It's not. You're supposed to ask questions such as "What the hell is evolution?" or "What makes cat's heads explode?"\n\nYour'e not supposed to ask questions like "wut'sz uuur favureiit collloarz lolz" or "Whatssz uuur faveriet wayzs to jak ooff?!"\n\nSeriously.
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Everyone has their own reasons for being here.  \nRelax, Release, Relate!\nIt's not that serious!
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Some people are here to entertain themselves. Some people are in it for the points, I guess. (Why else would someone answer "I don't know"?) Maybe one of your questions will get picked as a featured question. Then you will get more thoughtful answers. In the meantime, share your own knowledge and help to enhance the intellectual level of this site!
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Some people just don't get it!  I guess they were never taught respect for anything.  I think sometimes people don't realize the power of "words".  They may think they are writing something really clever, and funny, when actually what they write can be very offensive or hurt-full to the person asking the question.  I don't understand why some people feel the need to just answer "any" question regardless if they have an educated answer, or not.  The entire Yahoo Answers thing was set up to help people find solutions to their problems, not as a "playground"  I'm not saying that all answers should be cut, and dry.  Humor always has it's place, as long as it lends it's self to a quality answer.
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Look at from the other angle.\nAll these days they were not\neven asking any questions.\nAt least this site has provided\nthem an opportunity to express.\nThey have transformed from Silent\nmode to (Some)Question mode.Next\nhaving realized the potential of\nthis mode,they will ask right questions\nand you can give right answer,Till then...
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interesting, are they recruiting people or just stating things, or are they asking legit questions?\n\nfreedom of speech is kinda a right we've got, so they shouldn't be censored\n\nI'm neither one nor the other, but ignore it if they bother you\n\nIf it's so lame and obvious then it will only distract the stupid people from Answers and Questions\n\nno threat to us my friend
145134
its good to ask questions but unless your like five or something then that question was a little uncalled for. Grow up!
13410
Yes. I think they do it to keep people from asking idle questions.  If you know it'll cost you a point, most people will refrain from asking things like, "Would you kiss my pet gerbil?" or some other nonsense.
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I could see if you were being vulger or using a lot of profanity, just for the fact that there are some very young people who use this site, however, the question that you had on here that was censored was not of any distaste. It was certainly retarded, and it had no relevence to anything, but it was not something that needed to be censored. We live in a country that was at one time "Free". It has now become so politically correct you cant say or do anything without offending someone.
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They teach it alright, and I'm not so sure why people post these questions. Maybe it's to be funny, or maybe they really want to know what this stuff  is ASAP.
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No. What it means that the people who answer those types of questions really have no clue at all about the other serious questions.  It is easy to make up a comment about farting and nose picking because they do it all the time, but not so easy if you have a genuine relationship problem because, face it, most of the people who visit this site are in the 6-14 yr age range and have NO experience in life dealing with ANYTHING beyond the scope of their keyboard and monitor.  Thus they are UNABLE to comprehend anything in real-life situations beacause their entire world sits on a computer monitor screen.
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There are places for free speech.  This site is used by a lot of kids and that has to be atken into consideration.  Questions which are racist, adult in content etc SHOULD be removed to protect them.  there are other more appropriate places to discuss those matters...:D
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I've  thought this from the start. Especially when those potty mouthed questions are only for that purpose, just to talk dirt. Believe it or not, it has gotten better since I first came on board. It still has a lot of room for improvement. I have noticed several questions that have been yanked that seemed OK to me. I couldn't figure a good reason why. Maybe we should take this to the Yahoo questions crew.
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Yep, just keep clicking on. Some of the questions on here are ridiculous, but for the most part they're harmless. Ignore them.\n\nI'm more concerned about the pornographic questions. Oh, and the number of young kids looking to this boardfor answers about sex,  or to meet someone. Dangerous...
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Its not that it was a bad question or anything like that.  If you look to see how many questions are in here you will quickly see that the questions change by the minute so its just possible that it was overlooked.  Also, time of day has a lot to do w/ it.  If you want a question answered by kids, ask it when you know a lot of kids are likely to be online and the same goes for intelligent adults.  I personally didnt see it myself.  Im on here a lot due to being on disability.
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Any question is fair game here,Although It does matter to me when it is a sex question in the cooking section or the animal section...And I have seen some inappropriate questions(mostly sexual of some kind, I mean really stupid!)(not that there's anything wrong with that, but the ?'s are just wrong!!!) but sometimes I also think they are being asked by someone who is trying to see what kind of bites they will get, you know for shock value! and also maybe some kid is asking, being stupid-testing the limits of Y! Answers.\n\nIf you want an easy 2 points, answer it, most times those questions get deleted, either by Yahoo or the asker.\n\nYou really should have a open mind when you are on Y! answers, these things shouldn't bother you, there are more important things in the world to be bothered by.\n\nI really don't let any of the questions bother me, after all it is a public site and you just have to remember there are a lot of idiots out there!
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Nice generalisation. The sharing of true facts can never harm people, But i do have to kind of agree with you on the reason some of the questions are asked. I would hope that people use common sense and answer the more risky questions with tact and diplomacy, With knowledge comes responsibility
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Absolutely agree.  You produce unusually well-written questions (I've answered several of yours in the past few days).  You have a concise question as a subject, followed by just enough details to indicate what it is you really want to know.\n\nEven though I'm a writer, spelling and grammatical errors don't bother me too much (I realize that many people are non-native English speakers ... and some people have great ideas, but have trouble with typing or grammar).\n\nI admit that sometimes the idiotic questions really get me going.  When someone starts with a bad premise, or uses glaringly faulty logic, I try to point it out (gently, if I can muster it).\n\nAnd sometimes it's other *answers* that get me to respond.  When someone writes a perfectly valid question and gets flamed ... or when six people all respond with the same *wrong* answer (like "Sedna is the 10th planet" or "carbon dating is how we date fossils"), I feel compelled to answer.  Somehow quashing misinformation is as important as providing good information.\n\nOther pet peeves:\n- A statement with a question mark after it ... doesn't make it a question.\n- A short question followed by a long list of unrelated questions, each of which deserves a page of reponse.\n- A description that's essentially a long diatribe indicating that the asker has no interest in any answer at all.\n- A question that has only been asked about 200 times.  Don't people pay attention to the "previously asked questions" that comes up as you type a question in?  I may barf the next time I see "chicken or egg?" or "why is sky blue?"\n- A *stupid* question that has only been asked about 200 times. Why do creationists think "why are there still monkeys?" is *incredibly* clever, no matter how many times responders demonstrate that it is incredibly stupid?\n- Questions copied ver batim from web sites.  When the Asker can't be bothered to write his/her own question, then it's a sure sign they won't bother reading the answers.\n- (Related to this.)  Long answers copied ver batim from web sites.  Please, just put the link.\n- Askers who ignore the ten people who submit detailed answers to their questions, and then reward "I dunno" from a friend as the "Best Answer" (usually with five stars).