Comments on: Is Yahoo Answers being gamed?

By: jc

jc — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:01:58 +0000

Yahoo! Answers now is like a game for many people. I’m a admin at OnHelp - http://onhelp.org - which is a realtime snapshot of Yahoo! Answers submissions, answers, votes, and comments using Yahoo! Answers api. Users can play Yahoo! Answers with it.

By: Stewtopia » Bringing users back in droves part 2 - Earning points

Stewtopia » Bringing users back in droves part 2 - Earning points — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:38:30 +0000

[…] Yahoo! Answers (whom we’ve talked about before) uses a simpler points system, but to be fair, Epinions has been refined over the years to alleviate problems of gaming the system. Yahoo! Answers will have to create some safeguards to ensure the quality of their site at some point in the future. […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:25:00 +0000

Fair enough… I still think certain projects we talked about would be a lot better, albeit a little more focused.

By: GG

GG — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:49:13 +0000

Ya, but I get the smarmy attitude from Metafilter at times that I get from message board posters. But I know a lot of people who love Metafilter.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:18:21 +0000

I do think that it is a good product and Yahoo! has done a excellent job promoting it. I don’t believe that they have done a good job preventing things like gaming.

I used it when it first came out and discovered that you really needed to go through with machine like precision if you wanted to get anywhere point wise. I answered all sorts of questions and people seemed to like the answers, but the points just didn’t lend itself toward quality, they pointed to quantity.

Ask Metafilter is a much better place for quality answers.

By: GG

GG — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:37:38 +0000

Yahoo! Answers is hilarious. Some of the content that shows up on their home page is embarrassing.

I can get into it for about 5 minutes, but the lack of smart questions kills it for me.