What is your reason for Joining Yahoo Answers?

Question

Did any of you have a particular reason why you joined at first or did your meaning to it come later on or do you not really have a reason at all?

Can you imagine some one wanting to join and waste time daily hours of it just to try to defame another or pretend to be another? Answering and Asking as if they are them.

I joined to try to offer what knowledge I have to share with other not just Martial Artists but people as a whole. I never in my dreams would have imagined the kind of troll activity allowed on Yahoo.

So what is your purpose for joining and what do you think their reason is?

I still plan to help others as best as I can in MA or any category I answer.

Would you ever join for any other reason than to answer and help or ask and get help? Does any one really think this is a competition or game?

Seriously, please tell me why you joined Y!A and then ask yourself if you are still doing what you joined it for or not.

Thanks all!

Answer 1

Hi wulf

My reason was purely out of boredom! lol

I work 12 hours shifts, nights, weekends even Christmas!

So 99.9 percent of my posts are done during works time!

Yahoo answers helps pass the time when i get bogged down with network and IT issues. ;-)

Far too many things to do with my own time! :-)

Best wishes

idai

Answer 2

Bored

Answer 3

The way I started was pretty weird. Yahoo! Answers was just starting and they would post the questions in the opening page of Yahoo.

One day they posted a question asking which country was better, mine (Uruguay) or Argentina. There's always been some national pride for us to be distinguished from Argentinians so I reacted by answering the question which, on top of that, was chosen as 'Best Answer'. I thought it was fun. But then I forgot all about it.

Last December, for the holidays, I got sick with a contagious disease so I had to stay home all by myself, and feeling pretty miserable. Since there wasn't much I could do but wait, I started surfing the net and out of curiosity I started answering and found it a good past time. Then, the inevitable happened, I got hooked! Yahoo! answers is highly addictive especially for me, in the Languages Section since I'm a language teacher, I speak other languages and I'm into Linguistics, Methodology and Phonetics.

I must admit at first it was like a game but I must be really clear about this concept. I am NOT competing against other answerers to get points. I'm competing with myself since many questions allow me to learn other regional variations of Spanish and I am very often into researching in the field of Linguistics.

In short, it's a challenge for myself and an opportunity to push myself into learning more.

Now that I've expressed it, I feel pretty selfish. I should have said I want to share with others what I know but, bottom line, it's not totally true.

Answer 4

Well, I actually joined to ask a question. But even though I'm not an expert in martial arts, I do have a decent amount of knowledge about them, having dabbled in different arts before. So I decided to answer questions which I know how to answer...I mean, since I had already created an account, why not?

Answer 5

i joined because i think my advice that i give to people is pretty helpful. i like to help people make the right choices, and point them in the correct path. i tell them how it is, but in a nice way. however, i think some of the things people put on here are a waste of space and inappropriate.

Answer 6

I first joined for my daughter and school to do research and ask questions but not cheat of course.

Then I got hooked on one of her home work assignments trying to get the answer and I have liked it ever since.

It is a good place to go to for help or to give help as long as you know it is good advice

That is the only problem I have seen on Yahoo is the lack of control they have over Trolls.  In some areas Trolls run the whole show, in other areas like MA we have it under control.

So I joined for my daughter originally

Answer 7

I started out wanting to answer some questions on r&s.. stayed for the fun.. the time when R&S had a mayor and "city council", the "get to know your neighbor nights", the drinking game, the theme days..

Now, I'm just here for the cupcakes.

Answer 8

bored at work, it's educational.

Answer 9

I joined because, I might just make a little difference in someones life for even one day. I try to help people and if they don't like or want my option then that is their choice.

Edit - Also having a go at the trolls can be fun as well.

Answer 10

Well at first I joined because I had some questions that I couldn't find an answer to and a friend requested Y!A. I'm kind of still doing what I joined it for but I use it more to help others and learn from some of the top contributors. Also, yes I think some people are here for the points, not me, because I see some answers that just say thanks for the 2 points.

Answer 11

I am of the persuasion that everyone is entitled to my opinion and insight, whether they like it or not...lol

Seriously, I joined to ask a question. When I discovered the martial arts forum, I stuck around to learn. I discovered rather quickly that there were some seriously misguided, misinformed, and truly ignorant people submitting questions AND answers that needed correcting. And that there were some people here who truly seemed to know what they were talking about, and might actually be able to offer me a different point of view from whch to view my martial arts journey. So, I took it upon myself to answer what questions I had the answer to, offer opinions to questions that asked for it, read, study, research and understand the answers and opinions offered to questions I was unsure of, and to "correct" the mysogynistic little trolls that roam throughout the digital universe in search of billy goats they could feed on to bolster their own woefully inadequate self esteem. My participation has, off and on, earned me a TC badge in the MA forum, although occasionally life happens and I have to take care of that before I can play here.

And, as luck would have it, I have been introduced to Judomofo's unbeatable Chi Building course, been exposed to the wonders of SuPeRkArAtE, and discovered that if YouTube is any authority, the only Martial arts that is effective for anything other than putting your belt on properly so as to keep your pants from falling down is the much esteemed, wildly popular, and ultimately undefeatable "MMA".

and I think to myself.....What A Wonderful.....WOOORLD......

OOOOOOOH YEEEEAHHH....