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Phew. good to know future generations will still be able to find out how babby is made.

by moonbug 6y ago

apples_oranges 6y ago
You seem convinced that there is no good content on Yahoo Answers..
- Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
  It's like 4chan. Sometimes there's some good content, but you gotta wade through the 99% sewage to see any of it.
  - muzani 6y ago
    I think 4chan has much higher quality content on average.
    - LightG 6y ago
      And much higher extremity of content. Asking better questions is normally a "better" way to find higher quality content.
- ai_ja_nai 6y ago
  beside the historycal antropological value, and all the associated hilarity, there is very little content worth saving
- muzani 6y ago
  I used it in college before Wolfram Alpha and Stack Overflow were popular. "How is babby made" seems to be the median quality content there.
- criddell 6y ago
  I have a hard time believing that the value of the content exceeds the resource cost of archiving it.
- jfengel 6y ago
  The problem with Q&A sites of any stripe is that the "good" content gets generated early. People ask meaningful questions and get meaningful answers. But there's less of that than one might think. It rapidly reaches the state where the questions become highly specific (e.g. diagnose a medical condition, fix a bug, solve a personal problem, homework questions), repetitive, or argumentative. The Q&A format just isn't very good for long-term growth. So there probably is good content on Y!A. (I like to think I contributed some myself.) But that quickly becomes swamped under a vast morass of unanswerable questions and poor-quality answers. Nobody seems to have found a good solution to that. StackOverflow seems to be doing best, but at a cost of keeping its community small (small enough to fit in a single rack) and highly focused. Having a continuously changing technology helps -- but on a more general Q&A site that rapidly degrades into arguing about politics.
- moonbug 6y ago
  even if I hadn't been there to know for myself, Sturgeon's Law would seem to be applicable.
Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
And how to find out if u can get...𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮
- Thev00d00 5y ago
  An absolute internet classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

Phew. good to know future generations will still be able to find out how babby is made.

apples_oranges 6y ago

You seem convinced that there is no good content on Yahoo Answers..

Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
It's like 4chan. Sometimes there's some good content, but you gotta wade through the 99% sewage to see any of it.
- muzani 6y ago
  I think 4chan has much higher quality content on average.
  - LightG 6y ago
    And much higher extremity of content. Asking better questions is normally a "better" way to find higher quality content.
ai_ja_nai 6y ago
beside the historycal antropological value, and all the associated hilarity, there is very little content worth saving
muzani 6y ago
I used it in college before Wolfram Alpha and Stack Overflow were popular. "How is babby made" seems to be the median quality content there.
criddell 6y ago
I have a hard time believing that the value of the content exceeds the resource cost of archiving it.
jfengel 6y ago
The problem with Q&A sites of any stripe is that the "good" content gets generated early. People ask meaningful questions and get meaningful answers. But there's less of that than one might think. It rapidly reaches the state where the questions become highly specific (e.g. diagnose a medical condition, fix a bug, solve a personal problem, homework questions), repetitive, or argumentative. The Q&A format just isn't very good for long-term growth. So there probably is good content on Y!A. (I like to think I contributed some myself.) But that quickly becomes swamped under a vast morass of unanswerable questions and poor-quality answers. Nobody seems to have found a good solution to that. StackOverflow seems to be doing best, but at a cost of keeping its community small (small enough to fit in a single rack) and highly focused. Having a continuously changing technology helps -- but on a more general Q&A site that rapidly degrades into arguing about politics.
moonbug 6y ago
even if I hadn't been there to know for myself, Sturgeon's Law would seem to be applicable.

Sohcahtoa82 6y ago

And how to find out if u can get...𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮

Thev00d00 5y ago
An absolute internet classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg