[sereneiders]

knb2004, I just gave you a recipe to correct your missbehaviors at Yahoo Answers.

I know what you wanted to accomplish. I am being a little more sarcastic than you are, and if I posted was just to provide some support.

In any case, Yahoo Answers isn't the best place to discuss this, preciselly because this requires discussion, and YA doesn't allow it. I'ts "post and forget".

And it isn't just about swinging. It really amazes me how irresponsible Yahoo is with this product. The same ignorant folks asking a question (for example, a girl asking about a STD diagnose or pregnancy risks) is the one picking THE answer, based on the very same ignorance plus their wishfull thinking, and that answer (and the whole product) is portrayed as a "collection of popular knowledge"... when the only they actually help achieve is to propagate and feed the ignorance and the prejudices.

Seriously, I am waiting to se Yahoo being sued by someone damaged by the advice he/she got from YA.

YA isn't about information, because information means just the amount synthesized data required to answer a question, and all the remaining data, even when accurate, becomes noise. YA is about noise portrayed as information.

As opposed, a board allows you to process the data, to discuss, reshape your oppinion, and synthesize as you see it fits your needs.

I believe Vega's critic has to do with this, addin't noise to the noise doesn't necesarily helps.

Even so, from time to time I find myself trying to "educate" someone at YA. I guess this have to do with our moral standards. Who knows.