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Why does WikiAnswers have such irrelevant answers?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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11y ago

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The answers are sourced from members of the public. If the answers are irrelevant, then there may be a few reasons why this occurs.

  • The question is irrelevant. People do ask daft questions sometimes. Sometimes people answer back with daft answers. It happens!
  • The question is badly formed and unanswerable. Spelling mistakes happen especially if you're not using your native tongue.
  • The question cannot be answered e.g How many grains of sand are there?
  • The answer has been vandalised. Fear not, ferocious humans patrol this site who's task it is to deal with pests.
  • The answer is actually a joke or making fun of the question. Humour in moderate quantities is welcome, just sometimes people over do it.

Of course if you don't like the answers given you could always add your own..correct one.

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