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What are your pet peeves on Yahoo! Answers?

I know these sites are less than perfect, so what things annoy you about this place? Mine are, amongst others:

Unfunny troll questions/answers (like this one, hurr hurr. I made the joke before anyone else did!)

Writing a thoughtful, insightful, helpful answer, and finding out it has been deleted before you post your answer! >_<

People who write in the exact way they talk, not for a laugh, for realz.

Ppl hu tp lk dis.

People who post the same question, multiple times, over a period of weeks.

Legit questions in the completely wrong category.

Questions inciting personal communication.

Soooo... what are yours? Be creative! :D

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  • 8 years ago
    Favourite answer

    STRONG AGREE on

    People who post the same question, multiple times, over a period of weeks.

    OTHERS

    Questions that insult a group - just by the question itself- lots of these in gender studies, politics, religion

    Questions that aren't a question. They have a question mark at the end, but they are rants. at best.

    Questions that can not possibly be answered here -

    ANSWERS that are the exact opposite of reality - like telling a person with perfectly normal blood glucose readings that they are going to die soon from diabetes.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I agree with your second peeve. Writing a long answer only to have the question deleted!

    Yahoo techs, if you are reading this, is it possible to get a small app to notify you when a question is deleteted? I know refreshing the page every 10 seconds will also erase what i wrote already! But how about a second app that refreshes in a corner, like those, you got mail, buttons on the toolbar. That wouldn't refresh the page but will keep you informed if the question has been deleted.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    the position do I initiate? Abuse of the rfile button. No humorousness from seventy 5% of YA consumers. those who do not pay interest to spell verify. no longer getting solutions to questions. Getting violations for no evident reason. (See the rfile button observed above.) And why this style of tremendous style of persons do not pick a best answer (a lot of those I answer are left to bypass into balloting.)

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    The kids who post their homework questions for others to do!

    Adverts pretending to be questions!

    The same person putting in numerous questions in the same category on the same day.

  • 8 years ago

    Armchair critics who give pretty nasty answers with no thought to the human asking the question.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The continuous question of *How much water should l be drinking?*

    *What's my ideal weight?* *Am l eating too much?* *Rate me out of 10*

    Drives me nuts.

  • 8 years ago

    People who have nothing else to do with their lives so they send you mean hateful Answers.

  • Am I pregnant questions.

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