"Your report matter!" to Yahoo! Answers

The soul of Yahoo! is to be found in its "Yahoo! Answers" service, remarkable for the quality of its users (How is babby formed?) and for the quality of itself.

"Not everyone is entitled to influence the Answers community," the site warns. When that Yahoo veep said the company was spread like a thin coating of peanut butter over the internet, perhaps that's what he meant. Ask, answer, discover!

[#1 posted by John Brownlee , June 25, 2008 10:35 AM]

It is perhaps appropriate that the Yahoo Answers smiley has an emoticon-ized sphincter in the middle of his forehead.

[#2 posted by Jake0748 , June 25, 2008 10:39 AM]

Thanks John! Your comment matter!

[#3 posted by dculberson , June 25, 2008 11:17 AM]

I thought it was a just-beginning-to-gush gunshot wound to the head.

[#4 posted by Elvis Pelt , June 25, 2008 9:12 PM]

Poor Yahoo. Can't do anything, anything right these days.

(I'll vote for just-beginning-gush-sph...uh, maybe not.)

[#5 posted by travelina , June 26, 2008 3:55 AM]

I think they probably meant "You're report matter." A common mistake.

[#6 posted by historyman68 , June 26, 2008 4:19 AM]

I've actually had some good experience with Yahoo! Answers. The aggregated answering community is pretty helpful.

[#7 posted by gobo , June 26, 2008 2:00 PM]

Yahoo! Answers is a dangerous place.

I fiddled with it briefly, answering questions, racking up points, and rolling my eyes at the lameness of the questions before generally giving up out of boredom.

A month later, Yahoo! Answers had a complaint registered about one of my answers (about using iTunes? huh?) and my Yahoo! account -- including my professional and *paid* Small Business account and my Flickr stream -- was deleted with no recourse allowed.

When Answers works, it's pretty nifty. But they have a zero-strike policy. Be careful.