Yahoo Answers

[Scarlett]

I've just had a look on there, and it seems to be a really good system. You can only post a certain amount of times per day, you earn points and people can vote you up (or down) a score board. It seems like it gives more of an incentive to respond properly. How many times have I opened an email to find a response to my question as "LOL!" or some other piece of personal chat. Also people seem to make an effort to answer seriously, in order to gain points. Maybe have a look at it and see if AB could use some of their ideas?

[ummmm]

Ed has been trying for months to discourage 'chat' from anywhere on the site besides 'ChatterBank' It is slowly sinking in...

[atalanta]

I have had a bad experience on Yahoo answers, which I suggest you bear in mind. I have a great deal of wisdom, I have had jobs, both in UK and abroad, where I have had to research information in the fields of medicine, law, social sciences, history, literature and languages. I have brought up my childen to adulthood. I used to put up a large number of answers on Yahoo, based on that wisdom and experience, and gained rather a lot of "points". Until some questioner took umbrage at a well-deserved answer, "reported" me, and got me "judged" by what I could only assume to be some nekulturniy teenage male probably younger, less experienced and less intelligent than my own sons. This " judge" did not choose to ask me what I meant, but took the complainer at his word and "punished " me. I was deeply insulted by such offensive and arbitrary treatment, and have removed my wisdom from Yahoo ever since. And, believe me, there are plenty of people on Yahoo answers who could do with it.

[Azalian]

The average age of questioners on YA seems to be about 13 and the average IQ seems like "room temperature"