What are the strengths and weaknesses of Yahoo! Answers?

Question

What are the strengths and weaknesses of Yahoo! Answers?

Answer 1

Strength - all who ask strong question gets the weak answers!

Weakness -  all who ask weak question gets the strong answers!

Answer 2

Strengths:

Opportunities for intelligent discussion about a variety of issues;

I've met many new friends from around the world;

It's an ideal forum in which to share opinions, consider opposing viewpoints, learn new information.

Weaknesses:

Tolerating all the childish, immature, juvenile, obscene, crude 'answers' which are only insults and diminish the integrity of this forum;

Putting up with unfair 'violations notices';

Poor format for printing out best answers (which I keep on file for reference);

Preponderance of misspellings, poor grammar, improper punctuation, terrible sentence structure and incorrect use of the English language are all indicative of a dumbed-down America          -RKO-  07/14/08

Answer 3

strenght - its fun

weakeness- ppl get picked on when others get the wrong end of the stick and it ends in tears before bedtime. xx

Answer 4

Strengths are you gain knowledge and learn other peoples opinions.

Weeknesses it's spoiled by petty minded bigots and trolls who do their best to spoil it for the gunuine users.

Answer 5

A lot of the time it is more of a social networking service than a place to get answers from people who are actually qualified to give them. Every once in while you see derogatory questions and answers. You don't necessarily know that the information is accurate. On the upside, maybe you can get some good answers to your questions. Overall, Yahoo! Answers is a good thing.

Answer 6

the strengths are that you gain knowledge from other peoples questions and you can ask your own and people will answer them for you.

The weaknesses are people stop answering your questions after about 30 minutes and you lose points for asking a question

Answer 7

Anybody can ask or answer. That's both.

Answer 8

people get to involed and make stuped answers and somtiimes upset some people but the good side is instant answers from real people !

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Answer 9

The strength - you can say almost anythng you want

The weakness - you cant actually get your hands on the ones who are saying bad things about you

Answer 10

Strengths : You can find things out that you never knew before. Everyone has their opinion, and it's a fun way to learn.

Weaknesses: People spamming, answering questions stupidly just to get points. Stupid questions.

Answer 11

it is a good laugh all the time and very good for information on almost anything.

Answer 12

Always learning ... I don't think that's a strength or a weakness personally.