when questions at Yahoo Q&A cost only 3 points in the past, were they less valuable than the ones we ask now?
481745
Thats inflation for you!
9027
The limit has always been there, but now you can answer more points per level.  The reason is that if there was no such system, a spammer can create a new id and spam the system with hundreds of irrelevant questions and answers.  This way, when you get above a certain level, you've built some trust in the community and you get to ask/answer more questions.\n\nYou'll see some changes in the point systems as Yahoo! fine tunes the product.  It is still in beta, after all.
62169
Are you aware you lose 2 points for each question you ask?
442271
ask less and your points will go up cause if you ask more they subtract points..........
411367
You ask a question---you lose 5 points---but gain back 3 points when you select your best answer---so total loss 2 points---but you gain by getting information---also the response from other people gives you a feeling of having been heard---that you count---you made your identity felt\n\nYou answer a question---you get 2 points---and 10 more if you give best answer---some more points when your answer is rated\n\nThat is why you will find that people answer more than they ask\n\nIf there were no points given by Yahoo Ans we wouldn't get motivated to answer so many questions or rate other people's answers\n\nI think it is all so much fun!!!
256501
judging by some of the questions that get asked, lots of people do exactly that. I'd say it is certainly harmless, and better than trying to just be rude or inflammatory for the heck of it, because you can hide behind the anonymity here.  I think I might be worse even because I am becoming kind of a "point hog" and now that they are taking away 5 points instead of two for asking a question, I am asking very few.  So good for you, you keep the system going, you don't hurt anybody, and you just let me get 2 points. Thanks.
263883
its the way the game is played. to make the game grow yahoo want people to answer questions = points, which in turn asks more questions  which in turn more answers = points etc....and on and on....if everyone just asked ? for points the game would not grow reward program.
308354
Then why bother posting a worthless question.  These types of questions weigh down the rest of the system and the good questions get buried at the bottom.  You don't want to come back?  Fine, but you don't have to waste other people's time with a dumb question.  By the way, it is "probably," not "prolly."
444888
I agree with you. \nSo many times have i seen great answers not being picked because the person asking the question. \nOnly wanted a certain answer or he/she had sidekicks who he/she preferred to give the points to. \nWell now i don't know about improving it when even yahoo cant or wont do anything about it. \nyes there is some comparison to democracy.
557026
I don't work for Yahoo! so I wouldn't personally know, but my best guess is that they have a very large server, with probably enough room to store questions for the next year or 2. I'm sure there is a policy of deleting questions after a certain period of time and based on its appropriateness.
17862
No, you don't get points for questions because the main point of the site is to answer people's questions with what you know. So, asking a question does not gain you points but answering one does. You can, however, get points when you choose a best answer or call for a vote for best answer...
344220
I don't think its either.  I think its the newness of Answers is wearing off.  When I first was introduced to Yahoo-Answers, I was totally smitten.  How fun!  How many things to learn and talk about.  Then I was addicted, checking my questions several times a day.  Surfing through the questions, looking for one I had the perfect answer to.  Now I'm finding it not so exciting, a lil boring.  So maybe you just need a break.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
843581
It is not that we are so limited ourselves, rather we are being limited by Yahoo!  Many people have asked questions that we may find intriguing, but some others have found them offensive in some way and reported them.  The result?  Interesting, challenging, pertinent questions (and answers) get deleted.
70716
Yahoo made some upgrades that makes you lose two points when you ask a question but when you pick a best answer you gain two points so it should even out unless you get no answers, so you should pick mine as the best answer to get points!!!!!! lol
57363
Because after your question sits with only 2 answers for 2 or 3 day, you figure, well that question is history.. lost among the other 87212 questions out there.. so we give a best answer and move on.  And if we wait more than 4 days, we have seen SO many questions and judged SO many answers, we forget we even asked a question of our own, then I'll think of a new question, and forget to judge the other one, and it pops back into memory 7 days later with the same amount of answers, so I judge what I have already seen a few times, and held out for nothing.\n\nI have 2 q's I asked this morning.. one was just BS to see how many responses I got, another was a personal poll of how everyone else does things..BOTH are stagnant as of noon today.. "totalled out at 6 and 14 answers.. currently".. I may keep them a day or two more.
1031303
No, but I have a better question-why'd you waste 5 points on the worst question ever and even miscategorize it?
1131987
some people just do not want to go back and look at older questions I guess. new ones are easier to see. lol.