Why do you get stupid people answering questions on Yahoo Answers (read on)>>>?

Question

Because all you get is text from Websites like Wikipedia. That is often a copyright violation. Copy-and-pasters frequently get their answers rated as "best answer", earning them 10 points, though an answerer who put some effort in real resarch don't get the reward they deserve.

Answer 1

In human-computer interaction, cut and paste or copy and paste is a user interface paradigm for transferring text, data, files or objects from a source to a destination. Most ubiquitous is the ability to cut and paste sections of plain text. This paradigm is closely associated with graphical user interfaces that use pointing devices.

The term cut and paste derives from the traditional practice in manuscript editing in which paragraphs were literally cut from a page with scissors and physically pasted onto another page. This was standard practice as late as the 1960s. Editing scissors with blades long enough to cut an 8-1/2"-wide page were available at stationery stores. The advent of photocopiers made the practice easier and more flexible.

The cut-and-paste paradigm was widely popularized by Apple in the Lisa (1981) and Macintosh (1984) operating systems and applications. It was mapped to a key combination consisting of a special control key held down while typing the letters X (for cut), C (for copy), and V (for paste). These key combinations were later adopted by Microsoft in Windows. Common User Architecture (in Windows and OS/2) also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Some environments allow cutting and pasting with a computer mouse (by drag and drop, for example).

Answer 2

I don't like that, either. I suppose they can't just put it into their own words, so they read whatever source they got it from, think "couldn't have said it better myself," then do that copy/paste thing. It especially bothers me when the copied answer ends up being an entire essay, only some of which is at all related to the topic at hand. I look at the scroll bar at the side of my screen, see that it's small (indicating that there's lots of text), and I get excited, thinking "yay! Lots of answers!" but instead see one big answer that's been copied and pasted from some crap website, and makes the page needlessly long.

I also hate it in the religion section when people don't actually answer questions, but instead provide bible verses. I mean, it's okay when people ask specifically FOR an answer from the bible, but otherwise, it's just a big waste of space.

Argh.

Answer 3

Well, it kind of makes the asker feel stupid because he could have just looked it up himself. I prefer to send the link, but people who spend the time to copy and paste it are better then people who don't really answer in a helpful way.

Answer 4

youre a dumbass fagpunch. gonna pack you x chromos fudge

Answer 5

so don't give best answer to a cut-n-paster... give it to me.

Answer 6

damn right it's time for a revolution!

Answer 7

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