What can Yahoo Answers do to improve the quality of their site?

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What reasonable modifications could Yahoo Answers make to improve the quality of the site?

I dashed onto Yahoo Answers from my laptop and saw that there is a dramatically altered layout to the site, but when accessing it from Safari on my iPad it looks unchanged. I ...show more

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My list mostly mirrors yours. 1. Answer character limits. A character limit is fine. The fact that we...

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Ideas to improve Yahoo Answers?

Lately I find Yahoo Answers has stagnated in being a reliable source for getting good answers for everyday questions. IMHO, I find Yahoo more interested in gaining popularity/internet ranking and has neglected its biggest asset and that its ability to...

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It's not just that too many users are 13 (or act like it), the censors must be 13 on average as well...

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What could the Yahoo! Answers Team do to improve this site?

We all know Yahoo! Answers has its good points and its low points. We all know there are trolls about Yahoo! Answers. We all know about the unfair violation notices everybody seems to receive. But what can the Yahoo! Answers Team do to make this site...

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I would really like the ability to search through my past Q&A and other's Q&A. I often try to...

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Yahoo! Answers Servery: Do the recent changes improve or degrade the site?

How likely would you rate the new changes, and how satisfied are you with them? Here are the recent changes. ( Note, list the changes that are not mentioned in this question) (1) A new question format. ( This allows your questions or answers to look...

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I don't feel qualified to respond to the wider format point because I use an ad-blocker. It seems to...

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Google won't recognize incoming links to my site

I noticed that traffic to my new site "Toppest" http://www.toppest.com/ plunged a couple of days ago. So I checked it on Google, and sure enough, 56 of the 57 pages on my site had been dropped - only the homepage was still indexed. I checked...

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Hi Wunderteam ~ Boy, you ask a toughie - thank heavens your question is "what do you think?"...

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Why has the quality of Yahoo Answers dropped so much over the last few months?

in the summer time it was still okay because there was still alot of people coming on and answering and asking questions. It seems as if as time goes by the quality of the site declines and more people keep on leaving. The question quality has dropped...

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Good question. I have even noticed the drop in the past couple of weeks. When I first joined there were...

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Why yahoo answers should keep the point system if they only seek quality answers?

I have seen most of the answers here in the site, and most of them are so unrelated to the topic, I think answering to accumulate no. of points to be on the top is no fun either or as some of you posted in my previous question stick to what you know...

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That is exactly my point, Maria. I couldn't have put it better. I agree, and I hope your voice is heard...

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Stop me if you've heard this one before - but would a small monthly fee drastically improve Yahoo! Answers?

Let us hypothetically say each user contributed £3.50 ($5.20 or so) per month. And since I am in a good mood, I will even let Y!A keep their dodgy RH corner adverts for extra revenue. The way I see it, paying even a small fee like this would:-...

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Google did this, I think they were charging per question asked. It didn't work and they closed. However...

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Would longer open question time improve Yahoo!Answers?

The breakneck Q&A rhythm is bad for the quality of the answers. If only the "questioners" could wait a little longer, they would almost surely get better, more thorough answers. At least in my case, sometimes I just don't bother to type...

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They've already done that. You cannot close a question before 24 hours pass after asking it. But I think...

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Were Mahalo, Aardvark and Yahoo! Answers better quality services in their earlier days?

This is a follow-up question to How did Quora manage to do what Mahalo, Ask and Yahoo! Answers couldn't in getting such high-quality questions and answers on their site?. I'm wondering if it's too early to judge Quora a success based on how long they...

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So I was one of the founders of Yahoo! Answers (7 years ago) and I think the purpose and target user...

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