Timeline for I have problems with most Harry Potter questions: what's the point?
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| Aug 18, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | smci |
@DVK: Googling keywords site:answers.yahoo.com gives much better, more complete and more discriminating results than Yahoo's own index. It's a very sorry day for Yahoo that they can't index their own content properly.
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| Aug 17, 2014 at 19:06 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @smci - Oh, I always use Google. I never actually tried to use Y!A as a resourse in and out of itself, just one of the links from a Google search. Even so, the results sucked. | |
| Aug 16, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | smci | @izkata , DVK: Google is actually an infinitely better search engine for indexing into Yahoo Answers than Y!A's own search feature. Google will filter out bas or junk answers; and also sort by incoming external links. Another sad but true milestone for Y!A. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Izkata - of my last 10 searches that included Y!A hits, only 1 yielded aything remotely useful :) That included some HP searches as well. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | Izkata | @DVK I've found Yahoo Answers to be oddly helpful over the past few years, especially when I get there by way of a Google search. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 6:32 | comment | added | Valorum | @what - I would consider it polite to post to say "no, this isn't it" or "sorry, this is too recent". | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 6:31 | comment | added | user30564 | And about the "discussion topics": for me those were not discussion topics but had a clear definite answer (and I've found it elsewhere). Just because you don't know the answer or feel like discussing my questions, does not make them discussion topics. Sometimes leaving a question open for a few days would show their potential for good answers. But posting on SE is like filing a request in some bureocracy: the hadful of minions you are allowed to talk to interpret some vague rules accoding to their personal taste and emotions, terrorizing the population with meanness disguised as righteousness | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 6:25 | comment | added | user30564 | @Richard "you've not even bothered to respond to the story-identification question" Are we living on the same planet?!? I replied to comments to that question with two comments of my own! What did I not reply to? I don't feel like downvoting the answer that disregards part of my question (recent!!! publication, Dick is not recent), and answers such as "thanks" (and supposedly "no, thanks") are discouraged on this site. So what else should I have written there? The question contains everything that I have, I'm not so stupid as to leave out information, as some comments imply, so I ignore them | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | Valorum | @what - Well, you've only asked 4 questions. Two were attempts to create a discussion topic, one was too open-ended and you've not even bothered to respond to the story-identification question you posted. Hardly and illustrious record thus far; scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65216/… | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 18:54 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @what - if you oppose the rules, you can convince the site community to change them, or abide by them, or quite and ask your questions at a better site with no rules *cough* Yahoo Answers *cough* | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 8:19 | comment | added | user30564 | So many of my questions have been closed as off-topic, that I now get a warning whenever I want to ask a new question. I fundamentally oppose the rules of this site, because they impose rules that make sense on a technical solution site such as StackOverflow, where they originated, but are random and counterproductive on sites for topics where questions are generally not of the "how can I get this running"-kind. | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | Avner Shahar-Kashtan | I have a problem with this approach, because it basically says that everything's in good fun and nobody should have a cow. While not having a cow is a good thing, this answer can be given to any number of things we, as a community, decided we don't want to see here. It can be said about questions like "Why does The Phantom Menace suck so much", or "Where can I buy DVDs", or "Give me a list of all time-travelling robots" - all questions that don't add much value to the site and have been deemed off topic. Is anything off-topic? | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 11:16 | history | answered | user30564 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |