Ok, many of us have been here for over a year now......?

Question

What was your favorite yahoo! Answers moment?

How in the world do I choose a best answer??

I love all of these memories with you guys. This is why I've stayed here for a year.

All of you are just simply amazing. Thank you for being here and making this place so much fun! Ok.... shall we vote? Cause I couldn't possibly choose one best answer. They are all spectacular!!

Answer 1

So many moments over the last year, I can't keep track of them all. Two immediately sprang to mind though when I read your question.

The first one was when you achieved Level 7 status, and were then promptly suspended for your chatty (music lyric) questions. And unlike Jimbo...they reinstated you toot sweet after a whole ton of people emailed Answers on your behalf.

The second one was when this place still had that "new car smell" on it (now it smells like it needs a good Febreeze), and there was that "gang" of like minded individuals we all hung around with. Some are still around, but most have kinda faded away...such is life.

Answer 2

Hmm...doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Got almost two months before I hit my first Falcoversary on Answers, but there have been shedloads of great moments. I remember the first time I unveiled the true sadness of my sci-fi geekdom, answering Monitorhead's question about the best sci-fi baddie ever. He gave me best answer for a fairly obscure choice (Davros, from Doctor Who). Felt all warm and geeky at that one.
All the banter about you and I being Nemeses, and poor Phil the Goatboy wondering whether it was serious. Miss that dude something chronic, he was great fun.
The moment when I read some of Off My Meds' questions and just knew he was my kinda nutter. Lad's been kind enough to read some of my writing since then, and is ridiculously kind about it's shortcomings.
Making it onto the Mariannation - I felt so warm and fuzzy having been offered the job of Jester to the Queen.
Discovering the word "verklempt" when you used it in comment to one of my answers. Still have no clue what it means, but a great sounding word :o)
Discovering the fabness of Sharky was another serious high point, and recently, getting to grips with some of Pangel's metaphysical and social queries. If you haven't met this one, you should - she's a font of incredible fairness, quite puts me to shame :o)

A horrible moment of course was the ending of Ivy. But I was proud of the community for its tributes in the sadness of the time.

I know what Monitorhead means by the "new car smell" the place used to have, and how perhaps now it's getting a little whiffy. But I have faith that as the old cohorts grow wiser and the new bring their enthusiasm to the mix, the best times of Answers is not then, or only now, but every day we come and share and bother to have fun. The best, I think, is yet to come...

Answer 3

Like others, I also feel that there is not a single favorite moment here. Let me see...
I was featured, and that was nice :-)
I met a bunch of fantastic, kind, intelligent, caring people, and some of them are still around, and very close even though we're continents apart.
I've been trying to help YA become better since those days, and in some cases I may have helped.
Finding yours, Patz's, HC's and CW's questions were great moments. As I said before, fun and intelligence hand in hand. And answering some of those was very insightful.

If I have to choose one "moment", I'll take a long one: the first trimester of 2006, when we felt like a community, sharing something that was "ours" and still small.

Answer 4

This is really an easy one for me. I answered a question submitted by ecogeek4ever. She asked if anyone could give her an opening line for a poem. She said she was having writers block and needed a jump start to break her silence. I answered by asking what kind of subject she might have in mind. Then I supplied her with 4 or 5 different ideas at random. She ended up giving me best answer and told me to check out her blog. I checked it out and she had used one of my ideas for the opening line of an awesome poem. She even went so far as to name me in the poem as well! It was the most rewarding best answer I have ever received. Just reading her creative words and knowing I had a small part that I contributed made me feel great. Sometimes you don't know if your answer is really listened to or even really considered. Well, this time there was no doubt that I had helped somone and in the process I was rewarded twice. The ten points of course, but also the fact of knowing I indeed made a small difference.

Of course starting a 360 on here was another great moment as well. I have met some wonderful people on here, including you. I am thankful for all those that I have met on here. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I forgot. Here is a link to what I was talking about.....

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqIF.zPzfcRAo8Vr9OyS3HHsy6IX?qid=20070123153926AAAoW5W&show=7#profile-info-d7e22e0ad840abd3bdc02c081ba803dcaa

She picked "Time is a Boundary" You can find the poem still in her blog with the same title.

Answer 5

I have.. in some form or another. Seen many people come and go.. come back again then just to leave us once more. And there's those of us that just won't quit... or maybe it's just me. I really don't know what it is about this place that keeps me occupied. It's a colossal waste of time. It's kinda like watching a Pauly Shore movie.

Oh a favorite moment... Well it was after my 5th suspension... or was it my 6th... hmmm coulda been #4 actually... yeah #4 I'm sure. No wait because I think it was while i was NRA4EVR and that was #4 right? You're my historian you should know! Anyway, it was when I posted "How can I get these fags off my lawn?" and I got suspended once again and the troops tried to rally behind me to get me back on. Oh wait I think it worked. Ah hell I can't even remember at this point.

Do I get any special prize for being mentioned in like 5 other peoples' favorite moments?

Answer 6

I've been here for 7 months now, and have way too many great moments to pick a favorite. So instead, I will offer a moment that made me laugh like I haven't in years:

It had been a great day in the P&S Pub, with everyone seemingly in a good mood. All of the regulars were in attendence at some point throughout. Some clown comes up with the question: "I challenge any Polls & Surveys idiot to a fistfight...WHO WANTS SOME?" I was laughing so hard that I had to leave the office for a few minutes. I was actually crying...

While this is not my favorite Yahoo moment, or most memorable, I chose it because there are too many to single out just one.

Answer 7

Oh ,it's so hard to tie it down to one moment cause I was on a big giddy wave for about 6 months and it's hard to pay attention when you're giddy.
It started about a month after I came here and fell across a question by Jimbo. After I stopped laughing I answered it then started checking out the other respondents questions. Till then I'd never much realized that some of the questions in my head were not as silly as they seemed. I think we found certain inspiration in each others questions and answers too. I loved, for example, Monitorheads questions asking why Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin and other comedians weren't funny anymore. He asked this about 4 guys in a row. Jimbo then asked why Monitorhead wasn't as funny as he used to be. It was just that sort of thing all the time.
Making level 6 was anticlimactic to making level 5 as I was having so much fun.

Answer 8

Well to make a short story long.... I've not been in Answers for quite a year, but here goes.... I started answers as a way to try and get some real input to help me help my bi-polar hubby. That part didn't go so well, but I realized that this was a kinda fun place. So I made up an cartoonish avatar and decided to hang around for a bit. I am somewhat of an observer so it didn't take long to realize that there were some participants on here who were just SOOOO much more fun than others. I'm not going to name names, cause YOU know who they are and WERE. So.... I started really hard to ask and answer questions that were good enough to get their attention. Then, one day the "master" of question asking awarded me Best Answer! Then not long after, the "queen" of YA began to seem to notice me too, along with her "sidekick". I was IN!!!! YAY!!!

Answer 9

In April it will be a year for me. What fun! And at times what misery?
I suppose my first big moment was when I got Best Answer. I was so thrilled. The next thing for me was when YA deleted questions of mine. I was so upset at that. Silly me!
Since then I've developed a bit of a harder skin.
I don't let idiots get to me anymore.

The best of course are the insane questions and even more insane answers. Rip roaring funny. That is what is the best about YA and making friends of course.

Answer 10

I don't think there has actually been a 'moment' that I could classify as my favorite. I suppose the one thing that I absolutely loved was when my questions were seeked out by a few people. I felt like people actually found something to like in my questions. That really meant a lot to me. I wasn't asking in the shadows of a 'nobody' anymore but I was known by a select few. That was really nice. It still does feel nice when certain people seek out my questions to answer.

And I really love the few people I've gotten close to on here. They really make it worthwhile. They give me a reason to stick around...

Answer 11

When I had that Sally Field's moment at the Oscars feeling. " Some of you like me. You really like me." I liked reading the whimsical as well as the serious. From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monitorhead's tampon soldier story has to be up there as well as the Sanitizer describing spending an evening with his 26 year old son at a Phillies game drinking a beer( oops, forgot, he no longer drinks) and eating a Bratworst. Perhaps, it was coming back from the Yahoo answers grave and reconnecting with those who knew me as enzyme 304. It was good to know that you could still recognize me by my inane answers. Hearing from you and others is always a favorite moment.