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Hi. read what you say in Rating Reminder and you ask for my comments. OK. I have to say i think what you write is rubbish. Because in all my experience the questions with large numbers of stars are the silliest and often not even proper questions but somebody’s extremist private rant or boring personality disorder exposition. I have at the same time seen some really excellent interesting questions which I have starred but nobody else does. So frankly I think you are being utterly ridiculous in contending a question with large numbers of stars is a good one and few stars makes it a bad question. Likewise thumbs up and thumbs down seem to be given by most to say they agree or disagree with that extremist rant or that opinion expressed in an answer, not that the answer is helpful or unhelpful to what information was being sought by the questioner. Trust this is helpful to your research.
I was elated and touched by the prompt and seriously thought out responses I received from various readers to the question I posted.
I felt a rekindling of hope in the goodness of human beings and great pride at being a member of this great “specie”. I am thankful I am not some gnat, rhino or a star in the outer darkness.
I feel that mankind will someday outgrow its wars and other pettiness and achieve the greatness its purpose surely is.
Thank you Yahoo!
I seldom use the star. If someone asks where they can get a Wotsit for thier 1947 Ford Kinardly, and I know, then I will answer, but not star.
The question needs to be thought-provoking, clever if not tricky, before I star.
If others used the same criteria, it would clean up this site. Having said that, it it still the best site I know of.
We all need to be reminded from time to time how to use this site properly,in an ideal world we would all abide by the rules,personally I hope the site users both new and old make a concerted effort to keep it friendly and to keep within the rules for the benefit of all
Climax, I believe you were saying about extremist ranting?
Excuse me… *Cimex*, lol
In practice, the thumb up and down counts are a measure of an answer’s (or an answerer’s) popularity, not of the answer’s quality. Frankly, I don’t think they serve a useful function, other than entertainment value.
You’re worrying about THIS? Do your ACTUAL job…remove the rulebreakers. I’m sick of people breaking the guidelines and not getting suspended, while people who follow the guidelines are getting suspended. Like, Imaka…hello! WAKE UP
It’s pretty obvious to me that there are people on yahoo answers that have more than one sign-in and make use of that fact to get best answer by using all their sign-ins. If it’s a good answer and deserves it then no problem, but replies such as “dunno” and “IDK” that get best answer over legitimate attempts to answer make a mockery of the Star and Thumbs up/down system.
The only problems I have with YA ( UK & Ireland ) are having words removed as not allowed such as ass ( a donkey ) & fag – English slang for cigarette. It is not our fault that the Colonies have hijacked OUR language & we are being dictated to by them – like the slave telling the master what to do
A big annoying problem is the spell checker. It regularly contests words that are commonplace, even ‘asker’, used extensively by Yahoo themselves on the site, isn’t a word apparently.
Sometimes it flags a word as mispelt, then gives you the identical spelling as an alternative, you choose this, then it joins two words together and flags as mispelt, you seperate them and it says, ‘no more spelling errors!’ It isn’t always correct and needs more words adding, especially new words to do with computers and the internet. ‘Online’ should be acceptable these days and not have to be separated as ‘on line’, for example.
Also words that are apparently rude in the U.S but have a different meaning or are very mild and commonplace in the U.K, being changed to ‘***’, and vice versa. It can look like someone used extremely foul language, when they haven’t! Since you recognise British spellings like ‘colour’ over the American, ‘color’ on the UK and Ireland site, then you should pay closer attention to UK meanings too.
‘Oops looks like you may have used too much punctuation’, popping up when I clearly have not.
Commas are commonplace in the English language and the use of brackets not a crime!