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Featured User – Moose

Our featured user for this week, Moose, has certainly shown that wisdom doesn’t only come with age. Still a teenager, working hard for his A Levels, Moose has delved deep into the world of PCs and the web and become a pro in the process. Standing proudly at level 6, he has been spreading his techie knowledge around the Computers & Internet category on Answers for nearly a year.

We all know that computers can be very baffling for some. For Moose, they’ve always been plain simple. By helping novices to understand what a ‘program’ is and explaining to others the differences between programs such as Word and Excel, Moose has built up over 11,000 points. Of course, his PC wisdom stretches much further as he has solved Mommakat420’s webcam worries and given step by step instructions to another user who was puzzled when it came to setting up a wireless mouse.

In his own words, Moose says: “My main interests are simple computers; I live for the software and technical help, and plan to study more into the Internet.” Judging from his answers, he already seems like a little wizard of the World Wide Web. When Internet jargon such as ‘spam’ left an Answerer confused, and a dictionary offered no help, our young expert was there to present them with a great definition.

Firewalls are another aspect of computers, which haven’t always been the easiest thing to make sense of. Moose advises a user well though when he says: “It [a firewall] will slow down programs that run networks online, but we are talking about less then a second’s difference. A firewall simply blocks unwanted traffic such as hackers. If you disable your firewall you won’t have a PC system within a few hours”

When speaking about Answers, Moose explains: “…if I know that I can advise users with any valuable information then I love to post an answer”. Well, that is definitely one of the best reasons to visit the site, and it’s highly encouraging to know that young masters like Moose are regular users.

We’d like to congratulate you Moose and as always, appreciate your incredible contribution to Answers.

– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team