Why are so many people ready to post a question here without first Googling the question? Lazy? Self absorbed?
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I have asked myself the same question.  \n\nI suspect that many of the people here are:\n\n1.  very young\n2.  have multiple accounts and are playing games for points accumulation.\n3.  Are looking for someone else to give them their homework answers (which would fit in to your lazy theory)\n\n\nPerhaps I'm wrong, but so many of the answers I've seen are shockingly sophomoric.  So much so that they could only have come from children.   Now, this could be a helpful tool for kids to seek input from others, but there really should be a mechanism in place to prevent some of the absurdity that is present.  \n\nFor example:  (Hey Yahoo, are ya' listening?)  If someone submits a post that is just ridiculous, the other members should be able to penalize the person who posted.  \n\nAnd, since so many of the answers to ridiculous items specifically make reference to thanking the poster for the two points, it would seem that the points matter.  So, I suggest that stupid posting just for the points be an offense that is punishable by a significant reduction in points, say 50 points!!!\n\nJust a thought!\n\nSorry Punchline.  Didn't mean to step on your toes here.  I do think that the laziness to which you refer and the game-playing that I referenced are linked.
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There are a lot of younger ones on here that do not have the knowledge or experience to answer those kinds of question.  I have found some people here that do have the expertise for that type of question, just that they don't have the time to be on here a lot so many good question get little or no response.
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I think a lot of people want to answer questions that no one is asking them.  So they create "questions" that allow them to express themselves.
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It depends on your question. Certain questions have standard answers - which can be answered without much effort. Even if people are not aware of the right answer a simple browsing might be sufficient. Whereas the other questions for which you normally dont receive any answers really require some serious thinking. A lot of reading is required & further some really logical thinking will also be involved. Many are trying to answer as much questions as possible in the shortest time. I feel many of them are not ready to spend so much time answering a single question - where they could have answered at least a dozen!
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Im not sure if thats true but it seems that most people are only interested in the answer to their question and dont want to go through reading the whole "why" part.  (aka people dont want to read alot.)
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I agree. It could be that the opportunity to ask an otherwise embarrassing question within the private sanctum of the Internet, fields their curiosity. Perhaps when we get older we stop asking questions because we don't like the answers. I like to answer questions, that's why I sign in. I like to spell correctly, that's why I use the spell check.
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do you really "need a lot of help"?\n\nIsn't the answer so obvious it wasn't worth posting?
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I think some of the people who answer on here rush to try and answer the question first..thus they make mistakes and don't bother to spell check...I really don't know why they do this...It's not as if points make prizes.
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You shouldn't erase your questions, that way they will be up if others have the same question, they can get the answer quickly.  Why be greedy, and keep the answer to yourself? :)
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On some things I think there are certain points about subjects they may not find till they've searched and searched.  They can get several answers here and compare to their own even.  HOWEVER, if you are ok to ask that kind of question..you should be ok to hear this.  Why are you asking this question, the same question that 500 people before you have also asked???  And yet we're all still here asking and answering!  Just have fun!
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Probably to avoid letting someone create a new account and begin spamming the system automatically. It seems like the folks at Yahoo have to remove questions by hand, so it makes sense that they don't want to get overwhelmed.
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This is not a question but it only goes to show that all questions aren't legetimate.I think some people just don't have anything else to do including myself sometimes.Most but not all questions could be answered anyway by typing them into any search engine like Yahoo or Google which is what most people who answer them do including myself.
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I would have to say that would be the obvious thought. However, some people do not know how to surf the web in order to find the answers. Or even how to pose the question in the first place. I for one am glad that this thing is here; because I am not good at finding answers on the world wide messy web.
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Let's be fair. Not everyone knows about Yahoo! and Wikipedia. Not everybody has a proactive personality and many people are more used to passively asking questions than seeking the answers themselves. Also, there's no reason we have to accept Wikipedia as law - it's written by the average person too and is not incapable of error. They may think that many heads are better than one.\n\nAdditionally (here goes my 10 points for best answer) why don't people check the 'similar answers' function when entering their quesion or search Y! Answers to see if it's been asked :) This question has, several times.\n\nLastly, how come the second answerer doesn't have an id? That's bizarre...
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I was just about to post a question saying that same thing!  The whole reason I got on Yahoo! Answers this morning was because I knew there would be several questions on here and someone would answer telling why we couldn't log in this morning.  But I didn't realize that almost every user on here was going to ask the same question over and over and over and over again!  Can't these people look at the recently asked questions?  Isn't it common sense to think that the question has already been asked?  It's just like those girls who keep asking "Could I be pregnant?"
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I know that I don't usually because most of them already have several good answers. Occasionally, I browse and answer the ones that have less than 3 answers or interesting ones. Some people are too lazy to go to page 2.. lol
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I have never imagined there could be so many people so lazy they couldn't even use a search engine.\nI guess it is easier to let someone else do it for you.