| Yahoo Answers; is this a good place for Aquarium or | | | | best (in part due to voting with Top Contributor |
| other information? | | | | gaining respect based on volume of answers and a |
| The answer from an aquatic information perspective | | | | high percentage based on misguided trust). Albert |
| is currently no (hopefully this will change). | | | | Einstein wouldn't stand a chance if he was to post in |
| Since they added the "Top Contributor" feature the | | | | a section about physics. |
| answers have gotten even worse as people | | | | What should Yahoo do short of the right moral thing |
| automatically vote or pick answers based on so called | | | | of shutting downs Yahoo answer for any technical |
| authority. In all modesty I have been in the hobby | | | | advice and leaving it as just a community forum? At |
| over 40 years and in a professional capacity for | | | | least Yahoo should; |
| about 28 years, yet I continue to do research and | | | | *Remove the best answer feature |
| not accept anecdotal advice (including my own) | | | | *Pay for screeners in their field of knowledge |
| without research and tests. This hobby has enough | | | | *Definitely get rid of the thumb up and down feature |
| myths that are passed around without them being | | | | (this is ridiculous) |
| compounded and accepted as fact due to Yahoo | | | | *Get rid of the top contributor feature (another poor |
| Answers. Yahoo Answers social commenting problem | | | | idea) |
| of posers acting like pros giving out poor advice is | | | | Finally this is NOT an attack on Yahoo (it is my |
| bad idea. | | | | favorite search engine and I prefer Yahoo's main |
| So far none of the hoped for improvements in | | | | service too). This is a warning to persons needing |
| Yahoo Answers have materialized, such as the Losing | | | | help with their aquarium or pond questions to look |
| the Top Contributor feature and the voting. After a | | | | elsewhere for better less anecdotal and down right |
| recent round of really bad answers getting picked | | | | wrong and dangerous answers. |