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