Can Yahoo Religion & Spirituality do something to limit the length of answers received?

Question

Some people just paste pages and pages of stuff that needs to be scrolled through..it is excessive and if yahoo could limit answer length as it does for questions it would be a great help by forcing people to be a little more concise...what do you think?...(keep it brief)

It is a particular problem here in Religion & Sprituality because of the temptation to paste reams of scripture instead of providing a thought out answer.

Answer 1

"Anything worth saying can be said in five minutes."
- Andy Rooney

Limiting posts to a reasonable length, say 1500 words, would force people to write better. Concise is always better than voluminous.

I would hazard a guess that's the reason for no limit: the illiteracy and ignorance of so many. Isn't it funny how those with the emptiest arguments - the religious - post the most words?

Answer 2

Good question and I read every answer and did see good in all of them.

I also at times do skip through or get tired of scrolling through some of the bible scriptures since I have a bible right beside me and I can read it. I wish they would just give verse number and stop there. However I do accept I am not the boss here and as I do have freedom I must give freedom.

I do agree that most answers to me do seem to lack a lot of reasoning and yes I think [in my opinion] many verses quoted are too far from the answer but who knows mind of the one who does answer. I can not see his thoughts or seem to relate to them. Maybe the problem is in me and not in the one who did give the answer ha ha .

My friend I did read that a Great Man once said. Let your answer be Yes or no for any more than that may lead to sin. Ha Ha I wonder if some others have read that item?

Do have a great day and do smile as you try to rate a best answer ha ha

Answer 3

No, Yahoo will not close it down. yet you're good. I used to go back right here oftentimes. back interior the days per chance 2006 or so I used to love it. even if it truly is so old. it truly is the similar old crap. it truly is little more beneficial than a acceptance contest. Atheists only use it as a probability to work out what number circumstances they could use the be conscious evidence, and they are starting to be into this mob mentality of closed mindedness it truly is imperceptible except seen from the exterior. they're going to justify it with the chant of "there is not any evidence" believing that their position is the purely rational one and they're going to respond to questions like yours with "in case you don't like it then go away, it truly is our type and we dominate it so neener neener neener you won't be able to offer up us". in case you ask them why they are being such d*cks they are going to say "because Christians favor to eliminate our rights, supply up evolution interior the school rooms, supply up gays from being gay, etc" yet then they flow and take it out on all Christians, mutually with the vast majority of which settle for evolution and gay rights. Theists do have a tendency to be particularly a lot less arrogant and condescending, seeing as how they are the minority on those forums yet they oftentimes do a touch undesirable interest of answering the genuinely questions that the atheists pose. it truly isn't any interesting, and that i used to love the trolls yet they have gotten stressful via now to boot. i do not recognize why I nevertheless come right here. habit i guess. I oftentimes only come and seem at some questions which only make sure my earlier opinion that this kind is crap, then go away without posting something. each and every of the various sorts that are not overrun with opinionated loud mouthed idiots are ghost cities and get like one question each and every quarter-hour or so, or maybe a lot less solutions. Over 1/2 the solutions that those questions get are not even solutions they are only hyperlinks to web content, people breaking the regulations utilising solutions to generate hits to their internet web site.

Answer 4

i think that if someone legitimately needs to make a lengthy point, they shouldn't be prevented from doing so. especially in religion and spirituality, where most points that are worth making are complex. how many millions of pages have been written on this topic over the years?

but i agree that cutting and pasting is obnoxious, especially if it's the same answer cut and pasted multiple times from one question.

Answer 5

EarthAngel,
you know what? I agree with you that some posts are ridiculous. I asked a yes or no question and one person posted what appeared to be a novel.

But you know what? I don't even read them. If they want to paste long, long pages from some other site, no 10 points because I am not reading it.

Now someone who puts thing's in their own words, and sticks to the topic intelligently, they can post long, I will read it.

Answer 6

Post this on the forums or on the yahoo answers part of yahoo answers.

Don't forget to give me 10 points

I hear ya man.

Answer 7

Yeah, I see the need for it. They put restrictions on everything else, like your profile, blog and info...there probably should be something on here too. If you want to get into that much depth about a subject, you can always email the person.

Answer 8

If it's too long for you to read, skip it, and go somewhere else. Why do people have to find fault with everything or nothing. Just find another answer to read and be happy.......

Answer 9

You make a good point, but I doubt they can do so beyond, say, limiting the letter count. Not everything worthwhile can be said in two thousand letters, but we can try.

Thanks for asking.

Answer 10

If I knew how do it, I would have cut and pasted the whole Bible as a joke, lol