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Germany
10 reviews
45 helpful votes
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It a great place to get some answers fast but unfortunately you have no guarantee that it's also a quality or helpful answer. Some actually have no value whatsoever. Anyhow overall I use and like yahooanswers.

Date of experience: March 28, 2013
Missouri
128 reviews
299 helpful votes
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You can get good information from them but they're too mean or at least they were when I was a member. They gave me a permanent suspension for linking to paid articles of mine in my posts. Although their policies forbade using the forum for commercial purposes, they didn't make it clear in their policies that you couldn't do what I did - I tried explaining that to them but they didn't want to reason.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Cambodia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Very helpful
May 1, 2015

Very helpful when you don't know the answers and are afraid to ask your friends.
I am usually pretty shy about asking questions about fixing computers and whatnot, but I am very happy to know I have Yahoo Answers behind me.

Date of experience: May 1, 2015
Pennsylvania
9 reviews
54 helpful votes
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Don't expect many good answers on the site, it's 1/3 trolls, 2/3 idiots (hard right-wing Republicans/Christian creationists)who don't know what they are talking about. I haven't used it in years so maybe it changed But I doubt it, I was banned for no reason but I'm abusing I offended people.

Date of experience: August 23, 2017
Illinois
7 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Yahoo Answers is very helpful when you don't know the answers and are afraid to ask your friends.
I am usually pretty shy about asking questions about fixing computers and whatnot, but I am very happy to know I have Yahoo Answers behind me.

Date of experience: September 9, 2013
Texas
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I reported to Yahoo Answers that someone on their staff sent was stalking me through my Yahoo account (down to telling me people in my home own stock and where we live though our account is set up as private) and received no reply whatsoever from the Answers team, and within two weeks my Answers account was suspended under an unexplained premise.

Yahoo Answers has been totally unresponsive to emails, and a registered letter has been mailed to their offices in Sunnyvale, California.

Date of experience: September 18, 2014
106 reviews
432 helpful votes
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Horrible Website
March 22, 2017

I'll state what many others have stated. I used to help people in the technology section around 8-9 years ago. At the time, the website was relatively alright and most people were helpful. Now, it's nothing but a sensational area of trolling and often, Yahoo Answers became a laughing stock posted everywhere while people laugh at the ridiculously stupid questions people ask.

In addition to this, when I asked questions out of the need of genuine help, the answers I received were downright rude, unhelpful or answers for no reason. For example, I got answers like "I don't know", "figure it out yourself", "do your research *pastes link here*".

As someone else also mentioned, Yahoo Answers community are just people giving replies with no way to correct any answers that could incorrect and even potentially dangerous. People are often racist on the website too. And it's sad people can just reply with anything and become Top Contributors while spouting out ridiculous opinions to things they know nothing about.

Most of the things I need help with are found on Quora and Reddit therefore I avoided Yahoo Answers. Even people there are almost 100 times much nicer than people in Yahoo Answers. Every time I click on a Yahoo Answers link to find answers, the replies are always so stupid that it infuriates me. Got a problem with your game? Stuck on a math homework? Yeah, you could get decent responses about those. Otherwise stay away from this website.

Date of experience: March 22, 2017
Ohio
76 reviews
124 helpful votes
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Useful
August 8, 2018

Depending on what you're asking you can get real and useful answers. I use it if I cant find something on google but I'm sure somebody somewhere knows. Yahoo answers has a great community of people.

Date of experience: August 8, 2018
Switzerland
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Yahoo Answers is a great community. Whenever you have questions, you can ask them and get immediately responses. However not every answer is good but most of them are.

Date of experience: December 22, 2013
Texas
39 reviews
136 helpful votes
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Seems the number of people who troll in certain categories (Society & Culture, Religion, and Detroit Travel section especially) highly outnumber those who are on their for serious helpful answers and serious about answering questions to the best of their ability.

Date of experience: January 23, 2016
GB
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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The community on Yahoo Answers is the worst. You can't ask any questions without being abused or trolled. Full of horrible assy people. It's perfect for idiots.

Date of experience: May 9, 2021
Alabama
10 reviews
57 helpful votes
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Yahoo Answers had the opportunity to help create an awesome place where genuine questions could be answered properly. It lacks editorial control, or at least crowdsourced editorial control. Wikipedia might have errors, but it has a huge dedicated community that corrects errors and prevents bad information from being published. Yahoo Answers does nothing to prevent bad answers to questions from being published PERMANENTLY. That bad answer then becomes searchable on the internet and can never be updated or changed! SERIOUSLY!

Date of experience: December 5, 2012
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Repair Part Delivery
March 18, 2021

Excellent price and delivery was earlier than expected, I will use them company again and recommend their services to others.

Date of experience: March 18, 2021
Pakistan
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I am very impressed by Yahoo and Yahoo Answers. All queries are labeled by category, such as Business & Finance, Computers & Internet, and Pregnancy & Parenting. You can update your questions and it will automatically saved in My Q&A, also you can ask Yahoo to e-mail you with the latest answers to your post. As it is a final product, Yahoo Answers offers many more questions and answers. Advanced Search lets you filter by keyword, category, and the number of thumbs-up ratings.

Yahoo Answers lets you rack up points according to how often and how well you answer other users' questions. Your account opens with a balance of 100 points, and you earn more according to how often and how well you answer other users' questions. A bar graph on your profile page shows how many times you've asked and answered questions. Each question remains open for seven days, during which time other users can provide answers and you can vote for the best answer. So it is very helpful in every manner because there are lots of options to chose the right answer.

Date of experience: July 20, 2012
South Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ilke to be a consultant of emotional questions and ienjoy people who wants answer from outside person not connected to the problem

Date of experience: April 24, 2019
Wisconsin
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Dumpy hell $#*! staff
November 27, 2023

This is a for profit nursing home disabled elderly are neglected I was harassed cuz I'm competent. RN Lou Ann is a worthless and a $#*! $#*! nurse who abuses her 4 yr old daughter lies and protects a $#*! CNA Lou Ann $#*! YOURSELF $#*! you should work at McDonald's you dumb $#*! $#*! OFF $#*!-FACE WORTHLESS $#*! LOSER $#*! mom and nurse I'll get that hole shut down. Tomah nursing and rehabilitation center aka $#*!ING hell hole for abusing residents Brandi you're as stupid and fake as Barbie ya fat ugly monster $#*! YOU TWATWAFFLE puta. If you send or allow a person you care about ya do not love them. The staff all of them are $#*!. Snake face aka Ciara ya ugly monster $#*!ING $#*! I turned your twatwaffle $#*! in too ya Medusa $#*! $#*! OFF

Date of experience: November 27, 2023
RU
9 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I like this servise!
August 1, 2013

I like this servise! Its easy to use, i can ask some questions and get real help from people :) ! Exellent!

Date of experience: August 1, 2013
France
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Yahoo Answers is populated by too many trolls and too many pranksters. It is more a joke than a real source of information.

Date of experience: February 13, 2019
New Jersey
10 reviews
73 helpful votes
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Basically in the title. Yahoo answer, is place where you ask a question or help answer a few. There are plenty of categories for different question such as:

Arts & Humanities
Beauty & Style
Business & Finance
Cars & Transportation
Computers & Internet
Consumer Electronics
Dining Out
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Music
Environment
Family & Relationships
Food & Drink
Games & Recreation
Health
Home & Garden
Local Businesses
News & Events
Pets
Politics & Government
Pregnancy & Parenting
Science & Mathematics
Social Science
Society & Culture
Sports
Travel
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If the OP (Original poster) thinks your comment is the most helpful, then you'll be awarded as the best answer. You could also dislike, like or comment on fellow people's comments. You can follow questions as well. But there are quite a few problems with this website and here's one of them moderation. Sometimes moderations seems non-existent, people will ask the most offensive and troll questions and sometimes they won't be taken down. They'd rather take down offensive comments for some reason. Another problem I come across is that the community is full of trolls. They ask questions just to get attention, mess with people and purposely lend out the wrong information. That's also where the moderators are suppose to come in but don't. The customization to profiles are sort of generic, and blocking is only good for people not sending you emails. Uploading pictures is little annoying because they only show links. Yahoo answers is a fun place to ask and answer questions but suffers from a trolling community, half-$#*! moderation, and being very average when it comes to the little things.

Date of experience: November 19, 2015
Washington
10 reviews
57 helpful votes
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Too many trolls
June 29, 2017

The concept of Yahoo Answers is pretty good, it is a pretty good idea. However, it has an issue with trolls, spammers, and rants.

Date of experience: June 29, 2017

Overview

YahooAnswers has a rating of 2.1 stars from 25 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. YahooAnswers ranks 71st among Question And Answer sites.