Yahoo! Answers

Each question is allowed, except for those that violate the Community Guidelines. In order to promote good answers, helpful users will occasionally awarded in Yahoo 360 blog. Although the service itself is free, the content of the answers ownership of each user. Yahoo, however, reserves the non-exclusive, royalty-free and valid worldwide right to publish the information. Chatting is explicitly forbidden by the Community Guidelines, but the Yahoo Messenger ID can be displayed on the Yahoo Answers profile page of each user.

To open an account, requires each user a Yahoo! ID, but it can also be a nickname for identification at Yahoo Answers can be used. Furthermore, a user can 360 Imge also be identified by a Yahoo avatar or a Yahoo.

Provided language versions

Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Answers is in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam available. In the United States, the site is available in both English and Spanish and in Canada in both English and French. The default language of the user is the default language to Yahoo Answers. Users in countries with multiple languages ​​can also specify that they only see the questions from their home country.

Points, levels and stars

Initially, questions are open only for four days. However, the asker to decide whether he wants to close the question after at least an hour or wants to extend the time limit up to one week. To ask a question, a Yahoo account must exist with a positive score.

The points system is weighted to animate the user to answer questions and to minimize spam issues. In addition, there are ( with points limits), which give the user more options on the page level. However, points and levels have no real value, can not be sold, and serve only to indicate the activity of a user on the page. A significant disadvantage of the points or levels is that people are encouraged to give answers, although they do not have enough knowledge in the relevant field in order to gain points. On the other hand, people can also ask questions that do not serve to broaden the knowledge.

The point system encourages them to answer as many questions as possible until the daily limit is reached. When a user of Level 3 or 4 come and have a good rate of ' best answers ' in a particular category, these get an orange sticker with the title " Top Contributor ". A user can " Top Contributor " is what is displayed on the profile page of the user depending on the habits of the user in up to three categories. If a user has, however, " Top Contributor " in a category, the plaque is displayed in all of the user questions, answers and comments, regardless of the category in which they are.

Level / points table:

Points can be earned according to the following table:

Votes and the rating of " thumbs up" or " thumbs down" are anonymous and can not be changed afterwards. Users can evaluate interesting questions with a star and the list of people who have reviewed the issue with a star is made ​​public. On the Clever profile page, users can see how many stars they got to a question. However, stars can be removed to questions also afterwards. Should a question be deleted obtained on stars are, however, still counted even in profile. Users also have an additional observation list for questions, which however is kept private