Do you think that the people with over 12% or 13% best answers are cheating?

People, we are not talking about the Philippine elections anymore.

There will always be winners and losers in every election, get over it people!

Anyway, I am talking about the Best Answers Percentages In Yahoo Answers, and I know those percentages (of best answers to total number of answers, 12-13%) are a bit low.

But I just wanted to ask it over here. This is not my own question but rather I saw this interesting question over of all place in the YA>Sports>Boxing section. You know with Manny Pacquio, still a big name in professional boxing the world over, the boxing forum in Yahoo Answers still is a pretty interesting site for Filipino boxing fans to visit.

Anyway, the original question is, the same as the title of this post.

Do you think that the people with over 12% or 13% best answers are cheating?

I have been consistently in the low 20s, normally within 21-23% myself, but that does not mean that I cheat.

You see if I do cheat or if I do really want to cheat, I could easily reverse that and make 77 to 79% of my answers as Best Answers. Easy, and it’s not really rocket science. But the question would be why?

Here was my response to that question: What’s yours?

It depends on the category, and partly in the way you select the questions that you answer.

But if you only answer in one category, which I suppose is the one where in you have the most knowledge in, then even 20-25% is reasonable, especially if you choose your questions well and answer only the ones which are really questions and not those where the asker is not really interested in the answers.

If you give out fairly decent answers consistently then 1 BA out of every 5 questions, is not hard to achieve.

But you have a point, it does tend to be suspicious the higher the percentages go, much like some people believe that Pacquiao must be on something, because he looks like he is on something.

Maybe we can tell YA to give all of us random IQ tests.

Yes like how Mayweather wanted Pacquiao to first take blood tests because they suspect him of being on performance enhancing drugs. Just agree you guys and let’s fight!

Blocked 2

And so there it is.

I was blocked again. I tried clicking on a question of the yapper who blocked me and still blocked. (The unusual thing about this is that I fondly remember answering a few of this askers questions and I even remember that in the last question of his (or hers) that I have answered, he (or she) even gave me the BA, so I am just surprised about all this).

But then I clicked on the question of the next person who asked a question in YAP a few minutes after the yapper who blocked me. And lo and behold. I was blocked by her (him too). So blocked again.

But here is the question, what are the ODDS that these seemingly two different YAPPERs who each asked a question in Yahoo Answers Travel Philippines about 5 minutes of each other, are one and the same?

You tell me?

Curses, blocked again.

🙂

Blocked

When I was still playing basketball I was used to having my shots blocked left and right, yes also from the back, from the front, and from all angles. Well, I used to be a little slow back then.

Blocking is also the name of my game when I was into martial arts.

No pain, all gain of course. I mean if I don’t get hit that’s a good thing. And of course your attacks should hit and not be blocked as well. Pain to the other guy, of course.

But as regards to Yahoo Answers, I do believe that somebody had BLOCKED me. And that is a first.

And at first, I thought it was a bug or something, but now two days later it’s the same thing. I cannot view their question.

So, there you go, BLOCKED!

To that first person ever to block me in YA and I’m hoping the last, I salute you and I hope you’d reconsider as I really enjoyed answering some of your questions.

Have a nice day, YAPPERs!

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YAP Violation Email 101

Okay I went to check my email and found out that I got the dreaded Violation Notice Email,  (and my knees started to buckle somewhat, lol).  Well once dreaded but now just a pesky annoyance that I had to deal with. (Initially I didn’t want to but I also got an email from one of the people who answered that question regarding the deleted question, so I guess in a way I wanted to sort of correct this situation especially if it was an injustice done)

And I apologize to those who already answered that question but what can I do, these things are beyond our control. Well not entirely, as I already send an email to our ever helpful Yahoo Asia Community Manager Mr. Jonas Del Rosario.

But anyway, just so you guys know.

1. Chatting is still a big hit with YAP Reporters.

2. Apparently any link you post can be deemed non-relevant, and that was my main question to Mr. Jonas.

3. And thirdly, if somebody gets “offended” that’s grounds too. Another question I asked Mr. Yahoo Asia Community Manager about. Like how can we help if if a few of our fellow YAPPERs gets offended every three seconds.

Anyway, just wanted to post all this as I want to make that reporter’s day. Although it could very well be a short day as I might just want to appeal this violation so as to regain my question and your answers my fellow YAPPERs.  But, let’s see how it goes.

I just can’t get it went people can be this picky when 9 out of the other 10 YAP Questions out there are also “reportable”, talk about having nothing good to do and having a really bad day all in the same day.

Catch you later folks, unlike a few others out there (not like you and me) I have a few more productive things to do with my time.

Hasta la vista, baby!

 

OKAY BOYP, I’LL POST THE QUESTION OVER HERE SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN ANSWER IT.

IT WAS INTENDED TO BE A POLL QUESTION:

Poll Question: Philippine Presidential Elections?

As a YAPPER, in regards to the election of President & Vice President of the Philippines, how will you categorize yourself.

1. I will vote in the upcoming elections and I already know who to vote for.

2. I will vote in the upcoming elections but I am still undecided.

3. I am underaged.

4. I do not vote. Or I did not register to vote.

5. I cannot vote. Or I am not a Filipino Citizen.

6. I don’t care.

7. Others, specify

Is There Something Wrong With YA???

Is it just me or is there something wrong with YA over in your end as well.

I haven’t been yapping as of late & was in here yesterday & a few minutes today.

But on both occasions I have noticed that sometimes, the YA questions that were showing were about a week old. And then on the rest of the times it’s showing the current Q & As.

Is that a bug or is there something wrong on my end?

Also I have noticed that there are questions in & around YA that may look like legitimate Travel Questions, but it’s more like a non-question. And instead it looks like an ad for some Private Investigation Company? Have you seen that, what’s your take on those?

Well, I guess I just wanted to rant about something, that’s all. If it doesn’t hurt anybody why bother right??

I’m out… have a great day YAPPERs!

Selective YAP Reporting

This is the blog post which I promised to talk about from the last one.

And in this one, I just want to focus on one thing & one thing only.

Are you a YAP Police Dog or are you part of the pack of YAP Police Dogs?

If you are, then why have you been selectively reporting my Non-Travel Related Posts in YAP, especially the old ones while conveniently ignoring most of the YAP Questions of other YAPPERs.

I mean, if you are a true YAP Police Dog and you want to clean up YAP, then clean it up the right way.

Report all Non-Travel Related Questions. But then again if you do that, that’s all you’re going to do as that will probably constitute to reporting some 90 to 99% of  all YAP Questions. Yes for only 1 in 10 questions in YAP are Travel Related & it could be less than that. And that would be a futile effort if you ask me. So, the only logical reason is that this is being done by dogs who are selective in their policing.

And one last thing, who has the time to even go back & wade thru all the YAP Questions & selectively report non-travel related questions in YAP. We need to come up with a new name for them people with so much time in their hands.  If only they do that to do something more noble or something that would make them some money, then maybe I would salute them.

Hasta  la vista baby… (you can’t stay hidden for so long, so why not just come out in the open now & tell us why, oh why, oh why)

Am I The Only One Thinking Like This On This One?

Am I The Only One Thinking Like This On This One?

I mean, as I go YAP lately I see mostly:

• troll Q & As which mostly are not really bad. Many people welcome most of them because they say it livens up the place. Of course that’s true, most of us cannot deny that, but only until somebody gets hurt. And what I meant is until somebody gets justifiably offended by politically incorrect terminology or discriminatory and bias content.
• homework questions and questions which would be easily answered in what, less than a minute by googling it.
• and the new breed of English translations, which I have asked about some time ago but I do not think most people understood what I meant. I do not want to put up the link here as that would be like putting a dry bone to the nose of stalker trolls, paparazzi trolls & YAP Police dogs (the same ones who only come out at night & have all this time been content to do their stuff in the dark & wouldn’t even have a single courageous bone to come over here & tell us a little something about them or why they do what they do within YAP. I mean they do a good thing at least in their mind but why not tell us why they do it.–my next blog post will clarify what I meant about this)

Okay in this post, I will single out this latest English Translation Please Questions.

1. Don’t you think that most askers of these questions are invading the privacy of somebody out there  who was the intended recipient of the Tagalog message they want translated into English? Be it a Tagalog/Taglish chat, text or email message which obviously was being asked by a non-Tagalog speaker & obviously those message weren’t meant for them.
2. And two don’t you feel by answering these questions, some of which are even “personal” messages, we contribute into an invasion of privacy?
3. And why aren’t anybody reporting these types of questions as obviously these are not Travel related. I mean somebody or some people are again going back to my old YAP questions & have reported 4 of my older mostly non-travel related questions & now they have been DELETED–and that would be the topic of my next post.

I’m Impressed!

Yes, I am (impressed) by the absurdity of  the person or persons or groups of persons who have again started to report my YAP Questions. I now have a total of 3 deleted questions (3 out of the 5 that I have asked during the last 3 weeks).

But then I am also equally impressed by the number of people coming into this blog site again, 43 visits the other day plus a handful of comments–so thank you!

As I have said time & time again, the reporting of my questions have happened since almost my Day 1 in YAP. And of course, I am not alone as many others have also been on the receiving end of this utter mad waste of time & effort.

I’m thinking, that I might have to send a message to Jonas, the all knowing Yahoo Asia Community Manager once again, so that he can look into the usernames & the IP addresses & all the trends & all the history of these people who have been reporting me & the many others like me.

What do you think?

Care to see what a deleted Q looks like, click here.

Discouragement & Encouragement

Hello fellow Yappers, I didn’t even realized it is February already, until I read a post at YAP about the month of hearts as some people call it.

Anyway I’m trying to while away the time right now, so why not write a blog post for a change? And why not?  I am encouraged a whole lot by a sudden surge in visits at this site. At least 21 visits yesterday.

But at the same time, I am discouraged once again, to ask questions at YAP, as I just realized that one of my questions have been deleted. And so I am sorry for the answerers who took time out to reply to it.

Anyway, the question as I wrote it was:

Do you agree that this is among best times to visit the Philipines because it is election time?

And it was even Travel related, so what gives?

Anyway, I am happy just the same, as I am blogging again & that you guys are visiting once more.

Thanks guys for the encouragement!

See you at YAP!

Better Late Than Never

Hello YAPpers, as they say better late than never.

I know I haven’t written a post in this blog since the New Year  ( since November of last year to be exact).

But does not mean that I haven’t been YAPping. In fact, this week & the last week I have been busy checking out YA, yes both answering & asking questions & yes answering emails too.

Anyway, to welcome the New Year (yes better late than never). I have decided to put up a link to the now yearly Answers Highlights Book.

Answers Book 2009

Enjoy!

*Great Work Jonas!