Yahoo! Answers Servery: Do the recent changes improve or degrade the site?

I think they have done quite a good job, not much has changed on the face of Yahoo!, but the behind the scenes system seems to have been improved. I hope that it succeeds in the long run.

Thank you, to be honest I didn't see any changes, thanks for pointing them out.

Well... I'd REALLY like them to get their "AVATAR" act together. I'm really getting sick and tired of seeing all those gray profiles instead of our own. As for the changes.... let's see... 1. Allowing more ROOM for the question is fine. More room for the ads... not so fine. Kinda reminds me of CABLE/Satellite tv... it promised to be PAY tv so there would NOT be advertising... or at least not that MUCH. Now? We get JUST as much, if not MORE advertising on the PAY tv as we do on the "Free" (Network) tv! GO FIGGR! 2. Who cares? I don't "place hold" I look for good answers. I DO vote as often as possible NOT just to get the "easy" 1-point, but ... believe it or not... it is because I actually LIKE to see someone get those Best Answers! It's a GOOD FEELING to think that I helped someone get 10pts and to "encourage" them to give GOOD answers. 3. I haven't seen the "new design" yet.... guess that's being HUNG UP in the GRAY PROFILE AVATAR problem still. Ergo, I reserve judgement. 4. True enough. Generally when I report a question, I "move on" anyway. 5. I always try to chose the correct category AND give additional details so I can be as specific, and HELPFUL as possible. 6. I thought this was supposed to be happening all along? It's NICE, indeed. Now for a little SUGGESTION/feedback of my own... When people submit questions, and include ADDITIONAL DETAILS... such as YOUR question here... When I click to the "answer" screen, it NEVER SHOWS the Additional Details! What I have to do in order to answer such questions is to "DUPLICATE" my window, and then click back/forth to refer to those details. At LEAST there should be an OPTION to VIEW the Additional Details when we are on the ANSWER screen. Have a YAHOO Day!

(1) I suppose we will get used to this, though it does make the line length rather long. (2) This one gets my vote as best innovation. I have always felt cheated when I take the time to read all the answers, narrow it down to two or three, and re-read those to ensure that I vote for the answer that really is the best .............. and after all that I find I need not have bothered because the first poor answer has six votes already and the real best answer doesn't stand a chance because it is on the second page! (3) Haven't seen this yet. (4) Ok .... well, I will just have to remember to save it to my watchlist before reporting. (5) Good idea. I was sceptical about the incorrect reporting until I nearly did it myself the other day. I had sort of registered at the back of my mind that the answer box seemed smaller than usual, but didn't twig until I went to press Submit and saw the button said Report instead! I still think they should move the Report button - stick it over on the right, out of the way. (6) Oh I love this one! I've made good use of it already to give people an extra point for a really good answer. Edit:- Thanks for reminding me, H-man, I too have always thought it should be obligatory to give a reason for reporting. I have seen too many people complain of receiving a VN with no reason given. It seems most unfair to punish people without even telling them which rule they have broken.

Great observations Dad. Good to know. Thanks. Now, to your survey, what i noticed was the overall graphic design smoothening - my impression is that the re-designe is done to improve click-through-rates; Those are the clicks on text ads just under the navigation menu to the right of the question and animated/video ads just under answerer's avatar. We discussed with the guys the other day on the revenue model of Yahoo Inc and common opinion was ads are not quite visible. Now, the space for answering has broadened and advertising units became more distinguishable. I think they have done good job. on the topic of improving the experience for community members, i think it is the same; a bunch of wows and nays but in couple of weeks the regulars will get used to it.

Cheers for the info......... If anything, it seems to me Yahoo are pasting over the cracks and not dealing with the real problems. Trolls, racists, homophobics etc are rife and nothing seems to be done about it. I have questions in my watch list that are openly racist and they don't get deleted. Whereas someone innocent will ask a perfectly good question and a troll will get it removed. Seems like the bigger issues aren't being dealt with.

I like it, but I notice that when you report demonic trolls, there is a typo "Your report matter!" What a clumsy mistake. Personally I was hoping they would bring back the green reticles for top 10 answerers of a category, but even though the staff told me it was in their future plans to restore it, they haven't brought it back with this new set of changes yet. It seems the appeals process has been dramatically improved too, which would probably be the most significant leap forward. The staff gets back to you in less than 3 hours and seems more lenient (or just paying more attention) on reported content that is appealed as well.

Hello, 1) Yes, i have noticed this change and i liked it; 2) I understand what you wrote. But, i don't see the point in this. Point gamers will still be point gamers!! 3) Thumb-down!! I haven't tried it yet! (4) & (5) Haven't tried these too (after the changes). 6) I think this is not a change. It was like this before the modifications too. ** 7) I have noticed that "Show me Another" icon is working better both in Answering & Voting. It never worked for me before. Have a Nice Evening.

The only thing I noticed was the report notice you can report the question or answer I noticed after reporting it took me back to the category RAMO It will take time to notice the other things.