d to a quick answer, don't you think they would have searched themselves? The point of asking the question on Yahoo answers is so that you don't have to go searching on another site for the response, right?
2007-02-21 06:47:45 · 12 answers · asked by SweetPea 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Some of you are pretty nasty, hence my bad rating of you. You are most likely the ones with zero intelligence who can't answer a question, and instead post a link as a response. It was just a question. Get a grip.
2007-02-21 07:07:44 · update #1
Hiya Sweet Pea...I have an answer for you, from my own experience here on Yahoo Answers....sometimes its easier to give the link where you got information than to try to rephrase it. I've found this...when I know, but can't quite explain it? Ya know? If I give a little bit of what I know, then a link, then in my mind its a better, fuller, more accurate answer than just telling someone. Also, I may have been wrong in my own thinking..and looking it up and giving the link is my way of trying to be really truthful.
I know that some questions are pure opinion...and I, and many others I have seen, do just that...give an opinion. But, if someone is asking why is the sky blue? than I am going to tell what little I might know and give a good link in case they want to look it up and get more information than I can provide.
This isn't a great answer, I know...but its the best one I have... :)
2007-02-21 07:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you post a link the person doesn't have to 'search'. The answer is right there. They just have to click.
I think it's very helpful to post a link, especially if it clearly gives an answer. Some answers are to long to sum up. And some people don't want to copy out and shorten a bit from a website, when they can clearly give it to the other person as a link.
What is the problem with a link if the page clearly states your answer. Such as a wiki page. Is it really that more diffucult to read a normal website as a opposed to an answer here?
I thought the point of Yahoo Q's was to ask questions that you can't find the answer to. Not for people too lazy to go looking for the answer, or too lazy to read a website with your answer when it's clearly presented to you. I'd rather be given a website where i can get the information I want, than be spoon-fed it in someone elses summary.
2007-02-21 06:58:00 · answer #2 · answered by Shanti76 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes the person asking the question does not know how to go about in searching for the right website that would directly address his/her question.
I often answer the question briefly and then include the link(s) to the pertinent website(s) in case the questioner would like to get deeper into the subject. Also to show him/her that I did not just pull the answer out of the thin air or that it's just my own opinion alone.
2007-02-21 07:04:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe YOU see that as the point, but maybe the person asking could not find an answer by searching or did not search. people ask things here that they should be able to find themselves, but don't. by giving a site, they don't have to search, they just have to click the link and read. also, giving a link can be easier than typing out an answer or it can prove a point, that the answer they gave is correct. a lot of the questions here seem to be asked by people who don't want to do the work themselves, even though they could.
2007-02-21 06:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont mind getting a link to a website as long as the site contains the info I need. In fact, I asked a question earlier today about converting kg to lbs. and I was given a link to a fabulous website with all kinds of great info. I plan to pick that one as best answer after the 4 hours are up.
2007-02-21 06:57:04 · answer #5 · answered by I know, I know!!!! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haritaji explained the question very well. i fully agree. Except a few, everyone..every member is having multiple ids. i'm not saying it wrong or sin.Having multiple id is not a wrong until the multiple ids used to gain points. This is what y/c guidelines says. That is what Haritaji projected here.The multiple ids can be transformed into a genuine ids simply making it contact. so now a user can award best answer, can have voting, can have starring.i challenge every member in y/a. Have they bold enough to swear that they have only one id in y/a?Everyone is having multiple ids but a few is misusing it and more members operating it separately. You can have a number of ids, no wrong in it until not misused. you can use it for voting and all are doing it.Keeping multiple ids are serious once, but now it is a common. You need not ask to opt out. They can pose the same question to you.You do in your way.Your profile is open.No member can find you wrong since you are doing works here cleanly.
2016-05-24 03:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are obviously answering there question, but we are not lazy and we have the patience to go and look it up on a website, or in my case, I type 74 NWPM and it takes me 10 seconds to ask a 10 word question as oppose to someone who doesn't feel like typing it in on a link and waiting for a response. That's why people put links. Yahoo Answers asks for sources and we give them to them.
2007-02-21 06:56:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When questions require complex and involved answers, although they appear simple on the surface, it is faster and way more efficient to give them the site for the answer. Also, many askers, don't realize what they are asking (that's why they asked in the first place), the site gives them an in-linking to that. Plus why should they spend their time answering a question already answered both on answers and elsewhere on the web?
2007-02-21 06:57:06 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.bored.com
:-)
some links can help, but yeah, I hate the "imdb" answers in the film section.
But the point isn't to be lazy, it's to find out things you can't find yourself. It's easier to do a search than to read through a hundred answers and figure out which is best.
The reason to ask questions here is because the answer doesn't come up in a search engine, or because we don't know how to find it.
2007-02-21 06:55:42 · answer #9 · answered by dude 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Too many people here don't have basic skills to find information on their own. Showing them a web site is one step towards self-sufficiency.
Telling someone how to search, even better, grasshopper.
2007-02-21 06:55:51 · answer #10 · answered by Jay 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋