If you used Yahoo Answers! in the past and it came back, would you use it again?

I liked Yahoo Answers!, but things were a bit off for me. So if you asked a simple 1 or 2 sentence question, you'd typically get at most 3 responses. If your question was 3 paragraphs because of how it had to be explained, you'd get no responses.

I like using SW because I can ask a question and typically get an answer, but I also like it because of the open format it has, with being able to communicate with other members. YA! was heavily against replies, and only wanted to be a question and answer website.

If YA! came back in the format it was in, would you continue using it or would you use SW or other sites?

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

I wouldn't use it but for years I was a pretty high level answerer. I liked the points system where we got voted for best answers and how there were levels.
The categories were very effective. I used to ask alot of math questions at one point and I got alot of help.

The last 4 or 5 years I wasn't on it because I didn't need to use and also it became filled with spam, racisim, dirty talk. It wasn't even serving its purpose anymore. Hardly anyone seriously answered any questions.

twiigss · M

@REMsleep I would still get serious answers, but it came down to, how long the question was. My problem is that I would have to explain the setup of what was going on, before I could explain the actual problem. And sometimes, my question would end up being 3 or 4 paragraphs long, and I wouldn't even get an answer.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@twiigss Yes, the quality of people answering the questions went way down. 50% of questions were troll posts
People didn't want to read anymore.

twiigss · M

@REMsleep Yep. So every now and then I'd see stuff on posts TLDR. So at the start of my posts I would write, TLDR? Too bad.

My whole thing was, if you can't be bothered to read a post just a few paragraphs long, like come on, it can't be that hard. Now I have seen some posts here where its like you have to scroll down for a good 10 seconds just to see all the words, a lot of those kinds of posts is just nonsense, so I won't read those. And they don't have punctuation. It's just a string of words talking about nothing.

But I think a lot of the decent people left the site after some time. I distinctly remember a profile by the name of Bob who was a top answerer for the Computers category, but think he only ever answered one of my questions. Abrexo (I don't remember the name exactly) was also on there who I think answered a couple of my questions, and then they just stopped using the site I'm guessing.