What are Yahoo Answers user points? How do you earn them?

Question

What are Yahoo Answers user points? How do you earn them?

Answer 1

it depends really, you can look at it by how much you may have helped others by answering. Points are just like points of trust, the more points, the more trustworthy you are. Example: am i helping you answer your question. if so, my reward is knowing i helped another person out in this world. Do you trust me by what i say or by the amount of best answers ive given.

Its all up to you. Im new at this but I figure if i need someone to answer my question someday, i hope someone does help me out!

Answer 2

They have no value and you can earn them by wating your life away on the computer.

Answer 3

The point system is an incentive for people to participate and "grow" the community.

You noticed that if you ask a question you lose points... and if you kept asking questions without giving something back (answers to other's questions) your point total would eventually wind up at zero and you couldn't ask any more.

By answering somebody else's question, you're helping them AND you're increasing your point total... so you can ask more questions. There are other ways of participating, too. Simply chosing a best answer for your question earns you points... as does logging in to Y! Answers or voting for "Best Answer" on a question that somebody else asked.

Points also get you to different levels and there are more things you can do at the higher levels. This is all explained at the following link:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_sy...

Welcome to the community,

-T