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* [[Loophole Abuse]]: On Yahoo! Answers, you stand a good chance of gaining points quickly by voting for your own answer as the best. You get 2 points for the answer, 1 point for the vote, and 10 points when your answer is selected the best, making a total of 13 points for doing almost ''nothing''. Of course, that doesn't work if the asker selects a best answer, or if some other answer gets more votes. |
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: On Yahoo! Answers, you stand a good chance of gaining points quickly by voting for your own answer as the best. You get 2 points for the answer, 1 point for the vote, and 10 points when your answer is selected the best, making a total of 13 points for doing almost ''nothing''. Of course, that doesn't work if the asker selects a best answer, or if some other answer gets more votes. |
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* [[Obvious Beta]]: Yahoo! Mail (the version codenamed "Minty"), with several users ''still'' experiencing hiccups compared to smoother functionality with Yahoo! Mail Classic, which is now virtually inaccessible save for [http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch an obscure method which can forcibly revert the user's email to Classic]. |
* [[Obvious Beta]]: Yahoo! Mail (the version codenamed "Minty"), with several users ''still'' experiencing hiccups compared to smoother functionality with Yahoo! Mail Classic, which is now virtually inaccessible save for [http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch an obscure method which can forcibly revert the user's email to Classic]. |
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** The search engine remains mostly useless through years: it "corrects" queries (i.e. any search term not in the dictionary of a 10-year old blog-kid is turned into "twilight windows mortgage xbox") and it's unable to search multiple terms (it always does "OR"-search, which is useless, because the whole point is to narrow down to what you need - including more noise does the exact opposite, and gives auto-correction a chance to drown everything in widespread and completely irrelevant "finds"). About the only reasonably reliable uses of it are searches for trademarks, ads or widespread quotes. |
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* [[We All Live in America]]: Yahoo! Answers. Not only the users, but often the forum itself indulges in quite a bit of it. |
* [[We All Live in America]]: Yahoo! Answers. Not only the users, but often the forum itself indulges in quite a bit of it. |
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