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My main experience with Yahoo! Answers is that it's more of a trolling platform than anything else. The questions are trolls, and the answers are trolls. Never
by amyjess 6y ago
My main experience with Yahoo! Answers is that it's more of a trolling platform than anything else. The questions are trolls, and the answers are trolls.
Nevertheless, I'm going to miss it. The trolling was fun to read, at least.
- judge2020 6y agohttps://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoThank you! This was hilarious! Do you have any recommendations on how to find more content in this genre (dysfunctional humor / best of dumbest internet content)? It's hard to come up with search terms that would lead me to find this kind of video.
- andybak 6y agoThere's several hundred subreddits that would do the trick.
- eppsilon 6y agoThere's a podcast called My Brother My Brother and Me where they find ridiculous Yahoo Answers questions and respond with "advice".
- dceddia 6y agoNot video, but bash.org has some great exchanges. Like the hunter2 one: http://bash.org/?244321 http://bash.org/?244321
- easton 6y agoI think it knows, I clicked random and got this one: http://bash.org/?1824 http://bash.org/?1824
- matsemann 6y agoKenM, perhaps? https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/ And then people also post stuff in the same vein: https://www.reddit.com/r/NotKenM/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NotKenM/
- sjcsjc 6y agohttps://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100930083901AABMNzO https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201009300839... Best question I'm aware of on Yahoo Answers. And the infinite loop response is the best answer.
- IncRnd 6y agoThat is worrisome. If I get my wife's baby's baby pregnant (please read the linked post before commenting!), in the case that the little one needs a C-section, will that harm her mother, grandma, or my wife?
- CynicusRex 6y agoHaha, the first comment I thought of was “But how will I find out if I'm pregante?”
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoDid this come before or after the “how babby formed” meme? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed
- userbinator 6y agoI knew what that would be before I clicked on it. YA has little value in providing actual answers, but it's a great source of entertainment and possibly even illumination into how a certain subset of the population think.
- kmeisthax 6y agoExcept in Japan where it's basically Stack Overflow for some reason
- beardedscotsman 6y agoYahoo Japan was a JV between Yahoo and SoftBank. It’s pretty much a huge if not the biggest platform in Japan because of this. Yahoo Japan is not the same as yahoo globally.
- qalmakka 6y agoJapan it's basically it's own little world. Their local version of Yahoo is not only still very popular, but it looks like it's stuck in the early '00s for some inexplicable reason.
- ladberg 6y agoI think most Japanese websites look like that for some reason.
- Hamuko 6y agoThey're pretty decent now (apart from legacy) but it feels like 2004 lasted until about 2013 when it came to Japanese websites.
- Nadya 6y agoBecause most people accessed the internet on their clamshell phones and not through a PC/laptop. So most websites were designed to be mostly text and easily browsed from clamshell-phone internet browsers. Now that smartphones have become ubiquitous more sites are finally being designed to look nice on smartphones - sometimes still at the consequence of desktop use. It took a few years after the iPhone release (aka: for it to get widespread market adoption) for JP websites to start "catching up" with Western web design. There are some other reasons too - but I'd wager the above is the #1 reason and others are more of an "in addition to that" type thing. More info: https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/ https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...
- ehsankia 6y agoIs that the experience of someone who actively used it for a period of time or of someone who just heard of it offhandedly. The latter would clearly only hear of the memes and trolling, since those bubble out much more than helpful answers.
- mkr-hn 6y agoMy Brother, My Brother and Me shared all the best with a regular roster of volunteer Yahoo miners credited for the questions.