What are Your Methods For Answering On Yahoo! Answers?

Question

Please explain how you get Best answers and such, and how you do it. Please avoid places one liner. They're kindof annoying.

*What Are your Tactics?
*How Do You Get The Answers?
*What Sites Do You Use?

P.S. Just Wondering. Ill choose the most thorough answer as the best one.

Answer 1

By being honest, quick, and concise. Most best answers that are chosen are chosen within the first five answers.

If the question calls for an opinion there's a 70% chance the questioner doesn't really care of the outcomes and leaves it up to be voted on. Therefore, voters will look not far down the line and choose the one that entertains them most (as they did not ask the question and, as such, do not really care who gets best answer so long as they get the points).

If it calls for facts, the best thing to do is write something fast if it's seen as going to be a quickly populated question, then research and edit with more answers and sources. Since you arrived quickly the person is more likely to see it first when scrolling for best answer and the more informative it can be (no matter how long it took past their original posting time), the better chance to be chosen.

I get the answers from just Google or Wikipedia. If I cannot find what I need, I'll delete the answer or just not answer at all. Most of the time you can get the perfect information by summary headings or a few quick clicks. Having high speed helps too.

Answer 2

I think you just answered your own question. I try to be thorough in my answer, giving a little background if the question involves a historical event or if the history has some bearing on the reasons something is the way it is. I try to cover both sides of the issue as well, if it's a question about something still being debated (although I try to avoid religious disputes, sometimes questions about evolution still get me to answer) Although I'll typically only answer a question I already know something about, I also do research using Yahoo, Google, or Wikipedia to back up the answer I think is correct; doesn't absolutely guarantee that my answer is 100% right, but at least it gives them a reference to check later. Basically, I only answer questions I think are serious, questions that interest me personally, and ones that I think I can give a satisfactory answer to, and I try to be the most help that I can to the person asking the question.

Answer 3

Not completely true, but often the case. Many people hover like vultures on just that first page, looking for new "food"! Others pick a category or subcategory and do the same. Only a few of us tend to wander off into the "hinterlands" of old questions to gnaw the bones there. LOL!!

Answer 4

I base my answers on my own personal life experience and education.

Anyone can google or yahoo search something. I find that answers based on personal experience tend to be more helpful and indepth and that is what the person asking the question is looking for.

Answer 5

What you try and do is answer the best you can, you want to make sure your spelling is good and you want to list some sources or websites to tehre question. All my answers are from my own knowlege. But if they ask how to get something, dont just tell them, give them the hyperlink, they like that.

Answer 6

i use my brain , answer the question as truthfully in my opinion as i can. and i answer the questions the way i would want my questions answered . with alot of caring and thought.

Answer 7

like this!!!!!!!!!