why do people waste bandwidth on 'answers' with political proselytizing?
541649
These people are just so judgemental.  They are not open to anyone elses opinion but their own.  They have usually come from very strict moral upbringings and it's the only thing they understand.  As to why they argue its cos they are totally convinced they are right and if the whole world saw things their way it would be a better place.  Oh how deceived they are lol.x
1158731
It is because liberals seem to sing the same song all the time. It gets boring. The comments seem to center around hating bush/war/conservatives. I understand from your standpoint that it is hard to be positive and not use canned talking points. I challenge a position or make a dig\nI don't waste my time tearing the person down much, just the Idea or position. I have slipped that being said.\nLiberals don't like me much. I share that back. Your question is rather good actually. Good Day
14641
well i guess its all depends what your looking for some people are actually looking for answers,, some are brushing up on there ignorance and some also play it like a game .. the purpuse is the way you use  if you see no purpose in it then thats up to you
763413
No, these views represent lazy thinking.  These issues take serious thought and often require years of work to do.  In a political climate, people want immediate gratification, and bombing seems like that shortcut.
827119
Depends on the time and day.  You get some ardent left wingers posting here as well.  In true form, some conservatives accuse Y! Answers as being controlled by liberals, because they find themselves in the minority.  Same shtick they pull against the "liberal media" despite the popularity of Rush, Faux News, The National Review, and the Washington Times.  Helps them suppress those voices even more so, in an inane attempt to "balance the discourse".\n\nHowever, there are vehement wackos on both sides, and it's easy to get sucked into the rancor when someone asks a particularly loaded, insulting question.
1073792
One thing I've learned on yahoo answers is the person who posts the question really only wants opinions that support their own. They aren't interested in intelligent debate.
948642
It's hard to declare a truce when christians are using a political forum to legislate their beliefs and literally impose them on others.  BUT, one of the best things about this forum is our freedom to be thoughtful, snotty, loving, or stupid... we get to choose what we want to say and how we want to say it.  As the asker, you get the freedom to select what you think was a good answer.  We can thumbs down (not remove) an answer we think is too extreme.  This is conflict riddled, but some of the best the world has to offer up for freedom of speech.
532120
Josh, I can understand your reaction and plea. It's sort of like having a bunch of mosquitos buggin' you and you can't get away from them, and you don't have any "RAID". Religious arguments are useless. Many Christians are trying to do God's work for him, rather than just focusing on their own walk with God, and letting God do his own work. They get pushy in their zeal to get everybody "saved". Some of them mean well, but some are really not mentally or spiritually well, and they'll give RELIGIOUS answers to everthing, including NON RELIGIOUS questions. I know that you can delete your own answer to a question, but sometimes I think it would be a good idea if people asking a question could delete answers that offended them. That way the pushy ones (and other people who give offensive answers)would get their answers deleted quite often, and they would soon learn that what they were doing wasn't appreciated and wasn't doing any good. And it would filter the answers for other readers who want to read relevant answers and cast a vote etc. You might want to suggest that to Yahoo. By the way, I am a Christian too.
871599
Please stop filling the politics section with worthless posts, all they do is take up space and waste our time
847628
Sure does, your opinion is being heard.  Why else would people's questions and answers keep getting deleted? This section of y/a is becoming a mini civil rights movement. People post, others delete them because they don't like the question or answer because it doesn't agree with their thinking. It's freedom of speech trying to be strangled by a small slice of small minded people. It appears bigotry is alive and well in this section. Does deleting people's remarks really matter? Other than losing points, it won't stop me from responding to outrageous questions filled with either lies, half-truths, or completely inaccurate statements.
986529
Oh yes, most definitely.  I believe they use these forums to preach their propaganda.  Because lets face it, no one really knows who or where we are.   We just work on faith that others here are honest.  But if you notice how questions here are formulated and repetitively asked, I have no doubt this is used as a sounding board.
1000364
same goes for people who ask questions? do they realize they corner answerers to answer a rhetorical question shamefully, or do they actually want an opinion.
934099
Heh.\n\nWhatever answers you receive, they're not going to change your opinion, are they? Surely you can find a more appropriate venue for your proselytizing.
129543
I think censorious people are pretty self-righteous, and probably believe that they are taking offensive books off the shelves for the good of the public.  Makes them feel they are justified, and they get still more self-righteous.  It's a delusion, but not one we can help them with.  We need to fight on the basis of free speech, not on a self-righteous attempt to "cure" self-righteousness!
321388
I think there are people who do, people get into religious debates & stuff. Some people do geuinely want to know the answers to sensible questions & it's a really useful site i think.
754104
That's an excellent question. I won't be a hypocrite about it, though. I've been guilty of it myself from time to time, but there are some repeat offenders here. It seems that the Politics and the Religion & Spirituality sections draw more of this sort of behavior than any of the others. I guess it's because they are both such personal topics and it's easy to hit a nerve when you discuss them.
699064
okay...i got bored after only looking at three of your questions and finding "Peter T" only once.  \n\ntherefore, i choose to disagree with your question and regard it as hateful and biased.