What happened to Yahoo Answers?

[Archereus]

This is a question concerning that very thing we call Yahoo Answers. Now as far as i know Yahoo is a good site and it should be able to get mods. But if ever you spend a minute and look over some one the questions the spelling and grammar is just horrible. I know i have a bad reputation for that sort of thing but the spelling and grammar on yahoo answers would lower you standards. For site with so many users and new questions every damned second do you think Yahoo should make more of an effort to have people correct there shit. All they offer is a petty little spell checker and no one uses it.
Like i know i am bad at English since my first language is french but a lot of these people have been English all there lives and they spell worst then i do and mix up so many words.

 

[Svenparty]

First person to put this question on Yahoo Answers wins.

 

[Archereus]

First person to put this question on Yahoo Answers wins.

you would get reported and suspended for 2 weeks, trust me i did this

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

First person to put this question on Yahoo Answers wins.

you would get reported and suspended for 2 weeks, trust me i did this

Congratulations, you won.

 

[Archereus]

Grammar and spelling aren't my biggest issue with that site.
The questions are.
There was some lady who thought her daughter was possessed by "bad spirits."
People suggested bibles and all of that bullshit...
And when some nurse suggested that the baby had collic or whatever it's called, she was basically thumbed-down into oblivion.

And the questioner believed these people!
Fucking idiots.

yeah that so some times the question and some times answers are a little much. Just imagine if one of those kind of users were to come on here for a week.

 

[zirnitra]

My name problem is this, someone asks a question like "how do you make ice cream at home" there will be several hundred answers like this "umm i lyk dunno haha1 but i frikn luv tm n jerrys LOL"

 

[Archereus]

My name problem is this, someone asks a question like "how do you make ice cream at home" there will be several hundred answers like this "umm i lyk dunno haha1 but i frikn luv tm n jerrys LOL"

yeah that too,i forgot that one idiots answering a question with a i don't know, doesn't that defeat the point?

 

[Svenparty]

you would get reported and suspended for 2 weeks, trust me i did this

Well you didn't really loose then, most of the questions could easily be typed in to Google it seems to be filled with people thinking that people with voices (instead of well structured articles on how to remove that toothbrush from your anus) are better

 

[Archereus]

Grammar and spelling aren't my biggest issue with that site.
The questions are.
There was some lady who thought her daughter was possessed by "bad spirits."
People suggested bibles and all of that bullshit...
And when some nurse suggested that the baby had collic or whatever it's called, she was basically thumbed-down into oblivion.

And the questioner believed these people!
Fucking idiots.

yeah that so some times the question and some times answers are a little much. Just imagine if one of those kind of users were to come on here for a week.

I would kill them to death.

We would be so hard on them they would most likely become emo and then slit their wrists then go on yahoo answers asking why we here on the escapist are so harsh and how to get the persons parents of his or her backs because they caught him or her cutting them selves

 

[Melancholy_Ocelot]

I think that as a user we should be able to filter viewing other users comments under a certain age. I know technically they cannot reveal the age of the user if they are a minor(some minors are articulate), and they have no real way of enforcing the minimum age policy.

I'd still like to see a checkbox for "View Answers/Questions of users ages < 16"

That would help with the endless "How to I check Myspace at school?" questions that plague the Technology boards.

There is an Firefox addon called "YouTube Comment Snob" that filters comments with X amount of misspelled words. Maybe someone needs to make one for Yahoo Answers.

 

[Archereus]

Grammar and spelling aren't my biggest issue with that site.
The questions are.
There was some lady who thought her daughter was possessed by "bad spirits."
People suggested bibles and all of that bullshit...
And when some nurse suggested that the baby had collic or whatever it's called, she was basically thumbed-down into oblivion.

And the questioner believed these people!
Fucking idiots.

yeah that so some times the question and some times answers are a little much. Just imagine if one of those kind of users were to come on here for a week.

I would kill them to death.

We would be so hard on them they would most likely become emo and then slit their wrists then go on yahoo answers asking why we here on the escapist are so harsh and how to get the persons parents of his or her backs because they caught him or her cutting them selves

Or worse: All of the people who read the post come here to torment us with their stupidity.

That would suck, then we could just get out mods to pester them right in return

 

[Archereus]

I think that as a user we should be able to filter viewing other users comments under a certain age. I know technically they cannot reveal the age of the user if they are a minor(some minors are articulate), and they have no real way of enforcing the minimum age policy.

I'd still like to see a checkbox for "View Answers/Questions of users ages < 16"

That would help with the endless "How to I check Myspace at school?" questions that plague the Technology boards.

There is an Firefox addon called "YouTube Comment Snob" that filters comments with X amount of misspelled words. Maybe someone needs to make one for Yahoo Answers.

Yeah yahoo already has the spell check but these people don't care to use it any way. So what would the amazing firefox add help? nothing at all. Also another good feature would be if the person has over lets say 6 spelling mistakes he or she must correct it before posting, like must. Just to give room for things like "ok" which are considered misspelling with these spell checkers

 

[Arcticflame]

I've had my friend answer a retardedly long maths question, only for the OP to call him an idiot, and give best answer to the poster after him, who used a more basic method which only works half the time.

Yep. Gotta love helping people.

 

[deletemeplease107]

Grammar and spelling aren't my biggest issue with that site.
The questions are.
There was some lady who thought her daughter was possessed by "bad spirits."
People suggested bibles and all of that bullshit...
And when some nurse suggested that the baby had collic or whatever it's called, she was basically thumbed-down into oblivion.

And the questioner believed these people!
Fucking idiots.

Im sure you suggested an idea?

 

[SquirrelPants]

This made me think "HOW IS BABBY FORMED?" so many times...
Yeah, Yahoo answers is idiotic, I think we can all agree on that. We just need a way to bring it down...*Opens up (intrawebz) burglar's kit* Muhuahahaha!
=D

 

[white_salad]

Apparently according to this thread, the escapists are the master internet race.

That's right vwe are zhe escapists, you shall feeel ze strengh oov our grammer correction, and you vwill vworship oos as though vwe vwere gots.