Does it annoy you.......?

Question

When you ask a question and someone looks it up on wikipedia and copies and pastes a mile long answer?

It irritates me. I don't even read them if they are like that.

Answer 1

YESS!!!! all u want is a simple to the point answer!! you can read easily. Most people aren't stupid & can look up anything. usually people look for an answer that someone has experienced the problem or knows a simple solution to help you out. I've seen a whole page used for this. It is very irritating-thanks for thinking so too!! xoDonnaP

Answer 2

Depends on the question. I think a lot of times, questions shouldn't even be asked if the answer is that simple to find, and I think that's what those people are trying to get across.

But if you're looking for something that's more than the obvious answer, make sure yous ay it in your question so people won't do that to you. Good luck!

Answer 3

They do it on purpose. Wikipedia Girl and Wikipedia boy are just here to annoy us. That is why I give them thumbs down.

Answer 4

yea, i hate that crap

Crap is a slang word meaning literally 'feces', and is mostly used to mean either this, or alternatively, 'of low, but could be, on occasion, viewed as strongly vulgar by means of scatological and sensory-provoking use of the word.

In its latter meaning it also connotes inaccurate, of little factual substance, lies, hype, or quackery.

The word is used nearly interchangeably with "****" and considered by many people to be the less offensive of the two. Still, some people find the word crap offensive, even if not intended to mean feces, and will use the minced oath more appropriate word, "crud" instead.


[edit] Etymology
The word "crap" is old in the English language, one of a group of nouns applied to discarded cast offs, like "residue from renderings" (1490s) or in Shropshire, "dregs of beer or ale", meanings probably extended from Middle English crappe "chaff, or grain that has been trodden underfoot in a barn" (c. 1440s), deriving ultimately from Late Latin crappa, "chaff".

The word fell out of use in Britain by the 1600s, but remained prevalent in the North American colonies which would eventually become the United States. The meaning "to defecate" was recorded in the U.S. since 1846 (according to Oxford and Merriam-Webster), but the word did not hold this meaning at all in Victorian England.

The connection to Thomas Crapper is conjectured by Adam Hart-Davis to be an unfortunate coincidence of his surname. The occupational name Crapper is a variant spelling of Cropper. In the US, the word crapper is a dysphemism for "toilet". The term first appeared in print in the 1930s. It has been suggested that US soldiers stationed in England during World War I (some of whom had little experience with indoor plumbing) saw many toilets printed with "T. Crapper" in the glaze and brought the word home as a synonym for "toilet" — a sort of back-formation from "crap." This suggestion, however, overlooks the fact that "crapper" was a well-established word long before that time.

Yet another purported explanation is that Thomas Crapper's flush toilet advertising was so widespread, and the business name "T. Crapper & Sons, Chelsea," was seen on so many toilets, that "crapper" became a synonym for "toilet" and people simply assumed that he was the inventor.

Despite the word usually taking the form of either a noun or verb, some people (usually speakers from Commonwealth countries[citation needed]) use crap interchangeably with its adjective form "crappy". For example, "My computer has a really crap video card", or "I'm crap at this."


[edit] See also
Crapflooding
Cruft

Answer 5

Aree. If you wanted a wikipedia answer you would go to Wikipedia.

Answer 6

Yes, it does. And it hardly ever has to do with the ?. I never pick those as BA's. There should be a character limit (like in the emails from Y/A) to stop alot of this WASTED SPACE!
You know who you are, so STOP IT!!!

Answer 7

That annoyes me tooo death! Ha i think that they are just trying to sound smart! But they only thing is dont ignor them if they are long, because Sme (I) People type a lot, so it just looks like that ! Ha jk

Answer 8

I agree ... if I am looking for the stuff they put in wikipedia
I will go there myself

.... For answereing i try to use my own unigue originallity

Answer 9

yea I think they think that if they right a mile long paragraph they will be chosen as best answer. but a short answer is just the same

Answer 10

A little bit. Anyone can cut and paste. I like people's honest and sometimes not so factual answers.