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Should Yahoo allot more points to certain questions, whose answers require more research?

Q: I find it really odd that inane questions like "So guys who's your favorite movie star? or "Who am I?" allot 10 points to the so-called "best answer" while complicated questions that necessitate thorough research equally yield just 10 points per answer.Personally, I feel that Yahoo should delete questions that have to do with personal preferences, because each person has a preference and most "best answers" are those where the person asking agrees with the one who answers. (e.g. Question: What's your favorite color? Answer: Red. Like, um, I totally agree with you, BEST ANSWER!)On Google.com, Google chooses the people by a thorough screening process, and the person actually pays for answers. In this way, there is a real incentive for both the person asking and the person answering. Yahoo's system is useful because it allows more input, but inevitably it ends up attracting garbage questions and garbage answers that are created solely to inflate point tallies.Discuss?Even if Yahoo is "entertainment", there are many very serious questions here. There is a disincentive for people to spend the time to answer those when they know they get as many points answering the easy ones.I think that there are ways Yahoo can screen questions. For example, since each question is asked in its own specific category, then it follows that different categories can obtain different weights. But to really get that system functioning well, Yahoo would have to narrow the classification scheme. I think a question on a subject like "Cancer", for example, merits a much higher point value than one on "Pop Culture", regardless of the content of the question asked.

A: You have a really good point, but I don't see any way to remedy that problem. There's no way Yahoo! can go through and "check" meticulously which questions fit the rules and which don't (and by the way, there ARE rules, so at least we're moving toward something). Even if Yahoo! DID have some sort of scanning mechanism, more likely than not it would backfire and some valid questions would be deleted occasionally - which would be a HUGE "disincentive," as you say, to put up valid questions (in the fear that they might be deleted). So... I'm not sure if I agree with you that this is such a serious problem, because Yahoo! Answers is for fun as well as for discussion of serious issues, and the point system doesn't really matter that much. Don't get me wrong; I do look upon my number of points with pride, but I also understand that people can go to my page and see my best answers and therefore will know that I answer questions thoughtfully and with research (most of the time) when I want best answers. Hope I helped to contribute!P.S. Thanks for answering MY question.