2006-11-27 14:05:50 · 19 answers · asked by hello 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
You should have asked the people who gave thumbs down.
In my opinion,yes. People who marked it a bad question either are haters of Oprah or sincerely feel that it's an unrealistic question.
As for the thumbs down to the answers? You should have asked the people who gave it thumbs down themselves. Either they really abhor the answers or they like to do that all the day.
2006-11-27 14:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by HahaYou'rePwned! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, maybe it was because some people felt offended at the amount of money, since you can do very little good with that amount of money. But if you think about her question, how you answer it tells a lot about you. She is in a way picking your mind to see if you are giving or selfish. Most everyone I know could use and extra $1,000 dollars, especially at this time of the year. But, there are really some very needy people out there. And you can only do so much, even though you might want to help everybody. Even Oprah does not have enough money to help all of the really needy people. But no matter what the reason for her question, rudeness is never appropriate.
2006-11-28 10:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by PegSl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole gist of answers are folks helping other folks - not celebrities turning it into a show - thus, many marked it a bad question, because it doesn't "help" anyone.
Also, some took the opportunity to write reams of answers, obviously hoping to be asked to be on the show - again, taking away from the true nature of yahoo answers.
I didn't mark it a bad question, but I do question Oprah's motives - however, she has donated an incredible amount of money to the causes in which she believes, so perhaps she will pick 1,000 of the best answers and provide those individuals the means to help their perfect stranger.
Most of the questions I answer are in business and finance, trying to help people with investment, savings, and keeping them away from scams. Others help in gardening or health care, whatever their strong point. That's what Yahoo Answers is all about - help from person to person.
2006-11-27 22:22:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the only answer I can think of she said I gave this and that when if you a true christian lady, you don't need to broadcast it so you get a reward. The second reward there were people that thought it might be impostor that post that question, I did not think so, but that does happen with famous people all the time. I think it is Oprah I love regards she is human after all.
2006-11-28 06:23:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only bad question is not asking a question..
but then theres all those bad and inappropriate jokes too... ugh..
I thought it was a good answer.. its Oprah so alot of thumbs up and it was a good q.
Maybe cause they dont like her or offensive or something..
2006-11-27 22:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by SCSA 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I didn't think it was a bad question at all. Seems to me that some of the folks simply don't like Oprah and this was an opportunity to express that. Others may have felt that using answers.yahoo was exploitive and sensational.
If she was not a household name, we all know she wouldn't have gotten over 32,000 responses to date. If she was not a household name, she would not have appeared on the front page for as long as she has.
In any case, I think her involvement was good for the show, good for yahoo and good for the users of answers.
2006-11-28 17:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Nibiru - 3600 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I answered it, but it took a lot of work for me to do, since it's fairly ambiguous.
First of all the question was shown as:
If you were given $1,000 to change the life of a perfect stranger, what would you do?
The key part for that was: "CHANGE THE LIFE OF A PERFECT STRANGER".
But then if you read the body: "So, if you were given $1,000 with the understanding that it had to be used to help others, how would you use the money and why?"
The key part in that one "USED TO HELP OTHERS" (sorry for the caps).
Anyhow. Changing a life can be a completely different thing than helping others. Changing a life could mean taking a whole bunch of kids to a homeless shelter to see what life is like, hoping that some of them will get involved in charity work, etc.
Helping in that instance would be to donate the money directly to the shelter hoping to help them run more programs, etc. etc.
Two completely different things, it was a pretty confusing question all-and-all.
2006-11-27 22:28:42 · answer #7 · answered by jessklinkenberg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering the odds...the marks are not bad. With millions of users and viewers regularly..I think its just handful of grumps. I do think Oprahs ambition was to spurn participation and to stimulate people to think about giving. Whether she intends to put people on the show I have no idea. I participated and I have no interest whatsoever of getting on the show. I believe that Oprah participates in deciding who and what her show will cover and well to keep a show interesting you have to do different things.
2006-11-27 23:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by toephu@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oprah isn't who she used to be. I used to really like Oprah, but not anymore. She has really changed. Perhaps lots of other people feel the same. who knows?
2006-11-27 23:10:50 · answer #9 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i didnt give it a thumbs down, but i have to say i couldn't even change my life with $1000.00. as i put in my answer, i would take it to a home less shelter and feed those people well, i would spend my time with them and listen to there storeries and try to understand how a person in the USA can find there selfs in that kind of predicament. i wonder if Oprah could change a persons life with $1000.00.... HELL NO
2006-11-28 00:25:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋