The 10 Commandments of Yahoo Answers?

Question

Yahoo Answers needs 10 Commandments from the actual user. You guys are the ones that experience Yahoo Answers and know some problems you would like fixed, but seem like they never will. You know, when you see a user get a thumbs down for a great answer that makes perfect sense. When you get insulted for no reason, or when someone answers a question "I dont know" and gets 2 points for NOT helping out another user. The trolls that start trouble and say things that make you angry, internet or not

They can be anything you want. give me your 10 commandments, and if you don't have 10, any number will do

(I plan on putting together a list of 10 commandments for this site, to keep the integrity of the site up and make it so we all don't have to deal with crap we shouldn't have to deal with)

So, throw something out there :-)

Answer 1

1. Thou shall not answer a question if they don't know the answer.
2. Thou shall not ask a qusestion if they know the answer.
3. Thou shall not ask a question just to argue a point (ie: Why do people get abortions?)
4. Thou shall not ask a question if other people already have, over 100 times.
5. Thou shall not answer a question incorrectly because they are trying to be funny, especially when they're not.
6. Thou shall not post pornn.
7. Thou shall not ask to be rated.
8. Thou shall not ask a question 10+ times because they have not gotten an answer. We obviously don't know!
9. Thou shall not ask a very easy question that can easily be answered with Google.
10. Thou shall respect all of the people on answers.

Answer 2

who r u??? Y!A teams??btw here it is :

1. All Y!A users must create the Avatar. not showing the defaults one.

2. Show which user who gives another answerer thumb-up/down!

3. IGNORE or REMOVE those qst that ask user to rate their picture!

4. Block/Warn the user showing the dirty picture

5. Y!A team should check the qst/ans reported by another user before remove/block the contents. dont just simply remove before check it! I sent 2 qst that has been removed! a dont see any acceptable reasons for deleting those qst! absurd!

6. If the user asking for help for a serious problem OR question, dont making fun of them.

7. Dont have to judge/comment another user's answer especially when u r not the Asker!

8. Dont aswer the question when u r not for a question which need the expert to answer such as in the Computer/Internet Cateogory.Woman's health. etc. It may bring harm to the Asker.

9. Give a reward to the Top Contributors!!!!!

10. No stupid qst please..

Answer 3

Thou Shalt Not:
1. give responses that are not answers (example: "thanks for the 2 points", idk, etc...)
2. exhibit anti social behavior (examples: overtly hateful responses, obscenity (if you submit words that are considered swear words, Y! answers ****s them out)
3. use Yahoo answers for things which it was not intended (examples: chatting, avatar games, the WSIDR)

Like you have mentioned, we all know the list of things that are considered, by most, to not be useful in the creation and maintenance of this valuable, interesting and useful forum.

A list of commandments for "What Thou Shalt Do" could also be created. This might help everyone avoid the "shalt nots" altogether, and stay focused on Thou Shalt:

1. Honestly try to answer the question.
2. Be helpful.
3. Show thoughtfulness, commonsense, a sense of humor, and the like in your answers.

It is good to take into account all the things that appear to take away from this forum (chatting, hatred, etc...).
However, it is also unfortunate to exclude responders that provide some valuable elements of everyday life like humor and the great variety of different points of view.
To just allow strictly cut and dry answers to questions excludes too many people in my humble opinion - you can try if you want to, but you'll probably end up looking like some kind of overly judgemental neo nazi fool.

Let humans be humans. All in all, this forum seems pretty good as it is now. Whatever the Yahoo! answers team is doing now appears to be working. Further threatening participants with preventing them from using any Yahoo! services if they somehow mess up is going to turn away a lot of Yahoo customers. I know that when I read the new guidelines and read that people with so many violations could also have their e-mail accounts canceled and erased seemed kind of creepy to me. I have never had any warnings or violations, but still, I thought maybe I should start looking at other search engines and networks in case someone read my answers and suddenly decided they didn't like my answers.

This forum is pretty simple and straight forward and that's the way it should stay, because that's what makes it so great. . People ask questions and people try and respond as best they can to those questions. That's it. Making things more complicated and creating too many rules is just going to discourage too many people from visiting Y! answers at all.

Maybe they could experiment and have special sections for those who post outrageous questions and answers and another section for those who never want to experience, or give, a thumbs down. Then there would be another good reason to delete excessively inappropriate questions and answers from all the different categories where more appropriate answers are more appreciated.

Answer 4

I. Thou shall not make racist remarks.

II. Thou shall not give thumbs-down without good reason.

III. Points are privileges not rights, you have to earn them.

IV. Thou shall not report without good reason.

V. Avatar Games shall not be considered violations.

VI. If thou does not have an answer, thou shall not post at all.

VII. Y!A citizens shall elect the Y!A assembly. this is a Democracy.

VIII. There shall not be a limit on questions and answers.

IX. Thou shall recieve points for having thumbs-up or stars

X. THOU SHALL HAVE FUN ON Y!A!!!

Answer 5

Thou Shalt Not Cut And Paste From Wikipedia

Thou Shalt Not Answer Any Question With 'Your Mum'

Thou Shalt Not Draw Stupid Pictures Using The Hyphen Key

Answer 6

Thou shalt not curse
Thou shalt not answer a question with idk
Thou shalt remember to bring your sense of humor with you
Thou shalt not stalk
Thou shalt not thumb down someone for sharing their opinion
Thou shalt not add a contact unless emailing them first
Thou shalt have fun!!

think we need yahoo to guarantee that folks who have been stalked into suspension be given their accounts back.I showed them where I had someone threaten to have me suspended for asking a question and within 24 hours I had 10 violations and was suspended.

we behave...they should be fair too..

Answer 7

1. Women only (unless you are a man doctor in this area) in the womens health section and vice versa

2. No posting, "edit" on the answer

3. no raceism

4. no double posting lyrics

5. answer seriously if it's a serious q and vice versa

6. no cussing

7. eliminate the thumbs up/down button

8. your answer must be 5 words or more

Answer 8

Thou shall:

not report for no reason
post MORE toilet humour
post LESS stupid questions
Remove Judas rabbi
Report irritating questions

Answer 9

Thou SHALT ...
*Make your answer relevant to the question
*Use reasonably decent spelling and grammar
*Be allowed only one "lol" per 20 answers

Thou shalt NOT...
*Use "idk" as your whole answer - if udk, skip it and find something you CAN answer
*Post endless, space-wasting, time-wasting, page-long rants, sermons, diatribes, etc
*Insult people for having different opinions than yours
*Give thumbs down to relevant answers, just because you disagree

And finally:
OMG! ppl..........WTF is ths ShT?!!!!! idk Y u find it so difficult to speak in, if not sentences, at least complete words!

Thank you so much, Sexy, for doing this! -Z

Answer 10

Thou shall not report
Thou shall not stalk

That's about it.