Why do people answering questions?

Question

Copy and paste a whole load of waffle from Wikipedia?? Is it due to the fact they dont really know. I dont know about anybody else but, I dont even bother reading an answer when some has used wikipedia!

Chubby your so not funny.

HappyHarry - what i'm saying is what is wrong with a short but sweet answer? If I wanted to know the history of a fart, where it comes from and where it goes, then I would go and look else where. What I want from here is peoples opinions or experiances on how they dealt with a situation.

Answer 1

Because they don't know the answer and look it up, but aren't intelligent enough to edit it so it looks like they did it themselves, and I agree they put the lot in which isn't needed.

They get the best answer a lot though which is infuriating.

Answer 2

I cut and paste a lot of things that I have in my little textpad, but they are things I have already written myself. I see people asking the SAME question OVER AND OVER again, so sometimes its just easier to cut and paste.

I dont know why people have to ask a question if they can just find out from wikipedia. I usually cut and paste things from wikipedia if the person wants a specific DEFINITION. Sometimes the definition from wiki is much better than what a person can use his own words on.

If a person has to ask a question that they can look up themselves, then I dont know why they should get penalized for doing the lookup FOR you. They actually took the time to look up the answers for you, so why is that so bad?

When i cut and paste something, I make sure its a solution to the problem. If my solution is vague, its because the question was vague.

EDIT: When it comes to technical computer questions, cut and paste is necessary. Because the answer is the answer...its a computer FIX so it will work or not work. When its about where a fart comes from, I would just answer that myself...actually if I saw that question, I would probably not answer it at all LOL

Answer 3

Question answering

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Question answering (QA) is a type of information retrieval. Given a collection of documents (such as the World Wide Web or a local collection) the system should be able to retrieve answers to questions posed in natural language. QA is regarded as requiring more complex natural language processing (NLP) techniques than other types of information retrieval such as document retrieval, and it is sometimes regarded as the next step beyond search engines.

QA research attempts to deal with a wide range of question types including: fact, list, definition, How, Why, hypothetical, semantically-constrained, and cross-lingual questions. Search collections vary from small local document collections, to internal organization documents, to compiled newswire reports, to the world wide web.

Closed-domain question answering deals with questions under a specific domain (for example, medicine or automotive maintenance), and can be seen as an easier task because NLP systems can exploit domain-specific knowledge frequently formalized in ontologies.
Open-domain question answering deals with questions about nearly everything, and can only rely on general ontologies and world knowledge. On the other hand, these systems usually have much more data available from which to extract the answer.

Answer 4

So what you are saying is that you don't really want to know the answer to the question you are asking?
My answer is: Do a search for your question on yahoo search or wikipedia before you ask the question here. It will save you some non-reading of the answers.

Answer 5

I have to disagree about chubby. That was funny though a bit obvious.

I find it helpful to read links and excerpts that are posted. If i can't be bothered it doesn't really hurt to scroll past them.

One person's waffle is another person's wisdom.

Answer 6

I will only copy and paste if it is short and to the point and ALWAYS refernce it with the link. Otherwise I summarise it and put in the link to reference it.

Answer 7

Because some people don't click links for fear it will do something to their computer. Therefore, they cut & paste the info for the scaredy cats.

Answer 8

i dont read it either the ppl sendn it prob dnt either keep the answers short an sweet

Answer 9

Yes I agree its annoying because half the time it doesn't answer the question. (Close but no cigar!)

Answer 10

i know it annoys me too...scrolling for ages to get past the crap....why the hell dont they just put a link