Answers are provided by the general public, just like the questions. There is not a staff sitting around waiting for someone to ask a question so they can answer it. With tens of thousands of people visiting the site everyday, it shouldn't take too long to get an answer. Not everyone with an answer you want will be here on the site.
If you don't already know the answer to a "simple" question, chances are there won't be anyone else who can answer it quickly either.
- there may be no answer to your question
- no one was online to answer it at that time
- the question was not clear
- the question was too difficult
Because not everything revolves around you. Some people have lives. Because there are over 1,000,000 questions unanswered and there are only 2,000,000 users although you might think that with that many users you would think that the questions would be answered right away.
You have to understand that this is a wiki site, and we get answers directly from the public. So it may take a while before someone with the necessary expertise will both visit the site and see the question. If it is a very common question, you can get the results instantly. For more obscure or philosophical questions, it may take a long time.
Wikianswers is not an automated service, it is Wikianswers' users that answer the questions. There's absolutely no guarantee a question will be answered fast or even at all.
It depends on the question. Some are answered almost immediately while others take a bit longer. Others are never answered because no one can answer them. There really isn't a set time guarantee that a question will be answered within so long.
I don't get on this sight to answer the questions, I get on to get my questions answered. So get these things answered!
Because this site is not dedicated solely to your questions. It may be some time before some one who knows the answer sees your question.
How Many Questions Have You Answered?I am answering your question, and, as of now, I have answered 2,460 questions.
If you have been waiting a long time for your answer it may be that a community member who knows the answer hasn't seen it yet, you see, all of our questions are answered by people just like you.
Some peoples questions are weird and/or embarrassing to even talk about. And sometimes your questions are so obscure that it will have to come across the right person to be answered correctly, and who knows how long that's gonna take.
WikiAnswers does not provide statistics on how many questions have been asked, but they do provide statistics on how many questions have been answered, so we will use that number.As of 3/4/12 there are 15,338,154 answers.Assuming that questions take an average of 4 questions to read:(15,338,154) * (4) = 61,352,616 seconds.Minutes: 1,022,543,000,000,000,000Hours: 17,042,000,000,000,000Days: 710,000,000,000,000
So people can have their questions answered.
that can only be answered by an exam of your computer
The goal of this website is to have a huge vast majority of questions and answers. We want a lot of our questions answered so that we can become the leading Q&A site.
The answer to your question is, yes I can.
Yes, I just answered yours. Questions are answered all the time. Except for questions that are worded so poorly that it is impossible to provide an answer.