"Why?" every time I put in a question..my points get lower and lower?
86130
It costs 2 points to post a question.\nThe Yahoo guys thought it would eliminate frivolous, stupid questions.\nI don't know, I see an awful lot of stupid questions out there still.
814316
I get 1 point for voting, but Yahoo is acting up, giving me 2 points sometimes for voting, and sometimes taking points away from me, like this morning when I signed in, they took 11 point's from me.  They are also not fair in their TOS's or in removing questions. I think I can live well without Yahoo, period.
9027
The limit has always been there, but now you can answer more points per level.  The reason is that if there was no such system, a spammer can create a new id and spam the system with hundreds of irrelevant questions and answers.  This way, when you get above a certain level, you've built some trust in the community and you get to ask/answer more questions.\n\nYou'll see some changes in the point systems as Yahoo! fine tunes the product.  It is still in beta, after all.
150989
Points are not as important as enjoying the questions and answers! ;D\n\nYou seem like a nice person, don't get hung up on the points...\n\nSee you round ;D
207306
That's the rules.\nAsk a question, lose points.\nAnswer a question, gain points.
447448
Oops , yes you do...and you are not getting it back either,happened to me...I hit the back button on my browser and just for giggles and shits hit the submit button for my question again...same question twice and 5 points deducted twice...lol
590468
each time you ask a question, you lose 5 points...you also lose 2 points for deleting an answer
1060179
Make sure you're signed in before you answer questions.  That's the only thing I can think of that would keep you from keeping all of your settings/answers.  I hope that doesn't happen again..that really sucks!
70716
Yahoo made some upgrades that makes you lose two points when you ask a question but when you pick a best answer you gain two points so it should even out unless you get no answers, so you should pick mine as the best answer to get points!!!!!! lol
1081091
When you ask a question , your using the services so you have to pay 5 points. However, you get back 3 points when you select a best answer.\n\nFinally, If you do not get a single answer the 5 points are returned back to you.
294751
You change levelas by answering questions.  You get two points for every question you ask.  If it is chosen as the best answer you get ten points.  Just keep answering questions and you keep moving up levels.  Hope this helped some.
43437
It's a policy that Yahoo just implemented to help prevent the abuse of asking stupid questions.  You may have noticed the question spam on the site and Yahoo is trying to get rid of some of this.  You get your points back though after at least 24 hours when you select a best answer or put the questions to a vote.  I personally like it!
707606
Sometimes it backlogs the system and take more time to post to the page, if it posts at all. I've asked questions that also didn't get posted.  But people answered them by going to my profile and accessing them that way.
82775
Since a lot of people were asking stupid questions in order to have more points, Yahoo started decreasing points. But when you choose a best answer for your question, you receive those points back!
264349
I agree - there seems to be a delay in the posting, but I'm sure you're right- I always think I'm the "first" to answer someone's "difficult" question and then all of a sudden there are 10 answers. I just answered one and it still isn't showing up as answered.
429065
You can still gain points (Maybe even enough to move you to the next level to be able to ask more questions) by choosing best answers to your questions. (Yes I would love your ten points) and rating other peoples best answers as well as voting for questions where the asker never choose a best answer. Of course you have daily limits on these as well, but it's something
1028323
Please pick me baby gurl my points total is soooo low!!