Do you ever actually ASK a question?

Question

Or do you just answer all the time? Do you see the benefit of asking questions here? Or are you here simply for points? What benefit do you get out of this forum? Are you excited about helping people? Or are you simply "doing what you've always done?"

Answer 1

Yes I do ask questions.

I am asking one now.

Why should I actually ASK a question ?

And about helping people yes, I can help you.
Contact me if you have What it takes for me to help you.
You have no idea what may be there in the bag for you that you may get if you ask me and are genuine.

A small anecdote : Can you fill wine in a cup that is already filled with tea ? No. You got to empty the cup, pour down the tea to get it filled with wine. Otherwise you can not drink wine from that cup.

And about "Doing what you've alwasy done" my answer is I consider the life as an ongoing education. So I always learn and improve. Thus over a time I don't do what I have always done but my responses and actions get improved and are often different due to these improvements.

In this world for anyone at any stage / state the necessary help is always available to each and everyone of us. But often people lack the initiative to ask for the right help from the right SOURCE.
Or they just don't have that judgement or discretion.
May be they just don't have what it takes to ask for the right help from the right source OR they like getting deceived all the times throughout their lives.

Well that's the way the people are and noone can do anything about it.

Answer 2

You know, I think asking questions is important. Knowledge is valuable, and random facts you might think are useless, are usefull. I ask questions. What person in this world hasn't?in school, you ask questions, and even in your job you ask questions. When you hear things that interest you, you can't help but want to know more about it.

Answer 3

I have always been the one who had to do things for himself, learn things for himself, help others, and so on. So, I haven't asked any questions, because; I guess I feel I can find things quicker and be more confident in my information when I do the work myself.

So, yes, I answer all the time.

Of course there is benefit in asking questions, but; it makes you wonder why did they call the site answers and not questions or chat. It is designed to promote answers. I like that.

As for a benefit. There are many. There is the benefit of getting to share what I know. There is the benefit of having something else to do that expresses who I am. There is the benefit of feeling like I am helping others. Of course, there is fun. The list goes on and on.

I can't say excited about helping others but I do get a positive feeling when things help others. I like people to feel better and that does make me feel better.

And I am doing what I always do. I think. That sounds a bit conceded, but; the people I know have already put me up for sainthood on more than one occasion. I take compliments with a grain of salt for that reason.

BTW, if you think about it the only difference between a question and an answer is the certainty with which you speak. How many times have you heard a person answer a question in school or elsewhere and then heard the teacher ask, ""Was that an Answer or a Question?" That is why yahoo expects you to pick the best answer. If they did it then it would be less personal and this is nothing if not personal.

I hope I answered everything for you, or asked everything that you wanted to answer.

Answer 4

I just joined Yahoo! about a week ago. Naturally I needed to know my way around, so I asked a few questions.
After getting the hang of things, I started to answer questions - if I knew the answer, or if I thought I could offer a suggestion. Hopefully I was helping somebody, in either case.

Considering a lot of answers out there, I don't want to waste my time (or the questioner's) by adding something that might already be there - in some form or another - so I give a "thumbs up" to the person whose answer is the closest (or the same) as mine would have been.

Once in a while, I have to answer with a "comeback" - something I just have to throw in, whether it really answers their question or not.

I only think about the points (after I realized what they were all about) when I consider posing a question... can I find the answer someplace else, before I "spend" 5 points on a question that's been done over and over.

Answer 5

I reserve the "asking" for questions which require deliberation. After I have search the net or asked the family and I'm still unsure. I think it is awesome that I can ask a question and have "the world's" opinion at my finger tips.

I get excited when I know the answer to a question because I want to help... it has little to do with the points. Although, I must confess it is self-indulgent... knowing you might have the answer to someone's question makes you feel better...

I come on Yahoo answers late at night before I go to bed. It helps me take my mind of the day's events and remember that there is a great big world out there and we all have problems and questions. It widen's my perception of the world we live in.

Thanks for such a deep question... going to bed now.

Answer 6

I began my relationship with this site by asking several questions. I ceased my involvement with the interrogative section, because I discovered that those possessing either the ability to understand, or perhaps appreciate sardonic humor, were few in number. I am currently limiting myself to answering questions. I occasionally offer a serious reply, but usually try to interject a bit of sophomoric levity, by posting caustic, and outrageous messages. It is my little way of contributing some lightheartedness in a world, and for a race of beings that largely SUCKS!!

Answer 7

i know all are not like me but when given the opportunity i enjoy helping out by answering ? more then asking them mostly because i really have a hard time thinking of anything to ask that is of any importance in my life at this moment. and i usually find the questions i eventually come up with are philosophy or opinion in there nature which to me means i really didn't have to know the answers as much as i just wanted to know them

Answer 8

When I ask, I get a lot of "thumbs down" feedback and users have actually flagged a couple of my questions. Strange, as my questions usually are just for entertainment. I do better answering at this point.

Answer 9

I ask and I answer. I enjoy helping people who are here to really be helped, (of course not the nut jobs asking the weird questions; they either get no answer from me or one only worthy of the question).

Answer 10

Yea, I've asked my share of questions and answered a few now and then as well.

What are points? What do they mean?

Y!A is a game.

Yea, feels good to help out too.

Dont change a thing.