＡＮａｎｎｙＭｏｏｓｅＩＩ

ＡＮａｎｎｙＭｏｏｓｅＩＩ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:13:41 +0000

¶ I may not know the answer, if the question requires searching online to find the best place to find the answers, if I can not find a related answer, then I will leave be. I could come back and try again within the time limit, spending hours to find nothing or little is too much sometimes, but it may take a few days to find the one item, then the computer crashes, whoa…
¶ Agree that answers could be polite and positive, no foul language please, though note some words are in the dictionary, and while some negative terms are allowed, others are *asterisked out,
¶ Spelling can be tricky, even with spell checker here, that sometimes the word is overlooked, and have notice periodically that checker ignores red underline words when right or wrongly spelled, too many pages and flash / java types ads, conflict with editing,

¶ sms (Short Message Service) vs url (Uniform Resource Locator) acronyms Ｉ♥ＮＹ , hmmm…

¶ Going off topic does occur, sometimes it is not related to question, but related to part of the answerers answer, through search or personal
¶ Link to existing sources is easy enough, some older archived answers with links may be obsolete now years layer, or the directory, it may be good to place name of the link , so if link error occurs, the company or actual name is listed and re-search-able,
¶ have a nice day:)

By: Spiffer1

Spiffer1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:27:21 +0000

The improvements you have made are massive. It has been my intent to bring some ethical discussion or thought into my answers to some questions, of a sort which are now far less likely to appear on the site.
In the religion and spirituality along with the political categories of questions, I still notice some ad hominem remarks both in questions and answers. Also, there are some sexist, racist and universalist remarks made about particular groups of people in a stereotypical fashion. I often ask for statistical or empirical evidence of statements of questioners when answering, saying without such I cannot make an informed answer.
While rules may not apply in these cases, perhaps, we need to remind those asking and answering to remember the feelings of others and that people different from ‘us’; racially, politically, religiously, etc. can be just as smart as the ‘we’ are.
Again, keep up the good work.