Why PF is the best place to ask questions

[Femme_physics]

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5783/3stoogesd.jpg

 

[flyingpig]

I choose the first one as best answer if I were you. He has Einstein as his avatar therefore everything he says must be true.

 

[lisab]

Those kind of sites will make you lose faith in humanity.

 

[Evo]

Yahoo answers is the biggest waste of space on the internet. Almost all answers are wrong, and yet they are voted best answer. What's the point of the best wrong answer?

 

[micromass]

Yahoo answers is the biggest waste of space on the internet

Now, now, Yahoo answers has some use. Whenever I feel bad and dumb, then I just surf to yahoo answers and read what they write there. I immediately feel a lot smarter.
And whenever I feel smart and intelligent, I surf to PF, I immediately feel a lot dumber...

 

[Astronuc]

What's the point of the best wrong answer?

 

[ZapperZ]

Yahoo answers is the biggest waste of space on the internet. Almost all answers are wrong, and yet they are voted best answer. What's the point of the best wrong answer?

That's just one clear example of what happens when there's no quality control.

Yet, we have people whining about our policy on trying to get very high signal-to-noise ratio.

Zz.

 

[Borek]

I don't see how this picture proves PF is the best place to ask questions. If anything, it proves why Yahoo is not a good place for getting answers

 

[rootX]

I don't see how this picture proves PF is the best place to ask questions. If anything, it proves why Yahoo is not a good place for getting answers

Going one step further, it doesn't prove Yahoo is not a good place for getting answers either

To be fair, I would like to know the quality distribution of yahoo question/answers (they handle massive amount of questions each day). Likely, there are many good helpers on yahoo too.

 

[Evo]

Going one step further, it doesn't prove Yahoo is not a good place for getting answers either

To be fair, I would like to know the quality distribution of yahoo question/answers (they handle massive amount of questions each day). Likely, there are many good helpers on yahoo too.

Yes, and I've seen a correct answer and a wrong answer, and they select the wrong answer as the best answer!

 

[rootX]

Yes, and I've seen a correct answer and a wrong answer, and they select the wrong answer as the best answer!

That's bit of generalization.

Nonetheless, if that's true the likelihood of top contributors being crackpots/idiots should be very high. They have these top contributors ("Top Answerers in Science & Mathematics"):
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=AgO4uDGaer9djyVINmJE_TvW5nNG;_ylv=3?sid=396545122
Maybe sometime when I am free I will see how good are those top contributors.


Interesting sidenote:
US rankings:
http://answers.yahoo.com/rank_total;_ylt=An4K2eNGp1.gafoWX_gryG_EDH1G;_ylv=3
Global rankings:
http://answers.yahoo.com/rank_total;_ylt=Al5k4hYPn14sR08_743nGB8.zKIX;_ylv=3?f=a
From this it seems like health, relationships, and higher education are hot discussion topics on that site.

 

[micromass]

Before I discovered PF, I was quite active on the mathematics forums of yahoo. I stopped with yahoo because the user never put in an effort and expected us to do all the work. I don't like that attitude at all, that's why PF is in many ways superior to yahoo answers...

Also, there aren't many challenging math questions on yahoo answers.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

AC is the opposite direction of DC.

Well, he's right half of the time.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Air conditioner current is no different than other currents.

My contribution in the spirit of yahoo.

 

[flyingpig]

Yahoo is quick though, there are some quality answers there.

 

[Pengwuino]

That's bit of generalization.

Nonetheless, if that's true the likelihood of top contributors being crackpots/idiots should be very high. They have these top contributors ("Top Answerers in Science & Mathematics"):
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=AgO4uDGaer9djyVINmJE_TvW5nNG;_ylv=3?sid=396545122
Maybe sometime when I am free I will see how good are those top contributors.

I've seen some of the peopel with a lot of "best answers". Bunch of idiots.

Air conditioner current is no different than other currents.

On another note, everyone look at this.

 

[lisab]

Yahoo is quick though, there are some quality answers there.

Sounds like it's the fast food of answers.

 

[IanT]

And reading Yahoo will cause you to lose IQ points. This is the perfect analogy.

 

[Newai]

the TOP TEN Importantly useful things I did learned from Yahoo! Answers. Are.

1. You can get pregnant from oral sex.
2. You can keep from getting pregnant as long as the.
3. How to master your potential sixth sense power.
4. How to shrink your butt pick.
5. Suicidal. Are you?
6. You can see cloned dinosaurs at the zoo.
7. How a single straight male can become a single father.
8. If I was born a crack baby.
9. The difrent bitween nuclear fition & fuetion.
10. If he likes you or your bum.


-yes, these are real.

 

[fluidistic]

Have a roflolmao.


Edit: At this point you don't know whether they are joking or not.

 

[Newai]

Have a roflolmao.Edit: At this point you don't know whether they are joking or not.

That's right. In case of invasion, proceed directly to Walmart.

 

[dlgoff]

the TOP TEN Importantly useful things I did learned from Yahoo! Answers. Are.

1. You can get pregnant from oral sex.
2. You can keep from getting pregnant as long as the.
3. How to master your potential sixth sense power.
4. How to shrink your butt pick.
5. Suicidal. Are you?
6. You can see cloned dinosaurs at the zoo.
7. How a single straight male can become a single father.
8. If I was born a crack baby.
9. The difrent bitween nuclear fition & fuetion.
10. If he likes you or your bum.


-yes, these are real.

Stop it. You're killing me. I just spit on my keyboard too.

 

[Newai]

Stop it. You're killing me. I just spit on my keyboard too.

Quick! Get to Yahoo! Answers and ask them if you will catch. Something. Like and illness?

 

[fluidistic]

That's right. In case of invasion, proceed directly to Walmart.

The point was that Russia was in conflict with the country named Georgia while some people in the Georgia state of the USA thought Russia invaded their state because they've "herd" that in the news.

 

[jobyts]

I think Sarah Palin is not that stupid.

 

[Newai]

The point was that Russia was in conflict with the country named Georgia while some people in the Georgia state of the USA thought Russia invaded their state because they've "herd" that in the news.

I got that. You did read the first question of the first image, right?

 

[fluidistic]

I got that. You did read the first question of the first image, right?

Yeah I've read all questions of all images. Ok you got it, I wasn't sure but now I am :)
I can imagine that guy driving to Walmart fearing an imminent attack on his car and buying tons of food to stock them in case of intense war XD

 

[Newai]

Yeah I've read all questions of all images. Ok you got it, I wasn't sure but now I am :)
I can imagine that guy driving to Walmart fearing an imminent attack on his car and buying tons of food to stock them in case of intense war XD

Probably would have fourteen cases of some no-brand diet soda in his apocalypse shelter.

 

[XxsithlordxX]

This site is more concentrated on those types of questions. It just increases your odds of getting a right answer.

 

[Evo]

This site is more concentrated on those types of questions. It just increases your odds of getting a right answer.

We don't allow nonsense here. The forum is heavily moderated by staff and knowledgeable members, that's the difference.

 

[MartinJH]

I've seen some of the peopel with a lot of "best answers". Bunch of idiots.






On another note, everyone look at this.

I was unsure at the time :/.