Whats the point?

Question

Whats all this about eh? you can find the answer to questiong with a search engine,This is a waste of time!

Answer 1

The points make to you more answers,questions,voting and rating questions and answers, depends on level you have, go to this link from Yahoo Answers to know all about limits and systems in this site:
http://answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_system
Level 1 from 1 - 249 points
You need 250 - 999 points to get to level 2
You need 1,000 - 2,499 points to get to level 3
You need 2,500 - 4,999 points to get to level 4
You need 5,000 - 9,999 points to get to level 5
You need 10,000 - 24,999 points to get to level 6
You need 25000+ points to get to level 7

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At level 1 You can ask 5 questions and answer 20 question and vote, rate 20.
At level 2 You can ask 10 questions and answer 40 question and vote, rate 40.
At level 3 You can ask 15 questions and answer 60 question and vote, rate 60.
At level 4 You can ask 20 questions and answer 80 question and vote, rate 80.
At level 5,6,7 You can ask and answer unlimited of questions and vote, rate 100.
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Points Table:
- Answer a question give you 2 points
- Ask a question reduce from you 5 points
- If you answer picked as best answer get 10 points
- Choose an best answer from your question get 3 points.
- Rate answer 1 point
- Vote answer 1 point
- If your answer in violation reduce from you 2 points
- Deleting an answer Reduce 2 points
- Receive a "thumbs-up" rating on a best answer that you wrote 1 point.
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You're Welcome.

Answer 2

You can't find opinions on a search engine without taking forever to find it. You can't learn new stuff on search engines because you would have to have the thought already there. Here you read question that just open your mind and it forces you to learn something new or see things from other points of view. That is of course if you let it. Also this is interactive... you get many different explanations to your questions so you will be able to understand something within minutes instead of going through multiple pages on search engines tying to figure it out

Answer 3

What is the point of Yahoo! Answers? Hmm... communication, and notably an even more distant communication than chat rooms allow for you don't generally make friends and speak, you just give your answer out to the people.

And I'm so... yeah, lonely, and so scared of losing myself in other people that I come home from the nightclub alone, and this is a constructive way, for me, of reaching out to people and making me feel clever and powerful. In a way I hate it or maybe it's just alcohol I hate but, either way, it's much more than a search engine. Or is that what human beings are... search engines? No, so much more/I don't know x

Answer 4

Well, the point could be that someone else may have an interesting take on an idea that a search engine would overlook. Like, personal experience. If this is so lame why did you post a question?

Answer 5

Hey, this is free and its live entertainment lol and if you do have a question, its nice to get another opinion from someone who has had a similar experience. Its not all bad, so go on, and give it a try.

Answer 6

The point is its fun company if you're home sick, on vacation and it's pouring rain, lonesome, suicidal, or whatever! There's a lot of great people here, and I like them. The weirdos are fun, too.

Answer 7

This is what we all do after the third beer, in our own kitchen, playing cards with the neighbors.

But this way, we have a much bigger croud.

Answer 8

The point is an exchange of opinions and view points.

Answer 9

Not wasting alot of time!

Answer 10

If you try answering some more questions instead of asking stupid ones you might find it more productive.