Tell me why Fluther is just way more awesome than Yahoo Questions?

Do you really have to ask? Yahoo is like a bunch of unsupervised, immature teenagers running amok asking and answering with any random, idiotic thought that pops into their heads.

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… and calls everyone a bastard.

That’s the yahoo answers way is it not?

Moderation. Said it before, I’ll probably say it again, but if I had to pick one thing that’d be it.

As a former beta original Yahoo!Answers user, I can answer that question with an insiders perspective. There is little to no moderation on that site, apart from an automated system that does not discriminate between good and bad answers, but summarily deletes them all, but only if they are reported. The system often deletes both the reported answer, and the reporter who reports the answer.

The few hundred people or so who first joined Y!A begged the originators to allow user moderators, like we have on Fluther, but we were ignored. Yahoo is only interested in promoting the site as a multiuser site for advertising purposes, any click is a good click according to their bottom line.

Four words: How is babby formed?

Great members, moderation and fairly strict guidelines.

They don’t have @augustlan . Thought we needed some shameless sucking up. ;-)

@JilltheTooth Your check is in the mail. :p

Ugghhh! I went there to bring back examples of awful questions and the place made me shudder, I don’t like the look and feel. I don’t like the advertisements. I don’t like the questions. I don’t like that lack of standards and moderation.

Best analogy I can think of: I used to bartend at a fairly upscale place, there was a fairly genteel feel to it even when it was a Friday night with a full moon. One afternoon I had to stop at a biker bar on the way to work to make a call (Yeah, I’m so old that there were no cell phones, then) and the noise, stench, and general lack of clean to the place gave me the serious willies. Similar experience going to Yahoo Answers after being here for a while…

MODERATION!

Fluther upholds its standards. Nuff said.

@Jellie they need to do way instain mother who kill their babby because these babby cannot frith back

it was on the news this mroing

The mods. Absolutely, the mods.

I guess I have to agree: moderation. And add: moderation in moderation. Boy, I wish I could say that in Latin. The best I can do is: ne quid nimis.

@CWOTUS modica temperate

A sense of community.

Although I didn’t like the moderation when I first joined, I appreciate it now. It keeps the psychotic rants and sheer stupidity to a minimum.

I also like the “family” feeling to this place. I’ve met some great people here, and some days it truly does feel like a flutherdysfunctional family, especially when a jelly needs serious help with a crisis.

I also like being whipped by the sexy CM when I’ve misbehaved.

The nekked pancake parties.

Yawho?

We can, without breaking a sweat, give you fifteen interesting synonyms for awesome.

And that’s ^ ^ ^ just Milo. Imagine what @gailcalled could do!

@JilltheTooth: Milo is in disgrace today, having left many small scratches on my car’s exterior. As we speak, he is outside waxing and simonizing the damaged areas.

@gailcalled I’m sorry gail, but I will say the word awesome til the day I die. I grew up in the late 70’s/early 80’s in Southern California – the term might as well be in my blood.

@FutureMemory: Just make sure to use some of the other words you know and love. Awesome in and of itself is fine; it’s the repetition that is numbing. See original question from the OP. (And s/he repeated “way more awesome,” which is similar to “kind of rather unique.”)

Better Mardi Gras parade.

@gail

I’ve never heard of a cat using a car for a scratching post :) I imagine it can’t be all that satisfying since they usually prefer something they can really dig into. Metal just isn’t all that yielding.

But then, Milo is definitely an iconoclast. A true individual following his bliss (however strange and inconveniencing to you.)

Well, we have emphasis here on discussion, so that’s already a plus for me. YA is a site for getting information only, if I’m not mistaken. Nothing wrong with that, other than that particular site is a cesspool of retardation. No moderation, trolls galore.
So we win here for being fucking civilized! XD

I’ve seen good Q&A sites though, that are good for what they are. In that case, as I say, for me it’s all about preference.

In Fluther you can continue making comments on a thread to someone… in Yahoo you get in trouble if you speak directly to someone in public.

@Buttonstc: MIlo doesn’t use the car as a scratching post; he likes to sit on the roof and sun. Then, he has to extend his claws in order to gain some traction for the descent. The thickness of the paint acts as a braking mechanism.

I would say it’s a combination of the things mentioned above; fair moderation, good people, a sense of community and interesting questions and answers.

Above all, like any community or business, or business community, we have Lisa – our very own @augustlan – who keeps it all together – pretty much single-handedly.

Does Yahoo or any other QA site have her? I don’t think so.

@gail

Oh that is too funny; however, just like a cat.

I guess the only thing for it is to try to find something to put on the car roof which would make it uncomfortable for His Royal Highness. If I think of anything, I’ll let you know.

There’s another reason why Fluther is better than Yahoo Answers; cuz it ain’t Yahoo Answers lol.

@Symbeline There’s a surprising amount of wisdom in that very simple statement :)

@zensky Thanks, sweetie, but I have an awful lot of help. Couldn’t run this place without the awesome mod team and community!