Yahoo Answers rating is not fair ?

Question

It’s not fair only choose best answer and rate the person who answers?

I think we have to rate the good question and down rate for the silly one, to make like a research site, and can gain information from here, not wasting time only
What’s ur opinion on this subject?

Answer 1

This is a wonderful way to interact openly, freely and instantaneously with real people almost anywhere in the world. This is what is first and foremost in the purpose here. The second, in my view, comes the opportunity to exchange vital knowledge about life and information about things in life. We cannot say, offer as an advice to someone or have to decide in our own mind whether we should take this seriously or just entertainingly because the activities here so close to life that both the question and answers, however funny they sometimes might seem, do affect our views upon specific issues and our insightfulness into life in general - asking questions and reading responses has often been like a quick reality check for own philosophy. I however would like to see more of a sense of active curiosity, wonder and intriguing interest into matters of life as right mental attitudes here nutured here

Surely, Yahoo Answers aims to make this site more and more relevant, useful and up to a certain standard in view the needs and capabilities of human mind, at the same time keep the whole process as simple as it can be. I can understand that your suggestion is useful as it considers the other side of the extreme, the opposite to what one might think is only the best. I often find people struggling with having to choose just one answer, as the best, whereas they often have more than one answers in consideration. I therefore can suggest that there should be the best, the second best and, if matters are not to be made too complicated, then the third answer at the third place as well. The task of choosing the silliest one however, I would like to leave to the members of the public deciding anonymously through thumb ups or down method - this to avoid any personal issue cropping up among individual people.

Answer 2

I think it would be better to have a separate category for those who are using this for research papers, those who require data about the source.
From what I can tell, this site has people from all walks of life, and I am thankful for that.
"The only stupid question is the one not asked."
I see how this could be frustrating, but you may think a question is good when I think a question is silly.
Ratings are subjective, therefore, unreliable.
These are some of my thoughts.

Answer 3

Yep! There are rather a lot of stupid, inane and pointless questions, usually written with atrocious spelling and in awful English. The errors would be quite acceptable, if the questions had substance and you had the feeling that the questioner really wanted to know or learn.
I'm going to stop now! I'm beginning to sound like a Grumpy Old Man!

Answer 4

I think this site is meant to reflect real people, from the serious and helpful, to the downright daft.It's not Wilkpedia after all is it? Any advice or information given is up to the person asking the question on how serious to take replies.I actually like the mix of people on here, I don't take the forum too seriously.It's just a bit of fun most of the time.

Answer 5

This is a public forum on Yahoo, not an academic forum. If you expect only highly intelligent and rigorously logical questions and answers, you should find a philosophy discussion group at your local university. In a place like Yahoo, you have to be ready to make allowances for the fact that people of all types, backgrounds, and levels of education are equally welcome here, and the Q & A will reflect that.

Answer 6

The star feature is a way of 'rating' the question. But just like points, ratings, in my opinion aren't that important. The only important thing is the personal value you get from questions and answers.

Answer 7

i guess that would be cool, so like if you answered a bad answer and the answered chooses you as the worst answer, you lose 10 points instead of gaining. However, as soon as you give people the power to punish instead of praise they start abusing that and it will become difficult for people to express their true opinion as they'll be in fear of losing 10 points. The pointing system is well worked out and works, otherwise it would be like a totalitarian government. Lol.

Answer 8

nicely if it is your facebook they appropriate to you may desire to do some issues: a million) record the question right here on yahoo for invading your privateness. 2) Make your facebook profile thoroughly inner maximum. pass into your settings and make each and everything "buddies basically" seen. as nicely as going to all your photograph albums and making that seen to "buddies basically". That way if a link on your profile is published returned, no person will see something different than a grey field the place your photograph could be.

Answer 9

Well you can up rate the question by awarding stars, but yes a downrating system for a question would be a good addition.

Answer 10

well, a while ago there was a thumbs up & thumbs down system for the questions, not just the answers. but yahoo saw fit to change that, and replaced it with being able to award stars to the questions....

personally i preferred the thumbs up & down method, as some of the questions that get posted are beyond stupid...