Do you think limiting the number of questions you can answer on her defeats the purpose of the site?

Question

I got limited today and I can't answer anymore questions. I think it defeats the purpose of the site.

Answer 1

That happened to me back when I was your age. But I've gotten older and wiser, (OK, just older) since then, and I've been upgraded to endless answering. Hang in there, your day will come when you too can be without a leash.

Answer 2

You're wrong, it's actually an excellent method of preventing spam.

The limits are designed to require people to contribute to the site in order to earn the right to answer more questions each day. This means when Spammers create accounts, they can only post a finite number of spam responses before they run out of daily posts. This makes it easier to clean up Spam, because there's less of it.

Additionally, this encourages people to obey the community guidelines. You need to invest time and energy in the site in order to earn more posting rights, and breaking the rules costs you points and privileges.

It's a nicely thought out, if insufficiently policed design for reducing Spam and abuse.

Answer 3

I'd have to agree. But, I wonder why, in some sections, ppl look down on asking questions! In the Yahoo! Products-Y!A section, ppl were always telling me I needed to answer more and stop asking so many questions. They had the audacity to look @ my profile and tell me what I had been doing and what I neede to do! That's the whole purpose of this site! lol Yeah, it's called Yahoo! Answers, but you need QUESTIONS in order to receive answers. Duh! lol

Answer 4

I always wondered why they decided to set limits too. Maybe they are parenting and preventing addictions?

Answer 5

Come to level 6....NO LIMITS!!

Answer 6

I must plead the fifth here.

Answer 7

Yeah it sucks sometimes. You can go to wondir.com if you're that desperate.