perhaps free time.
Just ordinary people like you and me.
Very good question. A lot of it is that humans are selfish. Not all humans, but most. Also, a lot of people don't have the time to answer other people's questions.
The questions change all the time. Watch the current program to find out the competition question and details.
They don't, and they won't. People will always have questions about all sorts of things, so they will always try to find answers to their questions. And Answers.com is a great place to find those answers, because we have thousands of people who are constantly monitoring the site, posting the answers people want.
Plain, short, and simple: we are all addicted.
so people could find the answer to their questions and look like idiots when the find that they knew the answer all along
Probably not. If most people spent there time looking on all of the forums, we would probably have so much more unanswered questions.
This is unanswerable because people add and answer questions all the time, so the number is always changing.
because unlike you obviously some people have questions but dont know where to find the answers quit taking up serious peoples valuable time
No we are not bots, we are all people dedicating time to help out others.
These questions are being answered by normal people like you or me. Create an acount on the homepage by the box that is on the left. Than you can answer other people's questions. That's what makes this site fun for all of us that answer.:)
We folks here at WikiAnswers answer questions all the time. The problem with you not getting an answer when you want it is this...there are about 300,000 people from all over the world answering and asking questions. There are about 250 supervisors who are volunteers. That means that we try to find the nasty people who clutter up our pages with vandalism, recategorize questions (like this one) to where it can be answered by the people who know the subject, and maybe(just maybe) get in an answer or two ourselves. We are real live people who take an interest in the questions we answer. We care about all the answers that are posted. We are not a search engine like Google so we actually do research to find the answer you need. I have been on the site today for about four hours. In that time, I have relocated about 400 questions to their proper homes, and answered three. Are you getting the picture? We do not answer questions that appeal to purient interests. No porn, no racism, no illegal activity such as murder, rape, or sodomy. Other than that, the site is open to any and all questions. If you do not get an answer immediately, be patient. Sooner or later someone will answer the question with an intelligent answer.