What are some signs you might be addicted to WikiAnswers?

Answer 1

You know you're a Wikiholic if...

• You have WikiAnswers set as your home page.
• You know you'd have done a better job in school, had they given out badges instead of report cards.
• When you see the color orange you do a double take... just in case.
• You wish you could block people in real life.
• Your real life friends must call you by your WikiAnswers user name to get your attention.
• You checked for misspellings and punctuation errors while reading this list.
• You've tried using your Super Powers to fight crime on the streets.
• Questions with the words "baby daddy," "pick up truck" and "baseball bat" in the same sentence no longer surprise you.
• Your friends and family try reaching you on your message board, rather than your cell phone.
• You can offer way too much insight into a 16-year-old's love life.
• You give your kids trust points for good behavior.
• You know Miley Cyrus's favorite food, Joe Jonas's email address and John McCain's net worth off the top of your head.
• You've thought about improving people's answers while having a conversation.
• Little orange men have started to dance around in your dreams.
• You have ever thought of a good question while out and wrote it on a scrap piece of paper so that you don't forget to add it to the site.
• You have ever engineered a workaround of the company or school firewall to access your Watchlist at work or school.
• You are typing answers even though you are lying down in bed sleeping and dreaming of being on WikiAnswers.
• You have ever changed the color settings on your computer so that WikiAnswers is easier on the eyes.
• You have ever logged into the site in the morning before brushing your teeth.
• Your spouse claims to be a Wikiwidow.
• You have ever tried explaining redirects to a friend who could obviously care less.
• You have an unnatural dislike for Miley Cyrus.
• You skip a family reunion to hook up with your pals here on WikiAnswers.
• You miss breakfast and lunch every single day, because you're so busy re-categorizing questions one by one by one...
• You spend $60 on WikiAnswers gear at Cafepress.com.
• You start having withdrawals from not receiving a "New message!" on WikiAnswers' email.
• You dream about the category tree and ways to improve it.
• You have created additional user names so that you can have multiple Watchlists.
• Your co workers greet you by saying "So what's new with WikiAnswers?"
• Your favorites list in your browser has more than 10 WikiAnswers-related links.
• You type every question from "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" into WikiAnswers.
• You have ever had WikiAnswers running on two computers at the same time.
• You caused the soup to burn, because you thought you might be able to sneak in one more question.
• You ask WikiAnswers, "What is a social life?" because you can't remember what it is.
• You give this out to anybody who wants to have fun.
• You feel your heart sink when you see a good answer replaced by "Haaaa Haaaa."
• Your cat lies on the keyboard when it wants to be petted.
• You use the Internet services provided by the hotel for WA when you are overseas on a holiday, early in the morning, late in the night.
• You just spent several minutes reading all of these answers because you are just so addicted to WA.
• You are scheduled for surgery and call the hospital to ask if they have Internet access in their rooms.
• You take your laptop to the family reunion, along with your green beans and casserole dish.
• You let the voice mail answer the phone when it rings.
• At 1:00 in the morning, you think: "Just one more...."
• You're freaking out about going, er, cold turkey because you're going away for Thanksgiving.
• You re categorize in your sleep while mumbling "Must... organize... questions...."
• You find yourself so hooked on editing that you rephrase your friends' questions and even re-word graffiti you find.
• Your motto is: "Cleanliness is next to WikiAnswersliness."
• You taught your bird to say "WikiAnswers" and instead of giving it a cracker, you reward it with a question.
• You wish the school/work day was shorter so you can get home to WikiAnswers.
• Your doctor says that being on WikiAnswers any longer will endanger your health.
• You find yourself sneaking to the computer at 2 AM because you just remembered that answer you had forgotten.
• When you can't go on WikiAnswers, you research questions to add to the site later.
• You skip opening presents on Christmas Day to answer questions.
• You turned from a reader to a writer.
• You check your Watchlist and message board more than your email Inbox.
• You realize you are answering questions on a Thursday night.
• You talk about WikiAnswers frequently in daily life.
• Your best friend is the Orange Man.
• Upon hearing the term "alcoholic," you catch yourself clarifying it to a complete stranger, "Oh, you mean like a Wiki-holic... only with alcohol."
• Whenever your web browser is closed, you feel a large sense of communal absence.
• You try to edit your sent items on your email account, thinking that they can be updated.
• You have a special folder for WikiAnst be addicted to WikiAnsC which contains unanswered questions and rules from WikiAnswers pages.
• The only bookmarks you have are bookmarks for WikiAnswers or related material - and they are all obsessively organized in sub folders according to task (Edit Answers, Watch Users, Organize Alternates, Extra Tools, Help Docs, Special Search Pages, etc).
• Oh, but yes, you do have bookmarks for other sites, such as for Google Docs - your complete, self made sources for WikiAnswers-related tasks, needs, reminders, and to do lists!
• When you sit down at the computer, the first thing you do is log on to WikiAnswers and check your message board and Watchlist.
• As you sit in the dark late at night reaching outward to turn off the computer, your hand begins to shake, and you scream out loud: "Just... One... More... Edit!"
• Your WikiAnswers email now has more priority than your personal email!
• You get withdrawal from moving away long enough to go to the bathroom/to stretch/to blink.
• You have the urge to repair spelling mistakes in the Community Forum or on users' message boards.
• When you sign emails to someone outside of WikiAnswers, you sometimes catch yourself signing with your username instead of your real name.
• You cringe when a simple question with "dose" instead of "does" has attracted 200 alternates with 200 different answers.
• You have played the game Poptropica even though you have no kids, just to be certain all the WikiAnswers are correct.
• You block someone for "repeated discourteous misspelling" and not using capital letters.
• You're still reading this list.
• You read all the way through this list, then discover there is an "Improve Answer" button and you get excited.
• Your best friend becomes a member just so that she might get a response when she tries to talk to you without having to listen to you mumble about other people's bad grammar.
• You sleep with your WikiAnswers blanket and your daughter names her dog Wiki.
• You give people badges if they improve what you say.
• You want people to call you by your username on WikiAnswers.
• You know what all the search engine results will be if you put in "WikiAnswer" (without the letter "s") instead of "WikiAnswers."
• You have searched "WikiAnswers" on YouTube, just to see what some of the Supervisors look like!
• You read these answers all the way through to the end.
• After reading all of these and checking 75% of them off, you are still in denial.
• Your parents have one of them bring you someplace you have been dying to go, just so they can make a phone call without you right there saying, "Come on, I NEED more trust points... IT'S LIFE OR DEATH."
• You have 4 computers all on WikiAnswers; that way, when one is loading you can still answer on 3 others.
• You find browsing the "Adds no value" catch-all painful, as you are on exactly the same wavelength as the contributor asking the question!
• You find yourself quitting school/job so you can spend more time on WikiAnswers.
• You keep a WikiAnswers page open on your Blackberry at all times.
• You find yourself sending personal letters/emails to the WikiAnswers staff.
• You get better grades in school because you study hard knowing that somebody will ask questions about it later.
• You start typing your WikiAnswers username when you log on to any site.
• You have posted an answer to this question.
• When you start to feel like you can't remember who you really are, you just log on to Wiki and read your bio.
• You find yourself turning down shopping sprees to answer questions.
• You have a little folder (or it used to be little) of all your contributions and questions you have and it is bigger than any of your school folders.
• You go on WikiAnswers at school and go inside at recess to go on WikiAnswers.
• You daydream about WikiAnswers at school.
• You close WikiAnswers when your teacher is looking and go back on it immediately.
• You use 85% of your time when you come back from school for work on WikiAnswers. The other 15% is used for eating or homework.
• When you are eating, you eat with your laptop at your side with WikiAnswers on it.
• You forget to eat, because you are too absorbed by WikiAnswers. You remember briefly, at some point, but it just makes you think of another question....
• You have a WikiAnswers T-shirt.
• Your BFF is a Wiki contributor, but you have only met them through WikiAnswers. You sleep with your laptop on and WikiAnswers on the screen.
• You took the time to read this list.
• You named your new dog after someone you met on WikiAnswers.
• You rejected a date from someone you've been crushing on for a long time, just so you can go on WikiAnswers.
• You'd start crying if someone told you that you wouldn't be able to go on WikiAnswers for a day.
• You've found the love of your life on WikiAnswers.
• You spend more time on WikiAnswers than you do sleeping.
• You are elated when, on your trip to Hawaii, you discover the word "Wiki" (English pronunciation: /wiË�kiË�/) is the Hawaiian word for "fast" since WikiAnswers must now mean FAST ANSWERS!
• You would have paid more attention in school if WikiAnswers didn't exist.
• Your bio page is a mile long and takes 10 minutes to load on your computer.
• The majority of your bookmarks are your favorite categories to explore, edit, and answer.
• You send love notes to your girl/boyfriend, who is on the WikiAnswers staff.
• You understand what all of the above statements mean.
• Your corneas start to burn because you spend so much time on WikiAnswers.
• You spend more time on WikiAnswers than with your friends.
• You ran out of food because you spent so much time on WikiAnswers that you forgot about going to the grocery store.
• WikiAnswers went from your favorite Website to your Energy Boost.
• You checked the spelling of all previous answers here, because it is now so easy.
• You forgot to do your homework, because you were on WikiAnswers.
• You feel the need to improve the answer on the "Are you addicted to WikiAnswers?" question.
• You have your homework on one page, and WikiAnswers on the other, so that when someone comes, you can switch it over to look like you are doing work.
• You now type "Answers" instead of "Answer" in your everyday work, because you are so used to typing "WikiAnswers."
• You draw your stick figures as little orange men.
• Instead of counting sheep, you count little orange men.
• You have this list memorized.
• You don't feel the need to go to Yahoo! Answers.
• You go to Yahoo! Answers, and all your reference sources are answers on WikiAnswers.
• You are organizing your friend's party, while answering those "last questions" here on WikiAnswers.
• You write down some signs of being a WikiHolic on scrap paper while you are out, so you can add them here later.
• You feel the need to be a "top contributor" in many categories. And you have fulfilled it.
• You have added "WikiAnswers" to your computer's dictionary, so that spell-check doesn't keep catching it.
• You are willing to catch hypothermia to sneak in that extra answer.
• You want to skip class to look at this site. And then tell the teacher you're doing some vitally important project work when they catch you.
• WikiAnswers has become the extent (or at least the majority) of your social life.
• You patrol the site looking for vandals as if you're a Hall Monitor patrolling schools.
• When you take a typing class for school, you already know how to type well because you've already spent so much time asking and answering on WikiAnswers.
• You wanted to get in "Just one more" before going to bed, but were so sleepy you fell asleep over your laptop before you finished the answer.
• You read all of the above signs of WikiAnswers addiction, and can relate to most of them.
• You are up all night thinking of new signs of WikiAnswers addiction to add to this list.
• You have contemplated splitting off this question's alternates into another question.
• You know most of the contributors to this answer box on a first-name basis.
• If your high-speed Internet connection or phone line is down, it's more important than anything else going on in your life, and you pace until the repairman arrives. Then you study every move he makes, in case it happens again.
• You're so used to asking questions without using first person pronouns (as WikiAnswers requires), that you now ask your spouse: "Did any phone calls come for your partner today?" instead of saying "Did I get any calls today?" And you're hoping the answer is "No," so you can get back to your WikiAnswers.
• Your parent/spouse catches you on WikiAnswers at 1 AM doing recats.
• You do your homework by the computer, but never get it done because you keep switching back to WikiAnswers.
• You lose hair - or get gray hairs - because you only spent two hours on WikiAnswers today.
• You start sobbing whenever the Internet goes down, or the power goes out.
• You have asked if there is a 12-step program for Wikiholics.
• You use an iPod touch and a sketchy Wi-Fi to log on to WikiAnswers at midnight.
• Your friends ask how many WikiAnswers you've posted so far and then laugh.
• Your family and friends start asking, "Just how much time do you spend on that site?" as though they are planning an intervention.
• Your parents say that you can go on WikiAnswers if you do all of your chores.
• You gasp in shock when an answer is all in capital letters.
• You get to the provincials in the Canwest Spelling Bee just because you remember all of the words from WikiAnswers.
• Instead of telling your kids "If you don't stop that, you will not get to watch TV tonight," you tell them "If you don't stop that, your TV privileges will be suspended tonight."
• You find that, when in company with others, you are a fountain of knowledge on all sorts of totally unrelated subjects, but you dare not tell them you got the information from your involvement with WikiAnswers.
• You have convinced yourself that dust is a protective coating for your furniture because you spend too much time on the site to clean house.
• In your sleep, you say: "Wiki, Wiki, Wiki..."
• You are used to answering awkward questions that you would be too embarrassed to answer in person.
• You just finished this list.
• You noticed that the last sign wasn't actually the end of the list.
• You've worked out how much you might have earned at your real job instead of being on WikiAnswers, but consider a few thousand dollars a small price to pay for carrying the fight against ignorance to the four corners of the world. (Thank you for the line, Peter Sellers.)
• You scratch the words "WikiAnswers - The world's leading Q&A site" on every wooden thing you see.
• You've nodded proudly at most of these symptoms.
• You sit at the computer thinking of random questions to ask to be the top contributor for the month.
• You improve this question more than once.
• You've begun correcting the spelling in your friends' emails before answering them.
• You know everything about a topic just because you read all of the answers on WikiAnswers.
• You tried to improve your favorite novel by rephrasing the questions.
• The main information source you have on your bibliography has wikianswers.com in the name.
• You put all of your badges onto your resume.
• You used to want to be a doctor/lawyer/scientist when you grew up; now you think that the coolest job ever would be working for WikiAnswers.
• Your hands seems to be in auto pilot, and go straight to WikiAnswers after switching on your computer. Then you moan because your virus checker is taking too long.
• You try to answer questions in your sleep and wake up thinking "Wait, I don't have an Internet connection in here!"
• You find yourself trying to categorize the conversations of people around you.
• You keep hitting the "Merge" button, but your car won't move forward in traffic!
• You can't understand why the boss doesn't have a "designated Wiki area" at work.
• You overhear someone's reply and try to erase their answer and substitute the correct one.
• People keep coming to your message board and leaving messages like "Are you here all the time?"
• You are lying in the emergency room in major pain and you don't know what is wrong with you, but you're trying to Wiki on your smart-phone that has an Internet connection. (I was in the ER today for 8 hours and all I could think about was WikiAnswers. Never mind asking for pain medication... just give me WikiAnswers.)
• You understand that a "cat" super is not talking about a feline superhero.
• Your husband and/or pets have to wait for their dinner or to go out to potty (pets, not husband) while you get in "just one more."
• You know that Justin Bieber fans seem to not be able to spell his name...
• You are always logged on to WikiAnswers.
• You do not look up when someone enters the room while you are on WikiAnswers.
• As you lay dying, your fingers are flying across your keyboard trying to squeeze in just a few more contributions before the end comes.
• When you log in to WikiAnswers, you say, "I'm home!"
• You believe people who hate WikiAnswers are mad and bad or sad and idiots.
• You just read this list without skipping any.
• You named your dog "Wiki" and your cat "Answers." And you nicknamed your boyfriend "Orange Man."
• Your Facebook, MySpace and YouTube profile pictures are all of Wiki badges and the Orange Man.
• You spend countless hours on the site every day.
• You are still reading this... with a huge smile on your face.
• You read this whole list and added your own, just so you can read more.
• You see yourself earning hundreds of contributions in your dreams.
• You make hundreds of contributions each day.
• You create at least 30 threads in the Community Forum each month.
• You throw a fit if you're not on WikiAnswers.
• You've emailed a supervisor to find out about the badges you can place on your profile.
• You get about 15 trust points a week, and near 45 trust points a month.
• You message anyone who makes a question of their own into the flagged questions and tell them to fix their answer.
• Questions like "What's a lip doing when it talks?" or "Can you do a back flip on a roof?" don't sound weird to you; they sound completely normal.
• You are supposed to be doing homework right now, but have taken the time to browse through this.
• On the Community Forum, it shows your username as the last post for every Forum.
• You've called in sick to work because you've needed to clean up your favorite category.
• You get very annoyed at the vandals of this site and vow to clean up as many answers as you can before you go to sleep.
• You have actually read this entire list and realize you can relate to 80% of them.
• This page is in your favorites.
• You feel like logging on to the website at least once a day.
• You feel like cleaning up the community of all the vandals and other harmful elements.
• You feel like answering questions whenever you find some free time.
• You notice WikiAnswers is the school computer's homepage.
• You just found out that you mother/father has been yelling at you for the past 3 hours telling you to do your homework.
• You have read this list from top to bottom and are not asleep.
• Your favorite thing is WikiAnswers.
• You are on WikiAnswers when you are doing online schoolwork.
• You spend every second on WikiAnswers.
• You dream about trust points accumulating.
• You mess up your perfect answer because you fell asleep.
• You are going to be the next person to add to this answer (although this answer is long enough) so you can read more.
• You notice that WikiAnswers is first on your top sites or most visited sites.
• You're late for school/work because you wanted to answer that last question...
• Your homework isn't finished because you've been on WikiAnswers 24/7.
• When you see a figurine like the Orange Guy, except yellow, you shout at the top of your lungs "Hey, that's the Orange Guy yellow! IMPOSTER!"
• You opened a page titled "What are some signs you might be addicted to WikiAnswers?" in the hope of some self-help tips.
• You have a folder in your Favorites dedicated to WikiAnswers.
• You get annoyed at any bad grammar and try to fix it, forgetting you're not on WikiAnswers.
• You are correcting spelling of this list
• You have a WikiAnswers background on your computer.
• You sleep answering questions, and wake up angry that your profile wasn't updated.
• You have every single badge that it's possible to earn.
• Text talk is one of the most evil things you can think of and must be cleaned up.
• Every time you add something to this list you spell-check the previous ones.
• "Wikiholic" is part of your computer's dictionary as well as "WikiAnswers."
• The word "answer" does not look correct unless "Wiki" is in front of it and it ends in an "s."
• When you say the word "WikiAnswers" and someone replies "What's that?" you freak out and immediately go to the closest computer and show them the site (as well as check your messages and Watchlist).
• Your boyfriend/girlfriend joined WikiAnswers just so that they could talk to you. They then ended up getting addicted and staying.
• You have more friends on WikiAnswers than you do in person.
• You look to your Mentor(s) like they are parents or other highly respectable people.
• You consider the WikiAnswers community your family more than you do your real family.
• Since you don't like to type properly or you never learned how you have developed your own way of typing so that you can "answers" more questions (the "s" is supposed to be there... the word looks better that way).
• You are highly annoyed when you see sentences like this: "I ain't looking like you want to what do I do" and find 63 grammar and spelling issues even though there are only 6 or 7.
• You edit the above symptom to tell just how many spelling or grammar issues there are.
• You've been diagnosed with "WikiAnswer-itis
• You go to WikiAnswers instead of Wikipedia.
• You've gone to the school psychologist for being on WikiAnswers. You then told him/her that there was nothing you could do since you're a Wikiholic.
• You are highly upset that this is the end of the list so you plan on adding your own Wikiholic signs.
• The teacher/Tutor of your lesson involving computers now doesn't even bother to tell you off for being on WikiAnswers despite numerous comments for several weeks.
• You use WikiAnswers as your 'escape' from the world
• You come to WikiAnswers whenever someone makes you upset.
• You have put your office task on hold so that you can finish off SPA task at WikiAnswers.
• You don't care about the world around you, just the computer screen and WA, trying to be the best editor and answerer and questioner in the world... for several years straight without showering... or moving, and drinking food and water with a straw...
• You learn another language just so you can get a Linguist Badge.
• You are on WA for six hours and tell your kids to go away because you are on WA.
• You set your alarm clock early and are on the site until 2:00am
• You go on the site during an earthquake.
• Your coffee's gone cold while you were reading this list.
• Your parents banned you from the site, yet you still manage to sneak your way on.
• You read this entire list in Spanish, then looked up what each Spanish word means on WikiAnswers.
• You say 'Give me one more minute!' when your parents ask you to sleep and a minute later, you say the same thing over and over again.
• You have more friends with usernames than you do friends with 'real' names.
• You turn your phone off so you won't be interrupted while you're on WikiAnswers.