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Jus' another day on Yahoo! Answers
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We made love on webcam... IS SHE PREGNANT NOW??/
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Yahoo! Answers is a modern-era Indian reserve of sorts for suicide hopefuls, teenagers, retards, americunts, and parents shocked to find their 4-year-old children masturbating with the dog to roam wild. Unsurprisingly, a large population of trolls has also reached Y!A. It is ranked the second biggest idiot breeding ground on the internets, only losing to AOL and MySpace, which are tied. Let's face it, Yahoo Answers is asking for it.

The usual questions on Yahoo! Answers include:

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Heroes of Yahoo! Answers

  • Yamster troll: Yahoo! Answers staff impersonator with Yahoo! hamster avatar.
  • Shiraz: user with Iranian name and a gay nigger rainbow avatar who annoys the libs.
  • ticiudorin. A Romanian. "I am from romania and I receive an web cam I don't know do put it work? What must I do with an A4TECH do see my friends."
  • Wesley!!! Guilty of the following: Feeding his dog banana's, and letting it lick peanut butter off of his face. May or may not be a troll. Possibly has an Australian accent. Beware of seminal nerve leakage.
  • Obama Bin Laden, who is one of many trolls in the politics section.
  • bengalsfan1993 - One of YA's more resilient trolls, bengalsfan1993 has asked the same question at least 500 times: Why does a barefoot girl always die in horror movies?
  • GingerNinjaCam: Newfag who launched a pointless and pitiful attack on every question from which lulz could be generated. Was promptly B& by Yahoo! Answers within 7 days.

How to Play

Yahoo Answers works on a "point" system, where the more points you accumulate the more special yahoo abilities you access. This essentially making it an MMO, where most people grind question so that they can level up. You gain points from answering questions and voting for the best answer, lose them by asking questions and deleting your own answer. There are four main professions that a Yahoo! Answers player can choose from.

  • Grinder - people who only answer questions to use up their daily limit, so that they can level-up the fastest. Typically, this means answering questions with inane comments such as "maybe" or "I don't know". These posts make up the majority of most answer threads.
  • Spammer - someone who copy-pastes gigantic 20-paragraph identical responses on all questions of a similar topic, usually relating to how great Mormonism/Christianity/Atheism/Scientology/Eugorinalism is, without any real relevance to the question. Almost universally ignored.
  • Troll - Here either to tell you how stupid you are when you ask a question, or to ask a stupid question in order to waste your time and piss you off. The only real use of answers, other than to produce tons of links to your website.
  • Woman - These type of people ask idiotic questions, and most of them are not aware of a website called google and rather have questions answered by 12 year old's.(or grinders) Except that there are no girls on the internet.

Other strategies:

  • Gamer/exploiter - Unlike the "grinder", the exploiter differentiates between effectiveness and efficiency. Someone who archives answers to the most frequently asked questions (mFAQ) in a note-taking computer program in order to cut and paste the answers as soon as they appear on a category feed. The gamer/exploiter type tries to optimize the best-answer quotient. He's efficient in the Yahoo! Answers imaginary world, but a complete and total idiot when it comes to efficiency in IRL situations, since he wastes so much time on Yahoo! Answers doing repetitive work for the "Web 2.0" plantation, with no compensation whatsoever.
  • Yahoo! Answers Team sycophant - This is someone who is brain-washed by "Web 2.0" utopianism, praises the Yahoo! Answers Team, the Yahoo! Answers service, or the "Web 2.0" mentality in general, uses Yahoo! Answers and "Web 2.0" vocabulary according to protocol, and thinks that the Internet runs on software, not hardware or money. A typical comment by such a user is he's addicted to Yahoo! Answers, that Yahoo! Answers is the best thing since sliced bread, yada, yada… As the good sycophant he is, he reports all lulzy posts as inappropriate. He's "politically correct" (does not tolerate anti-Jewish, racially aware or nationalistic comments) and antilulzy. Like the gamer/exploiter, a complete and utter moron who likes to be exploited by the owners of the "Web 2.0" plantation.

In summary, Yahoo! Answers is exactly like 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - everything's made up and the points don't matter.

Answers categories ripe for trolling

How to troll specific categories

Category Demographic Weaknesses How to proceed
Computers & Internet > Internet > Wikipedia Wikipedia fans Wikipedia cultism Anything slightly critical of the Wikimedia Foundation or Bomis gets on their nerves.
Food & Drink > Vegetarian & Vegan "New Age" idiots ignorance of biology and metabolism Attack their biology-illiteracy and New-Agism.
Health > Mental Health psychiatristicists, psychologisticists, suicidal people, biology-illiterates psychiatry's epistemological foundations (immaterialism, mentalism, society-nature dualism, mind-body dualism, "nature"-"nurture" dualism, psychism), physical weaknesses (suicidal tendencies, dependency on antidepressants, neuroleptics, self-"diagnosis") You troll it by insinuating that psychiatry's foundations are wrong. If someone "asks" that he's about to commit suicide, kindly tell him to just do so, for the lulz.
Politics & Government > Politics Fringe of the left and right extremists on both sides. Talk about non-U.S. politics. Point out the success of the glorious Soviet Union. Expose pseudoconservatism. Attack Western religion (Christianity + Judaism), "egalitarianism", "democracy", abortionism and "sex ed" advocates. Mock new world order prophesies. Say that Jews did 9/11.
Social Science > Gender & Women's Studies fans of the social sciences, tea-party "ladies" resentment againts ex-boyfriends, childlessness make fun of Alanis Morriestte Just approach it with the thing that annoys social-scienticists the most: the natural sciences. Tell the fucking feminists how resentful they are and what a bunch of losers they are.
Social Science > Psychology immaterialists, psychologisticists, attention seekers, dream "interpreters" aversion against sociobiology, behavioral biology, biology in general, and the natural sciences (materialism), ignorance of how sleep works The solution is to troll the fuck out of them by saying things that are even slightly materialistic, even slightly natural-scientistic, even slightly biologistic, which is just enough to get on social-science fans' nerves.
Society & Culture > Cultures & Groups > Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered homos, feminists, leftists Just say anything slightly critical of feminism, the social sciences, leftist political tendencies in general, and you win. Another way is to just reply: "Fag."
Society & Culture > Religion & Spirituality Just start making fun of atheists. Take on the pissed off wiccan goth kids.
Society & Culture > Cultures & Groups > General Cultures and Groups anti racist, niggers, and white nationalists political correctness to the extreme The key is to make any type of racists and start posting. Anything from good ol nigger haters to nigger lovers will bring the lulz.
Politics & Government > Elections Democrats and Republicans Just pick either side of the political aisle and then smear the other side for laughs and get massive ammounts of thumbs up. Pick a side and stick with it

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