Are there any adults on this site? Most questions & answers sound like they're written by teenagers.?
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Before the children told their friend, the site was mostly adults.\n\nYahoo believes that their numbers for Users is great but does not understand that right now for every 10 adults, there are 90 kids, some as young as 8 or 9 (the limit is 13).\n\nI'm 58 and have been here since last December when it started.
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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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When this was fairly new, there were a lot of intelligent questions and equally informative answers.  The points was just a race among answers to get to the top of the leaderboard but that did not diminish the quality of intelligent answers. However, as soon as more people teens, atheists and pervs invaded this site, the quality diminished. \n\nIt's very hard to find a question worthy of spending your time answering especially if those that get chosen as best answer are usually the one's the askers find funny or hilarious. However, since this is like a drug that one gets addicted to, some answerers answer whatever question they can - stupid or not - for the points maybe or even for a sense of consolation that they are not wasting their time on this site.
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I believe there are a lot of children here however,  the reality is we just have a bunch of immature, under educated, overly sexed, or sexually frustrated adults on Yahoo Answers.\n\nAt least use the spell check provided.
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I like to answer questions, but many of the answers people give are highly questionable! Especially those that are seeking to get their two points by writing something stupid like 'x' or 'don't know' or 'haha'. Or those that write huge volumes of material and quote wikipedia as their source. Very few people seem to write anything which is their own material; they merely copy it from internet sites. I believe that is not in the true spirit of Yahoo Answers. So would people please think of their own answers!
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Yes, we certainly have kids asking questions, but that doesn not explain some questions that are asked. We so called adults fare no better!!! \n\nI agree with those who answered ahead of me, Parents need to take care of thier children & monitor thier activities over the net. Yahoo answers has too many questions that are not even fit for adults.
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I personally think it's a good thing that people are asking questions. Reguardless of age. You dont know who is asking these questions. Not many families talk to their children about sex. Kids go out there and try and learn from the tv or whatever. Its people that aren't educated about sex that are out there spreading diseases. The more knowledge someone has on a topic the better off they are. Knowledge is power folks. Whatever questions you have, if I have something to offer I will give my best and honest answer I can. I think that's the reason for a site of this nature.
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that's true. there are some very immature kids who ask stupid questions and answer stupid. like, why would someone answer "i dunno"? then don't answer if you don't know! but then again, I'm 15 and i answer good and I'm not immature. and think of how easy it would be for kids to just make up a fake birthday or a fake email and say there over 18. its not hard at all. it would probably just end up being a waste of time, useless, and hard to keep up with.\nand its not even a big deal. just don't answer their questions- its that simple. And if you want to help them, do it. it's now like their hurting anybody. They just want some answers! =)
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I think maybe they should have an +18 section. Some people are asking genuine questions about "adult" subjects and they are being deleted.
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The Yahoo Answers team can't police everything. I'm not sure they should even try.\n\nHonestly, I don't know why you don't pull your kids out of Answers if it worries you so much. There are a lot of jerks on here, and a lot of the content is explicit and offensive.\n\nIt probably shouldn't be available for kids, but here's the thing, most of the people spouting the offensive stuff ARE kids. \n\nYou obviously don't remember what it was like to be a kid, but kids are the most foul mouthed, violent and mean creatures on the planet.\n\nGrownups are hopefully more mature. But given the ridiculous cross posting of your frankly embarrassing rants, I'm not sure you're the one I want policing maturity here.
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This is pretty much sex education 101. Some of the juvenile questions asked on this section are just insane. Come on people, can we not think of more thought or debate raising questions than the repetative asking of how to make your partner orgasm? Come on people!
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The site is used by people all over the globe. Many of them are not native English-speakers. But most of the others are kids and teens who really don't care about communicating correctly. They also have probably never been taught to write correctly. And they seem to enjoy using their own net-speak, which gives them a sense of community and identity that separates them from adults. And then there are those who are in a hurry to ask or answer questions. And finally, there are those who are too stupid, ignorant, or lazy to use correct spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation -- all the things that are required to communicate in writing.
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They're very immature, and/or so insecure that they have to put someone else down to feel better about themselves.  \n\nI personally love this site, because I like to get others' opinions on issues as well as give advice, if it's asked for.  I take it reasonably seriously.  Even if someone's asking a silly question on purpose, I'll probably answer whimsically, but never in a derogatory fashion.\n\nDon't worry, they're not the majority on here!  :)
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I'm an adult and use Yahoo! 360, but I still find some things people put on there inappropriate. Try finding a site that's designed for adult content rather than just one that's designed for adults.
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There is relatively little control over what's posted and most of the posters seem to be teenagers or at least, extremely immature.  This site will probably go the way of many others unless some kind of filtering is put in place.  For example charge a token membership fee.
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Sure do and try to ask them in a positive way as well. Man i find a lot of question on here that make no sense at all like they are asked by 7 year olds that have failed spelling in school. I agree it is hard figure some of these out for sure. But the internet has no posted age limit. You know right above the box where you type your answer it says CHECK SPELLING. Go figure..
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Kudos for this question!\n\nWhen I read through some of the questions and answers on here, I often find myself grinding my teeth in frustration over the spelling and grammar of too many postings. It seems to me people lack pride, or they don't realize they are presenting themselves to the entire world as illiterate idiots. I also think too many kids/young adults today believe dumb is "cool" - guess what, kiddos, it's not!\n\nBut then again, after seeing a public school teacher (of all people!) in a news interview several years ago say that for her job, "I teaches English," I shouldn't be surprised....