It seems like a good deal of the questions on here could be answered in seconds using wikipedia. Do people not know about it or are they just lazy?
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Well, i don't think that wikepidia, the encyclopedia you can edit, can aswer most question here, like how to put more photos to the blog, how make a 360 page and many others.\nIt is a encyclopedia and I use it for gettinf information.\nStill yahoo!answers is great in breaking the borders that separate us and helping us communicate;)
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Laziness, Remember not to long ago it was found that Wikipedia got caught with their pants down in reference to Kennedy.\nEven though Commentators have said its pretty accurate now, how could they poosible research all entries in a couple of days.\nIt has to be advertisement driven, so biased editing is always possible.\nCould be it is so heavily promoted because of the dumbing down of US and lack of critical thinking skills?
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Answerer #1 is absolutely right, but you could have looked it up in Wikipedia in 30 seconds and saved the points.
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Wikipedia is written by the general public.  Anyone can edit a topic that is open for editing.   Which is why there can be incorrect information there sometimes.
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I agree but there are so many damn questions on here that by the time someone posts a new one, the old one is on page 10,000 and some people haven't seen it yet.
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Actually, I don't sit around all day and answer questions - many times I review what has been answered and I try to find questions that I might want to have answered.  It really depends upon how one uses this forum - it could be quite an educational tool.\nThere are all kinds of people responding to questions and I've seen some professionals give their advice freely so there is a chance for almost every aspect here.
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I havent really learned much except people really like to be right. \n I only started using yahoo answers because of the politics section, it was a much better format than message boards or chat rooms. It is fun stuff, thats all.
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The ratio of questions per minute is too great to start reciculating them, there's just too many. I think everyone strives for their own question to become featured, and those are usually the questions with about 100 answers.
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because people are lazy these days & its just easier to type it in then to research it.  do i get 10 pts?
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This is more fun, here we get to interact with other people from all over, as well as get a wide range of answers for our simple little question that "yes" we couldv'e looked up on the internet\nThe fun factor out weights the slow factor, (does that make sense?)
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certain questions work well with wikipedia. especially science and factual questions. but questions revolving around politics, emotions, life, etc. should be answered by ourselves.
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I think some peoples questions are lazy. I have found answers for people before within 5 seconds of hitting search on yahoo. It's better though to read lazy questions than out right dumb ones, like when you wonder if its for real or not.
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It depends on your question. Certain questions have standard answers - which can be answered without much effort. Even if people are not aware of the right answer a simple browsing might be sufficient. Whereas the other questions for which you normally dont receive any answers really require some serious thinking. A lot of reading is required & further some really logical thinking will also be involved. Many are trying to answer as much questions as possible in the shortest time. I feel many of them are not ready to spend so much time answering a single question - where they could have answered at least a dozen!
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Well what you say is partly true. There are some people here who make useless questions or stupid questions like what's 1+1 or something stupid like that. i think most people here are just bored and just want to do random ****.
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you can get some info from wikipedia.org
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I use it for help, not answers....but I would guess a lot are using it for the answers...
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I only use it for homework if I need help with getting a different perspective or opinion, not usually for something that is pure fact.  First of all, not all answers are to be trusted and second, its kinda lazy- I can't really talk though, because i've asked questions about my homework twice.