why do people answer questions on this saying they don't know the answer?

Question

seriously! what help are you to people who need help if you answer saying i don't know? STOP point grabbing!

Answer 1

I don't usually I always answer what I think may be of use but sorry to this one I don't know

Answer 2

really, they just want to points. I think sometimes they were gonna say one thing and decided it was stupid (rightfully so usually) and so they end up with, "well, duh, er, uh i dunno" and it makes me want to slap them. Now, point grabbing is justified if it's a stupid question, meant to annoy people, and if it's the wrong category and all that. But try saying something smarter than "I don't know" or "two points for me" like a comeback or SOMETHING. be smart about it. Don't annoy people just because you can. and for goodness sake spell the words right. There's a spell check right there in the corner, it's not hard to use. Grammar doesn't have to be so picky but you should make somewhat of an effort to at least make your answer readable. Unless it's stupid, then no one wanted to read it anyway, don't worry about it. :-P Glad someone else took the chance to blow 5 points on a question everyone was wondering and annoyed.

Answer 3

Sometimes what they say is that they can not understand what the question is in the misspelled butchered fragments of sentences the asker provided. In that case they may as well just poke fun since there is no possible answer.

if they did that on a legit coherent question that would be a problem but it is not the usual case. For those who do it on clear questions you probably would have gotten the same "don't know" from them if you were standing in front of them.

Answer 4

I think they've tried hard to answer an question but it's difficult to find a good answer. Then they decide to say " I don't know!!"
Or 2 points is so good when they don't know the answer.

Answer 5

Because they can.
And yeah, they want the points.

But what about the people who just answer your question with an insult for no reason. I think that should be discussed, so i will now put this up on ask yahoo.

Answer 6

2 get 2 points.

Answer 7

They just want their points. It's annoying esp to the person who asks the question.

Answer 8

i know that it is a pain in the bum have to say that because it blokes out *** but yer when people dont answer your questions the way that you want then you get frustrated and you still dont know what to do :)

Answer 9

Because not everyone on her has sense in their head to actually turn their brain on at least try to fake an answer.

Answer 10

You must have known what most of the answers were going to be, 2pts thank you