Sturgeon's Law; 90% of everything is terrible.
Anyone can answer here, so that 90% is unmodified.
Because people were bored one day and decided 'Hey, let's put up a website for answering questions!' This site is amazing. Because people were bored one day and decided 'Hey, let's put up a website for answering questions!' This site is amazing.
Wikianswers is a website where anyone can answer questions posted.
It depends on what you mean by pay. Contributors are not paid in cash for answering questions. That said, just answering questions is sort of a payment in itself. It can be satisfying to know you've helped other people, and it is satisfying to get to use your knowledge and share it.
Yes. People just like you and me are answering these questions.
The people that own Wikipedia think smart adults will answers these questions. But they don't. For example! I am a tween and just answered a TON of questions!
There are many types of people who are answering health related questions.
Because the purpose of the website is to create a common place for people who have questions and people who have knowledge to interact with one another, by asking and answering questions. If unwanted/unnecessary questions are allowed, the main purpose of the website would be defeated. Hence, they are not allowed
yes
No, we do not block people from the website if all they are doing is messaging, however these messages must be clean and the messages may not be asking and answering questions. We do encourage that all of our users get involved with asking and answering questions as that is what this site is for!
Absolutely (you just have) ! The whole point of this site is that people ask questions they need answering - and the rest of the on-line community provide answers.
Kind of, honestly YES. I have seen immature people answering questions and such, so just watch out.
People from all over the world answer these questions. Every person has different levels of education and some people use English as a second language.