Hey, wait a minute here! :-) There's a big difference between serious contributors and stupid people or vandals. Serious answerers do read the questions thoroughly and try and answer them the best they can, which is clearly and to the point more often than not.
Not everyone does - only those interested in the subject matter will bother to read them.
Yes. I answer many, and I answer them professionally. I check every one. I'm sure others do as well.
People who want to help other people know stuff.
people ask lame questions because their bored and have nothing to do. so they think of lame questions to bother people. i know because my class acts like that. also because people run out of questions to ask so they sometimes ask not so smart questions
Of course we do ! You have to understand, however, that it might take some time for a suitably knowledgeable person to answer your specific question !
Many people read these questions and answers. The people have spoken.
Some questions make no sense and are unanswerable. Also, there are a lot of duplicate questions where people don't read and think, and just hit "ask the question" when there is already the same question just in different words -- most people don't bother to go through and answer all the variations, but only answer the main question.
You ask questions or read about a subject to learn
WikiAnswers is a Q&A website. This means that people ask questions, then anyone can read the question and answer it. You probably asked this question as a joke, however the site is designed to show people different questions they can read and learn things about, and to give them a chance to answer the questions they read. I don't know nobody has answered one of my questions.
Because its a good thing to help others
cause
Some people just don't' bother to delete friends, I wouldn't read to much in to it.