A headache halved
Two weeks ago, we’ve asked you something slightly different: what inspired you to participate in this culture of sharing. Just as we’re all knowledgeable in different areas, our motivations to participate on Answers are manifold.
We’ve picked Tyrese as Best Answerer for its heartfelt reply and his view of the community. Thanks for sharing this with us, Tyrese!
“A problem shared is a problem halved. I believe that everyone has got questions they would like to ask. And everyone knows something and can help one another. This is a great way of building a supporting community.” Read the answer in full here>.
In addition to our Best Answerer, here are some of the great answers you’ve also shared with us. If you answers our question or have provided a great answer to the community, then these great answers are dedicated to you.
– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team
“Having knowledge is totally useless unless you can use it or share it. Being able to help people in some small way with something that’s important to them makes having the knowledge worthwhile.”
“What we know means nothing if we don’t share it with others. Similarly, what we don’t know will remain unknown unless we open up to interact with other people. Here in Yahoo! Answers I learn and teach, I can help and receive help from people from all over the world.”
“I like to be able to think I’ve offered someone sensible and valuable advice. It also fascinates me what other people think, and how we all think differently, so I like to read over other people’s answers and see how I might have answered the question.”
– Elixir
“[I answer for] loads of reasons: recognition from other people when I get a best answer; being part of a community: some people are clever, some funny, some are just weird, but we share something in common here in a world wide community.”
– kenjinuk
“The best of all, I must say is that I have gained a benefit beyond just being happy by the way that I could see my own reflection in a mirror of Yahoo! Answers community inside out. Therefore I am able to rectify and adjust my own being/thinking/attitude to see things clearer.”
– Pat B
“It can be very moving sometimes when people are in difficulty, and the thought that you can hopefully alleviate some of their worry or stress by contributing your two pence worth, is very satisfying. Reading people’s answers is always interesting and sometimes very educational – so thank you to all the answerers and Yahoo! Answers.”
– Pusia
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Yahoo! Answers has been very rewarding insomuch that apart from giving advice I have learnt a fair deal in areas I would not have considered previously. Carry on the good work and all power to the Answers community.
I would like to think that I take what I have learnt throughout my life and share it with other folk. Not all my experiences have been good I might add and this is the thing isn’t it about life we all have dark periods in our lives but mostly we come out the other side all the stronger for them.And this is where I feel we can share and empathise with those who may be experiencing similar dark periods in their lives too.
I like to tell folk that there is always a light at the end of what is sometimes a very long dark tunnel and that life is for living to the full.
Even though I’m older than most and younger than some I also find that I can learn from Q&A too.
Yahoo! Answers is still too small a community for it to be used as a means of finding answers to highly specialised or technical questions, in my opinion. However as the community gets bigger, the rate at which new questions appear increases; making it less likely that each question will be seen and answered by someone who is capable of an adequate response. There needs to be a solution to this problem.
My life’s been one long learning experience, from before even those times when I struggled to learn to walk as a baby. I didn’t give up, though I used to love zooming around the floor as a little kid.
With Yahoo Answers it has become even easier to learn from others, from opinions through advice, to factual information. I love sharing what I know and believe, especially where I see that others have this thirst for knowledge. I’ve been in the Top 10 Answerers in a couple of categories, which I found out by mistake, through curiosity when having a peek at who they were.
I’ve opened my mind somewhat, having also learned from differing opinions, and I have learn tons about things that I had some curiosity about.
I still have many questions and queries about life and stuff, though I tend to help others as much as I can in my life, and this is reflected in Yahoo Answers.
I love the immediacy of questioners getting a range of answers with seconds and minutes from asking, from people all over the world. Better than any search engine, this is about others giving of their experience, stuff that works, as well as advice about what doesn’t and potentially why.
Yahoo Answers signifies the potential of the web to connect others with expertise that’s freely available. And Now. No trips to libraries or other resource centres. And the users are free to take or leave advice as they see fit – there is no pressure, which people often may get from their friends and others that they know, when looking for opinions etc.
I had missed this entry, so first of all I want to thank KoolKat for the heads up
That was a very good question, and I read so many excellent answers, with so many viewpoints which both perfectly illustrate the global community that YA is, and hint at the potential that it could achieve.
Thanks for all you’re doing, UK Yamsters
You get back what you put in. If everybody did one person a favour like giving an anwer and asked them to pass it on the world becomes that much better a place to live in and we all benefit. The bad things in this world are generated by selfish, ungenerous people who make everyone suffer including themselves.
Christian Bale made batman his own. He created a new sense of dignity to the cape crusader with passion, emotion, hatred, love,violence and the best actors in the world
I agreed with you