Is This A Good Site To Ask Serious Political Questions And Get Reasoned Responses. . . . . . . Or?

Question

Or. . .. Would it be more accurate to say that after Yahoo suspended several of it's Top Political Answers , that this site is left with very few people who understand how to Think , Rationalize , and Answer Intelligently ?

Answer 1

No it's not, it never was, and where do you fall into those catagories that you mention.

Answer 2

The trouble isn't Y/A, strictly speaking.

Yahoo used to have a "Discuss"option that linked to news stories. That used to be where people would go to debate, argue, sound off-etc. And was the proper place for it.

That forum was discontinued--Yahoo wanted (so they said) to revise the system so that some very real problems with trolls and with abusive posters could be resolved with a new system. They had a point--the way the system was set up, some jerks were pretty much choking the system.

However, the new system has never been put online--and that was over a year ago. Or, if it has, I wish someone would say so. At any rate, a lot of people migrated to Answers. This isn't really the place for this type of discussion. Its intended for, as you say, serious questions--and that's mostly what you see in most Answers categories.

The Yahoo people--and others, like Google--need a reality check. I understand their trying to keep things resonably civil. At the same time, people are going to get online and discuss/argue/yell at each other--and if there isn't an appropriate forum for doing so (like the "Discuss" option was--people are simply going to move to a place like Answers.

Granted, there are a lot of forums where one can post/answer questions on politics, the environment, etc. But most are low volume--the ease of use and high number of posts is the big attraction of this ype of forum--it allws for a lot of give-and-take in more or less realtime.

The simple fact is that we need an alternative to Answers. And somebody--Gogle or Yahoo or an innovativeoutsider--is going to provide one sooner or later. The one who does--and s going to make mucho dinero off advertising sales--the demand for that type of forum is incredible.

But--for now, a few places like Y/A are about all that's available.

Answer 3

I like having more than one option. Like the blackout we got today around 2pm EST? I feel comforted being among pilgrim's I can understand. Some daze here the effort seems futile. Yet I would never be one to stop writing on. Just get details here and there.
SO yes ET. The responses have tanked and reasonable answers seem hard to assimulate. But many try. Just tuff sifting thru the building rubbish bin around here. NO dis respect. When your block base out weighs your fans? When Top Contributer's keep all blocked to save their own neck? Then those who are forced out. For what?! Having a brain? Reminds me lately of AOL and Match.com.

edit : B toast no idea about Brian but I know a pack of others. I think you may eat your cap or a cactus if you knew some of the truths. Not my story to tell.

Answer 4

Lets put it this way many people do not know how the Government works Y/A merely proves out that the mob is unfit to rule because the people who know what they are doing got exiled by the mob.

So at Yahoo answer at least in the political section is mob rule and therefore it is unlikely to get to many good answers. Plus the aggressive tactics used here allows for strange mud fighting and not the good kind with the hot women.

You may however get 1 good answer to each question and that might be the best answer.

Answer 5

The government is trying to end sites like this one and taking out its leaders is a standard military tactic .
I have to wonder why people who speak of freedom do not allow others to be free .

AN initiative that went unopposed by congressional Democrats, the revised Bill of Rights provides citizens with a "more manageable" set of privacy and due-process rights by eliminating four amendments and condensing and/or restructuring five others. The Second Amendment, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, was the only article left unchanged.

Calling the historic reduction "a victory for America," Bush promised that the new document would do away with "bureaucratic impediments to the flourishing of democracy at home and abroad."

"It is high time we reaffirmed our commitment to this enduring symbol of American ideals," Bush said. "By making the Bill of Rights a tool for progress instead of a hindrance to freedom, we honor the true spirit of our nation's forefathers."

The Fourth Amendment, which long protected citizens' homes against unreasonable search and seizure, was among the eliminated amendments. Also stricken was the Ninth Amendment, which stated that the enumeration of certain Constitutional rights does not result in the abrogation of rights not mentioned.

"Quite honestly, I could never get my head around what the Ninth Amendment meant anyway," said outgoing House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), one of the leading advocates of the revised Bill of Rights. "So goodbye to that one."

Amendments V through VII, which guaranteed the right to legal counsel in criminal cases, and guarded against double jeopardy, testifying against oneself, biased juries, and drawn-out trials, have been condensed into Super-Amendment V: The One About Trials.

Attorney General John Ashcroft hailed the slimmed-down Bill of Rights as "a positive step."

Answer 6

There is a big difference between 'reasoned' responses. There can be a reasoned response that you don't agree with, but it is still a reasoned response.

You have always had the ability to understand that even though someone may not agree with you...you respect their viewpoint.

But in answer to your question...No...there are too many that don't, or can't, understand that there is always someone who will believe something different. So you're on your own with those left at Y!A.

Answer 7

I purely observed one Christian answer that i could evaluate even drawing close the brink of being what you need to call an insult... the different, i assume an atheist could see it as one, besides the incontrovertible fact that that's no longer, it relatively is a in the present day forward and easy answer.... You, as an atheist will in actuality no longer see any answer passable because you do no longer seem to the religious area of issues..... NO ?? definite ?? And permit me fill ya in on a huge secret.... Atheist are purely as. if not greater insulting with their solutions.... look on the solutions you acquire from them on your question or maybe this one, resorting to pretending to be waiting to study each and every ones minds, understand purely we expect of, etc..... etc..... etc..... do no longer circulate down the *adverse me, i'm insulted course* once you're greater efficient at than maximum...... How is that for one severe answer ?? Can ya cope with the actuality ?? new child of God - X atheist (badge of wish)

Answer 8

Questions often provoke a myriad of personal emotions, intellect, education, and ideologies, which will provide a myriad of answers, and among these answers will lay a bound of intelligence / reasoning's.
It is some what common to be required to think about an answer, to actually perceive the responders reasoned intent.
NOW HOW DOES THAT SCATOLOGY SOUND??

Answer 9

If honest, well-thought-out Political questions were calories, we would have all starved to death by now.

Those "Top Answerers" were removed for violating the TOS agreement, either by point gaming under several different IDs or by not actually answering anything, just by giving the equivalent of "Good point, man".

If someone can link to ANY question Brian actually answered, where he provided a solution, and not just an agreement with the questioner, I will apologize (I've been saying this for 2 weeks and no one has linked a answer for me yet).

Answer 10

It really depends on how you phrase your questions. Generally speaking, when I ask a question I get some solid answers. However, it cannot be denied that on average maybe 30% of the people answering in the political section are actually concerned with giving honest, reasonable answers. The rest just appear to be mired in the rhetoric of their own chosen ideology.

Answer 11

No it never was a good site for reasoned or reasonably informed responses, and it's not much different now. It is a good site to get a range of opinions though.