do people really try to get answers for their homework off this site?
356815
Yes especially on sundays...thats all you see....homework questions. How do they ever expect to learn.\n\nHave a great day
497060
Not really.  This site isn't meant to be perfect as far as I know - just to give people reasonable answers to their questions.  No one is being graded on their writing here.  People are working quickly and just want to get the message across.  Some of us are more meticulous than others.  Some of us speak and write English a little better than others.  No big deal.  Life is too short to worry about such things.
174024
No joke!  Or just by doing a Google search, for heaven's sake.  Some of them seem like research questions for homework--perhaps the teacher specified that they can't just look it up, and this is a sneaky way of being lazy anyway?\n\nPeople want attention, and even near-anonymous answers are better than nothing?  (You'd think they'd work harder to come up with a clever question if that were the case, though)
150955
I like to answer questions, but many of the answers people give are highly questionable! Especially those that are seeking to get their two points by writing something stupid like 'x' or 'don't know' or 'haha'. Or those that write huge volumes of material and quote wikipedia as their source. Very few people seem to write anything which is their own material; they merely copy it from internet sites. I believe that is not in the true spirit of Yahoo Answers. So would people please think of their own answers!
877765
ok, but there is a category called 'homework help' you might get better answers there.
94459
yes. it's called "why don't you do the homework yourself since there is the internet and you obviously know how to use it since you wrote this question".
967308
Must not be an awesome site if they don't have the answers.
835709
I can think of several different reasons:\n\n1. If doing the homework is too much effect, the same is probably true of choosing a best answer.\n\n2. Maybe, when they fail the tests because they don't have a clue how to get the answer themselves, they blame the answerer.\n\n3. Ungrateful.\n\n4. There are users and givers in this country - these are examples of the former. \n\nI'm sure you can even think of more possible reasons.
1173272
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.
626060
When you come to this site, you have to come knowing that all sorts of people will come and give advice.  There are people giving answers that are not serious about their answers, some really are ignorant and unlearned, the worst are the ones who are racist and morally wrong.  When you get the answers, just disregard the bad ones and consider the good ones.  This is really what makes this site fun, at least sometimes.
131106
Why do you post homework questions here ?
578964
Yes, I like the rating of the answers, and it is challenging to try to get points, but it should be for decent, legit answers.
64446
I think mostly people are asking opinion questions to see if what they are already thinking agrees with their peers.\nSome are needing help with their homework and have noone else to turn to.\nSome are asking questions they would be made fun of if they ask their friends.\nAnd some are looking for a true answer, website link or fact to something they either can't find on the web, or don't want to weed through 1,873 websites to find.\nAnd yes.. some are here just to goof off
866813
Some of us do care, luv.  It's a question of what constitutes help.  If someone posts "please do these 24 problems for me", then I tend to ignore them.  If they post one or two, then I provide solutions as opposed to just providing answers.  I answer them essentially the same way I would answer someone in class (without, unfortunately, the blackboard, which does sometimes cramp my style).\n\nI have the same problem when someone posts multiple questions that obviously all come from the same assignment.  If someone posts a single question, I think it reasonable to assume they just need an explanation of that kind of question and they'll do the rest themselves.  When there are multiple postings, though, that's obviously not the case.\n\nIn short, I guess, you help someone with his/her homework by showing them how to do that type of problem.  You help them cheat by giving them an answer.\n\nAnd, to be honest, I do that sometimes, too - so I guess it's a judgement call.
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Just think--in the time it took you to log on, type that question and wait for an answer, you could've done your own research on an astoundingly simple question and actually learned something for yourself.\n\nWow.  \nI guess there's always some sucker you can rely on to do your homework for you for the possibility of getting some meaningless points, huh?\nWow.
945192
are you trying to let people do your homework?
86322
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.