They don't. But the questions seem to be a beacon for people that want to post bad comments, insults and other items that violate the Terms of Use of the web site. As an example the first answer to this question was nonsense. And it was posted by the person that asked the question. Which indicates that they were not serious about the question in the first place and simply wanted to abuse the site.
In order to prevent the abuse, some of the answers are protected by Supervisors. They are usually opened up after a few days, but further abuse will result in them being locked down again.
A close ended question is one that can be answered with yes, no , or another single word.
You can close the box of the question you just answered and it will be back at the previous list of questions.
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Currently, WikiAnswers is nowhere near shutting down or closing. WikiAnswers is extremely popular, and as long as its popularity stays as it is, WikiAnswers will never shut or close down.
Your question regarding ammonia has been referred to our duty Chemist.
an open-ended question.
No, WikiAnswers doesn't know everything. We are pretty close though.
In most of the cases YES. The community has many people who post legitimate answers and we have a bunch of supervisors who ensure that nonsense & junk answers are removed and the answers remain as close to the question as possible. Remember: Wikianswers does not guarantee the correctness or accuracy of the answers. The website works in a best effort manner where the best possible effort is put to give you the right answer but the correctness is not guaranteed.
you can't. close the browser, open it again, then edit and it will work. wikianswers is just stupid that way
A close ended question is one that can be answered with yes, no , or another single word.
this question is an American government question
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