Why is Yahoo Answers still in existence? I'd be embarrassed to run a service like that where the average question is looks like it was written by an illiterate, and three-quarters of the answers are trolls.
They did it to themselves. I was actually addicted to it back when it first came out (2006ish). I was young and some of my answers were probably more inflammatory than they should have been, but for the most part they were good. I had thousands of answers and was the top rank on a few sub-categories.
They banned my account. Not my Yahoo Answers account... My entire Yahoo account... email and main choice of Chat/IM since the 90's. I even called their customer service, who told me it was basically just gone. I lost a lot of lifelong contacts I'll probably never get back.
Their rules were made in a way that if you made enough posts, then the odds were against you. I saw several other top posters get banned for similar reasons, but I'm not sure if they had their entire accounts banned like I did. But, they did vanish.
