Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the UK & Ireland site, yeah? I'm tired of seeing UK askers getting "Try Wal-Mart" and "What State are you in..?" type answers.
Can't they just click on the stars and stripes at the bottom of the page and go back to where they came from?
2006-10-28 23:22:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Oh yes - I know that my avatar is of an American person. So? Doesn't mean I have any intention of using the US site, does it?
2006-10-28 23:25:43 · update #1
Well I am American and I LOVE using the UK site...I love seeing your different opinions of us. Do you not have Wal-Mart in the UK? But some people are just ignorant in asking "what state are you in" on your site.
2006-10-29 02:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by ღღღ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of you have proven yourself idiots. And the majority of us are supposed to know you're from the UK or Ireland, how? The sites url is answers.yahoo.com not answers.yahoo.uk so it's not as if it is blatantly obvious where you're located. What is obvious is that Yahoo connected its yahoo answers website from the U.S. along with the ones from other countries who's official language is English. Most of the Americans here go to their homepage and click the Yahoo Answers link to be directed here. If you don't like the answers or are tired of the answers we give, sign off and never come to the site again or deal with it and stop complaining. After all, Yahoo is an American company. This sounds like a problem you need to take up with Yahoo anyhow. I absolutely love how the crybabies that were targeted in our responses will now go up and down these posts giving the "thumbs down". Oh woe is me. [/sarcasm] Some of you are a little on the slow side. You do NOT have to click on the American flag at the bottom of the page to be directed to the American site. How hard is it to understand that?
2006-10-29 06:38:54 · answer #2 · answered by trafficjams 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I am surprised some people can power up their computers.
As you say, there are a series of flags along the bottom of the screen, as you say, they can choose to answer exclusively from their country. If they chose to answer all English questions then a little cultural sensitivity is called for as they will not know which English speaking country the question is from.
If people want to give country specific answers - eg Wal-Mart and State specific laws then they must surely click on the USA Questions only on the left of the home screen half way down.
I frequently check this when answering questions to try and give culturally sensitive answers. I am not xenophobic and am happy to give and accept advice from all over the world, however we should be culturally senstive to each other.
2006-10-29 10:11:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have suggested to the following to Yahoo:
Subject: Suggestion for Improvement
Questions Specific to UK & Ireland.
Its extremely frustrating to see UK
specific questions (asked on Yahoo UK
& Ireland!) being answered by (well
meaning) Americans who then proceed to
answer with irrelevant answers & who
I then suspect will often give the
correct answers the thumbs down.
Can I suggest that you have a system
of tags that would allow questions
to be marked UK Specific, US Specific
etc. - this would significantly cut
down on the number of erroneous
answers.
It seems the problem arises because
the US Answers page defaults to All
English Questions instead of USA Questions.
I used the 'Tell us what you think' link at the bottom of the page
EDIT: trafficjam...this is what us 'idiots' see...note UK & Ireland Answers! http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/
PS THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON AMERICANS....IT'S A SUGGESTION FOR AN IMPROVEMENT TO THIS SITE...sorry for shouting it’s just that some of you seem to think it’s xenophobia :)
2006-10-29 06:34:53 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Crusty 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hmm thats the beauty of sites like Yahoo Answers, anyone can use them, even if you dont like it. If it bothers you that much dont use Answers, or would you like the whole of the internet tailored to exactly the way you'd like it?
You may very well think that your view is so important and that the world centres entirely around you but unfortunately (for you) it doesn't.
I dont see any American people on here saying 'why is their an exclusively UK Yahoo - Yahoo is after all an American company'
People often accuse the Americans of being insular (look it up) and not even realising theres a world outside the borders of their country, never thought i'd see that attitude from a Brit.
Find something more valid to worry your miniscule mind with, there are people dying of hunger in the world right now and you're bothered about Americans using a UK site, I wish i were that urbane and sophisticated.
2006-10-29 06:35:36 · answer #5 · answered by thecoldvoiceofreason 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yeah very good point. I have thought this since the beginning of this forum. Sometimes it really annoys me when i post a question and an American replies to it which has nothing to do with what i am talking about in the UK. Why don't Americans use their own country's forum or is it just that they love to poke their noses into other countries business?
Americans reading this and this question, please answer on here, WHY?
2006-10-29 06:32:33 · answer #6 · answered by english_rose10 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
get over it if you dont like the answer or it doesnt apply to you or you cant use it THEN DONT... and in my "american" defense i didnt GO TO a UK Ireland site at least i didnt mean to so sorry to "INVADE"
in addition wisdom is universal open your mind and start learning... maybe other people (even *god forbid* in other countrys) might teach you something
what good is the internet if not to LEARN and CONNECT with other people... no matter where they are from????
now i am going to go smoke a *** and try to calm down... lmao
this is in the e-mail yahoo sends for "Yahoo Answers:
Go ahead, post your question. With a community from all over the planet, it's like asking the world's biggest think tank.
should i highllight some things for you?
2006-10-29 06:37:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I get to this from my US Yahoo page by clicking on Yahoo! Answers at the top of my US Yahoo! homepage. I have no idea where it originates at.
If Yahoo! choses to only maintain this site in the UK&Ireland servers, there really isn't much I can do about that. I suspect it's not on the UK&Ireland servers...unless they have lots of room on those servers.
I suggest you contact Yahoo! and ask that they put a US Yahoo! Answers on a US server, and restrict the UK&Ireland folks to UK servers......in the interest of international peace, of course.
Addendum: It's nice to see ignorance and snobbery isn't exclusively American. My thanks to those of you Brits who have made me proud to be an American, by being so much of both. To those of you who answered this with the same bit of annoyance I had....thank you! It's also nice to see sense exists elsewhere as well.
2006-10-29 06:33:41 · answer #8 · answered by Kaia 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's probably just the CIA looking for terriosts, I'm not going to worry 2 much about it, as i'm off on my holidays to a summer camp in Pakistan....
2006-10-29 06:52:08 · answer #9 · answered by ohwiseone 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
unfortunately their "language" is broady based on English. Their vocabularies, although severely limited, consist of English words that they have appropriated for their own use.
Therefore Yahoo lump us all together. Actually I used to mind, now I just think it's funny. They are good people, just ignorant. Give them a break. They ARE our friends you know. We shouldn't hurt their feelings like this.
2006-10-29 06:50:23 · answer #10 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋