Why does Your question needs to be at least 20 characters long why cant it be 5 or 10 ?

Question

Why does Your question needs to be at least 20 characters long why cant it be 5 or 10 ?

Answer 1

So someone just doesnt write helppppppp

if a lot of the questions wrote like that it would be annoying because you would ahve no idea if the question related to you or not

Answer 2

It doesn't have to, just add spaces.

Answer 3

So that theres a little detail in the question instead of just a "what?" or "how?"

that being said... most of my question haven't needed more than 10 characters. then you have to fill up the rest of the 10 with gibberish. annoying.

Answer 4

i suppose its to stop people writing a small word and expecting it to explain exactly what they mean.  

Answer 5

because anything that short is more of a discussion topic rather than a question.  

Answer 6

Because its someones job at yahoo to make up needless rules.  Got to keep people employed you know!