Amazed by the laziness, and general cluelessness displayed by most Yahoo! answers participants?

Question

It's so addicting, yet sad to see that people are so lazy, clueless, uneducated and completely incapable of the most basic research and self reliance. So many questions show a chronic inability to solve basic problems by oneself. Anyone else see this place as the proverbial trainwreck? (You know, you don't want to look ,but you just can't help yourself?)

Oh, don't forget the inability to correctly compose a coherent question! (oooh! Alliteration!)

Answer 1

Yes. What amazes me more is when these idiotic answers like, "Dude" or "Thanks for the points" win best answer. I am sooo sick of people asking "fake" questions, like "I hate those so and so's???" How is that a question. I think there should be a rule against, or at least limiting the use of links or CandP, and I love it when people supply a link to youtube as a source, after all youtube is known for it's research.(sarcasm) I think another one that should result in termination of an account is when people ask a question, get 15 well researched answers, that go against the person's opinion, then get 1 that says something like, Yes, and then they get BA. 1 person who answered on here asked a question, "I am so mad", now how is that a question????

Answer 2

I have been clueless about many questions but don't usually answer them.

The other questions I asked, like about the Marine Corps, was because I was so interested and had no exposure to the subjects.

You are probably very educated but I am 17 and just trying.


***Oh my goodness*** I read all the time and usually look up everything myself. I don't really ask people for help a great deal. I work in a library part time. Listen, sometimes people give you better answers about human issues and pop culture things than a book or magazine article would. Also, some of the people just need to connect with others and have their opinions validated.***

Answer 3

A major train-wreck is exactly right.

I thought I was fairly pessimistic about human nature but I find, rather depressingly, that I wasn't pessimistic enough.
The spelling, the phrasing, the unbelievable ignorance leading to incomprehensible or unanswerable questions...

"Where was the Korean war fought?"
"Is Robert E Lee dead?"
"In WW2, who came third?"

Or the ones that are being asked for the hundredth time, or could have been answered with a five-second Google. Or both.
But mixed in are the genuine questions and discussions, some of them fascinating.
It's an addictive concoction.
(even if, like a jar in Frankenstein's laboratory, it seems to be steaming and have suspicious things floating on top.)

Answer 4

I admit it's mostly me that you are talking about.

I have given Yahoo answers a bad rep and I apologize. Don't judge all the Yahoo answers participants for the lazy, clueless, uneducated answers, myself and a few others have given.

It was mostly me, so I will accept the rap and slink away to live out my shame. Maybe I'll go over to google or something.

Answer 5

I agree with you a 100%. If they would have had Yahoo! answers when I was 11 or 12, you can bet I would have never learned to research using books or periodicals, never made any effort to use critical thinking or reasoning skills, and I probably would have disregarded what my parents/educators tried to teach me in favor of the advice/opinions of random, anonymous strangers on the web.

How are kids going to write a paper in MLA formatting or compose a bibliography when their only source of information from an early age is a forum like this one?

Just another example of our nation being in a sad, dangerous downward spiral.

Answer 6

Lol, You're right! I have had to dumb myself down in order to get across to others that are clueless to the reality of the world and how it works, socially logically, blah blah. Sadly I find I enjoy being lazy and stupid too, not having to really think in order to make my point. Well, I assume most educated people wouldn't find any benefit from participated on this thing, or people with a life. I admit to not having a life and enjoying laughing at other people's stupidity. I just don't realize that other people could be looking at me and laughing to.

Answer 7

Yep. Good observation.

I guess the point is to not blame yourself.

It is scary. Using internet slang is fine by me, but it's when people obviously don't understand the language that they're trying to abbreviate: "your" instead of "you're", "their" instead of "there" or "they're", etc.

Here's a classic response I had recently: "Your a idiot!"

When people can't even understand their own language, it's no wonder they can't figure out their own simple problems. How can they, if they can't even clearly state to themselves what the problem is in the first place?

Answer 8

God yes. Thanks for saying it. How much more fulfilling is it to be self-reliant? I'm not sure if some questions are a bad quiz, or someone just too dumb to look it up.
It's the general trend in the world: I don't care-ism. Can't spell? That's OK! We won't call you on it and say you're obviously too stupid to use spell-check. Wanna shoot someone? Well, I guess you had your reasons. Talk about going to hell in a handbag. Forget global warming, stupid people are the problem.

Answer 9

Amen Brother

Answer 10

u no wat I reely like iz wen peeple just go on and on 4 ever and don't use sentences or pear a graphs and keep typing and use the cutesy little symbols like 4 and u instead of typing out reel words and they don't use spil chick and they seem 2 want us to answer there questions but they r to hard to reed because of all the mispellings and lack of grammer and all the symbols and they just ramble and ramble and don't understand y no one answers there questions like I reely need to take time out of my life to d-code their typing and if they wood lern to spil and use periods and start a new sentence when they have a new thought and not make everything so hard to reed then may b eye wood take them more serious like.