Where do these points come from?

Question

I mean: yahoo! gives you 10 points for this and 2 points that. Where do these points come from? Is there a points factory in Wolverhampton, or somewhere?

It's true these points exist and they didn't exist last year, say. So, really, where DO they come from?

I know they come from Yahoo! Where does bl**dy Yahoo! get them from?

Arwen, the answer to your question is 'Yes.'
But that doesn't necessarily mean it is a picture OF me.

Answer 1

it comes from the point system in the sky - who b****** cares.
get a grip on real things.
by the way donkey has anyone ever told u - u look like jools holland? now play me a song on your piano.

Answer 2

The points are manufactured, in small factory just outside Beijing in China.
They are then shipped to Hong Kong, and then flown to the UK, USA and all other countries that participate in Yahoo Answers.
From there, they are distributed accordingly.
The Wolverhampton factory was closed down last year as they were unable to produce the points in a large enough quantity.

Answer 3

These points have always existed. They are actually small particles that were leftover from the hydrogen bombs Xenu used to control overpopulation. They have been orbiting the earth for thousands of years. Prior to the hole in the ozone layer getting so big, it was much more difficult to harvest them. Now they are just falling through into a large vat at Yahoo world headquarters. Thus they can freely give points to anybody with a keyboard.

Answer 4

Thank you for being so brave to ask the question. I have pondered upon this very same query myself, but have been too scared to make my views public, for fear of being apprehended then tortured into silence by a yahoo hit man! I have come to the conclusion that yahoo are making up these points out of thin air! They don't really exist, yahoo are taking us all for a ride! Oh no! someone's knocking at my door already!

Answer 5

I can't believe how many people got this wrong.
The points come from schools. This is how it works:

Teachers grade papers, and the kids get wrong answers, so the teachers write -2, -5 and so on.
Some Yahoo obsessive compulsive collected these negative numbers and NEEDED to make them positive so there was more positive energy than negative.
Thee was no factory needed, since they were not manufactured.

Answer 6

At Yahoo they have a room filled with people who work at night rolling string into balls and when they get a certain number of balls they put them in a wheelbarrow roll down the hall to a room full of people who pull the string out of those balls all day long. Now each round trip of the barrow and they get a coupon. They accumlate coupons until they have 5000 and then they take them to a small corner of the Yahoo central where they trade them in for points. There you have it.

Answer 7

Blanzer is wrong. The toothfairy has absolutely nothing to do with yahoo points. The toothfairy, toothfairies, there are far more than one of them, deal with teeth and teeth only. Don't you think they've got enough to do without going round distributing points as well as picking up other people's grotty teeth?

Everyone knows yahoo points come from the points fairies, a multinational charity that's even bigger than the toothfairies.

Answer 8

From the programming of yahoo answers some programmer made a program that gives points

Answer 9

They have a pipe filled with 1's and 0's, that comes from a 1 & 0 well, deep, deep underground. It feeds the precious baby machines until they get big and strong enough to gather points from the forest.

DUH!

Answer 10

They've moved the factory to Bangalore, as even the Eastern European workers get minimum wage here.