Are Yahoo answers reliable

Answer 1

Asking and answering on Yahoo! Answers is like going out into a crowded town square and asking and answering people's questions: It is a good place to start and generally people are well-intentionned. However, you more often than not ask people who have no clue about the subject they are talking about, and more often than not, people will give you outright wrong answers. Even many of the "experts" and "Top Contributors" often consistently give outright ignorant and incorrect answers. There are also a lot of trolls on some sections. Furthermore, the Y!A community tends to be quite emotional, especially on the sections "Polls & Surveys" and "Religion & Spirituality", which are almost completely unreliable. Furthermore, there are sections like "Current Events" that are used almost entirely for people's dirty laundering, i.e racist and political circle-...you get the point.

All in all, for the most part, Yahoo! Answers is a good place to start your search, but you should not believe what you see on there, even if they are from "Top Contributors" or other experts, until you can further validate it with other reliable sources.