Which Quora Users use Yahoo! answers?
I do! I have answered questions on Yahoo! Answers since 2007. I am not a frequent user, i.e. I have almost made it to Level 3. I am Javelina on Yahoo! Answers. I like the user interface, and I like Yahoo! Avatars, which are visible on Yahoo! Answers. Moderation is responsive.
There is a surprising amount of accumulated information on Yahoo! Answers. I do worry about its longevity. This is why I believe that Yahoo! Answers, silly as some content may be, is an important repository of (online) knowledge.
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| Me with a sweet piggy friend with help from Yahoo! Avatars |
Much of our web of knowledge has grown around Wikipedia. It is primarily due to the fact that Wikipedia is free to access, I suspect. That sounds harsh, but it isn't intended to be. This is my reasoning: It is well and good to cite Royal Society proceedings, or journal articles published by Elsevier or the ACM, but it really isn't of much help to people who cannot access them without an Athens or Shibboleth (academic or other institutional) login access.
