IQ test to use A&S? ?

Question

who supports the idea that there should be an IQ test to use the astronomy and space section?

i mean really. i just saw a question that said something along the lines of "scientists are able to confirm that chi, or "energy", is part of every living thing...etc" i mean really...come on!

at the very least make sure the person posting a question can form a coherent sentence or just a phrase. i tired of questions like "what does the name focre that make plents moved around sun."

Answer 1

I don't agree.  I use Yahoo Answers because I ask a lot of questions.  For various reasons, I sometimes ask a trick question (like "What time is it?").  You shouldn't get mad at someone just because you don't understand why they're asking a question.  The reason they're asking shouldn't matter.  Just answer the question and collect your two points.  

Answer 2

I think, reporting unfitting questions is a nice idea. also it would be very good, if Yahoo would have a stricter moderation policy of some sorts for asking already resolved questions. We have around 50 questions everyday in A&S which ask exactly the same (2012, Moon landing hoax), which demotivate really to answer them - copy and paste answers can also be delivered by a bot.

Also, I think that people should be more strict punishing clearly wrong or 2-point-nonsense answers and reward good answers. But that again requires intelligence and wisdom, which you will not find in the Web 2.0. Once you needed skills for taking part in the web, now you can take part without having actually a brain.  

Answer 3

Yes.  How DARE people try and learn more about the universe by asking questions.

IQ has nothing to do with gullibility, btw

Answer 4

this would never fly.

yahoo themselves appear to buy in to all this touchy-feely new age  garbage, and the very worst thing you can do, by their standards, is ridiculing an idiot. no matter how much they deserve it. might damage their self-esteem, you know...

too many questions only need 10 seconds with google or a 3 line back-of-the-envelope calculation, but telling the brats to get off their lazy asses and do their own homework apparently is not how its done.

these are the leaders of tomorrow. tragic.

Answer 5

Censorship in all forms is always bad

Answer 6

If people are willing to learn, then we should encourage them, not give out about their bad command of the English language.

As for chi, if people keep telling you there is such a thing, how are you to know that there isn't, without asking?

Answer 7

I.Q. tests aren't very accurate because they only rate your knowledge and not your understanding, someone could completely illiterate but have lots of understanding on a subject, limiting a persons right to answer & ask questions would be wrong, if you don't like the questions people post then ignore then.

Answer 8

While superficially attractive this proposal would deprive me of one of my most popular past-times: making fun of stupid people.  There is a great satisfaction in calling foolish individuals fools without having one's answer deleted.  I aspire to the mastership of this skill. If the supply of foolish questions were to be choked off by a rationality requirement, where would I get my amusement?  Politely telling 2012 fans, Apollo conspiracy nuts, and alien fanboys that they are mindless nitwits is a avocation!!!  Please do not forbid me this amusement, I beseech thee!!

Answer 9

alternatively,  w/o stupid people, it would be really quiet around here.

i did, however, like rational's answer of an immediate ban for posting 2012, ufo's or Moon landing a hoax.  (actually pretty much any hoax -- world trade center comes to mind.)

and i'd like to add HHO, in any form whatsoever, to the list.

Answer 10

I just wish we could legally report and remove questions that have been asked a thousand times before.  'Why is the sky blue', 'did we really land on the moon', 'what is pluto', and everything 2012 related.  They're just trying to get attention at this point - if they were actually interested in an answer, they could have just looked the last time the exact question was asked.

Answer 11

Chi question, stupid but easily ignored.

Questions that should be met with immediate banishment and beatings:

Was the Moon landing a hoax?

Are UFOs/Aliens real?

Juvenile questions about Uranus.

Anything related to 2012!

Answer 12

I see what you mean! I agree with the IQ test idea! And it would be better if we can give a thumbs up or thumbs down for questions too, not just answers!

Answer 13

It's a nice thought, but it wouldn't eliminate fools and trolls. And some of the seemingly stupid ones are simply very young or fluent in languages other than English. It would be nice though to bring back the option to give a thumbs down to a question.

The web has pretty much always been anarchic. And this part of it is called "Yahoo", after all.

Answer 14

IMO, it would be better if we could give "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" for questions as well as answers, and if someone gets too many of the latter, can't submit for some period of time.