Can anybody tell me what the yahoo points are for please?

yes would love to know that too are we going to get a bunch of flowers when we reach the MAX!!!!

the points are for you to win tickets for two to the world cup in germany who ever has the most points wins the two tickets at the end

Points and Levels To encourage participation and reward great answers, Yahoo! Answers has a system of points and levels. The number of points you get depends on the specific action you take. The points table below summarizes the point values for different actions. While you can't use points to buy or redeem anything, they do allow everyone to recognize how active and helpful you've been. (And they give you another excuse to brag to your friends.) Points Table Action Points Begin participating on Yahoo! Answers One time: 100 Ask a question -5 Choose a best answer for your question 3 No Best Answer was selected by voters on your question Points Returned: 5 Answer a question 2 Deleting an answer -2 Log in to Yahoo! Answers Once daily: 1 Vote for a best answer 1 Rate a best answer 1 Have your answer selected as the best answer 10 Receive a "thumbs-up" rating on a best answer that you wrote (up to 50 thumbs-up are counted) 1 per "thumbs-up"   Levels are another way to keep track of how active you (and others) have been. The more points you accumulate, the higher your level. Yahoo! Answers recognizes your level achievements with our special brand of thank you's! Level Yahoo! Answers Thank Yous Points 7 Be the first to find out! 25000+ 6 Be the first to find out! 10,000 - 24,999 5 Be eligible to be a Featured User on the home page masthead. 5,000 - 9,999 4 Be eligible to be a Featured User on the community manager editorial page. (coming soon) 2,500-4,999 3 A super-special Yahoo! Answers thank you. (coming soon) 1,000-2,499 2 A special Yahoo! Answers thank you. (coming soon) 250-999 1 Full access to Yahoo! Answers! 1-249 0 Limited access: you cannot ask a question but have level 1 privileges 0   And finally, as you attain higher levels, you'll also be able to contribute more to Yahoo! Answers - you can ask, answer, vote and rate more frequently. Level Questions Answers Comments Rates Votes 6, 7 * unlimited * 100 100 5 * unlimited * 100 100 4 20 80 40 80 80 3 15 60 30 60 60 2 10 40 20 40 40 1 5 20 10 20 20

get to the final points and you will be happy

it is mostly for a ranking a goal of sorts to get ppl to try yahoo answers

For fun, just like asking & answering the questions.

To ask questions, and also the more points you get the higher the level you go to. Under my points on your Q&A page it says tell me more just click on that and it will explain everything. Jason is wrong, asking a question is -5 points.

You get entries into the contest to win trips to the Germany 06 Soccer Worldcup, which begins in June 9th in Munich. I thing that you get entries for each point or points that you get, there are also some other prizes.

the points are there so people just arn't asking questions. answer a question=+2 ask a question=-4 so if you run out of points you cant ask anymore questions till you get points back.