You asked, we listened
Back in March, we launched the “Suggested Questions” module on the homepage. Suggested Questions are intended to provide our most active users with a list of questions we think match their area of expertise.
Since launch we have been taking on board your feedback about this feature and have now made some improvements to this that include:
- Resolved questions will be removed more effectively to leave you with only a selection of open Suggested Questions to answer
- Questions will be matched to you much more quickly so you can always see the freshest and most relevant Suggested Questions
- Improved the relevancy to ensure we deliver your questions only to the most appropriate answerers
Still not seeing Suggested questions? Remember you need you to be active on a topic for a certain time before we can build up enough information on your areas of expertise before we can start offering you suggested questions.
We hope these changes will improve you experience with Suggested Questions. Remember that you can modify your profile settings if you want to see a different number of Suggested Questions. And that only you will see the questions related to your activity, not the wider community.
Please continue to share your constructive feedback with us and we will keep working on making this feature more relevant and faster in delivering you the questions you want to see.
– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team
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Is there any way you can stop really stupid questions regarding the sea? it does not forgive idiots,they just become dead idiots,unless the are rescued by the men who have to put their own lives in danger to do so.
Yet again yahoo have the oppertunity to show they will act against trolls and general pests. Yet again they have bloody failed.
This website has gone to the dogs. Thanks for that yahoo…lazy bunch of ********
Totally agree with David Peppiatt. I always have a RNLI sticker in my down stairs front window & contribute a few ££. I adore the sea but have Respect for it.
from a Land lubber!
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Yet again yahoo have the oppertunity to show they will act against trolls and general pests. Yet again they have bloody failed.
This website has gone to the dogs. Thanks for that yahoo…lazy bunch of ********
I can’t agree more, yahoo has gone to the dogs and yahoo have failed us again. It continues to allow trolling and it continues to fail to respond to our protests.
It continues to run an unfair violation process which does not allow effective appeal, and does allow effective abuse and victimisation of it’s users.
It fails to recognise the real trolls and the mechanisms they use, such as programmes which search out specified categories then spam it with it ads, and cares not one iota about the bad feeling there incredibly mute customer services department instills in us when our protests get answerd by a machine.
Yahoo continues to insult it’s users, who incredibly still continue to provide it with content. You need to understand yahoo that you treat us with contempt, and that contempt is felt.
I have had many accounts with yahoo, all used correctly and with a total of in excess of 20,000 points on yahoo answers, but have deleted them all, this being my first ever account, and my last ever.
I will use this on yahoo answers for a day or two and the moment I get a violation will be the same moment that i say goodbye to yahoo and all it’s services forever.
I have not enjoyed it yahoo, because you yourselves spoil it for your users.
Oh and remember what you did to my pc as well!
Oh dear – not one single on-topic comment!
Regarding the new Suggested Questions feature (the original subject of this thread) I like it. I have seen some negative comment about it, but it seems to me that it does just what it was intended to do:- It offers me questions in categories where I have answered before and, although I may not be able to answer the actual questions suggested, it does give me a quick way to get to that category. I think the people who complain about the feature probably just answer questions randomly from the All Categories list.
I would like to know what you are doing to address the heartfelt and honest criticisms of people like Chris here. At least show you care, at least give him the respect of an answer right here. From what I’ve seen on the Answers UK blog, you aren’t even keeping it clear of irrelevant posts, and that does not inspire users with confidence.
Count me IN
I enjoy Suggested Questions enormously
More than useful. Much more.
A nice idea, but it would be useful if the questions displayed matched my preferences! i.e. I have my yahoo answers set to only show me questions from the UK and Ireland, but the suggested questions keeps showing me ones from the US!
1. Well, yes, this feature has improved, it does quite well at suggesting relevant questions, but there are still problems with it. I often find that suggested questions have been deleted. Also, it would be a vast improvement if you could filter out the suggestions that already quite clearly have good answers … there is no point in trying to outdo a perfectly decent answer. Couldn’t you programme the suggested questions feature to take account of the thumbs and the number of answers, so it only suggests those questions which really would benefit from my attention? Maybe you could even let users adjust the parameters, so I could specify for example “less than 6 answers, average of thumbs up less than 0.5 per answer”. That would be so much more effective. But yes, it is an improvement.
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2. Another suggestion, not entirely unrelated, if I may. I like answering in Religion & Spirituality (all English questions), but the sheer number of questions is a real problem. I would have to spend hours every day looking at the questions just to keep up with what’s there, and I would never get time to answer in my other categories. Could you please think about working a fix so that R&S users can filter open questions by religion (eg, paganism / wicca) … the search feature is quite hopeless for this purpose, unfortunately. Ideally, I would like to see subcategories in R&S – as it is, it is just huge and pretty user-unfriendly.