my god yahoo answers makes me cringe sometimes

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so i was on yahoo answers today and found this question from an english guy asking if the right to carry a concealed gun has helped any american users and what they think of it.

anyway someone answered, and i dont know what they said word for word, but it went something like this:

"you dont see americans prying into british peoples social lives but i see brits invading our privacy with questions like this on answers every day. must be a psychological flaw they possess."

naturaly, being british this has been the "pissed off" theme of the day for me.
there are british, german, french, japanese, russian or whatever race you can think of, people who are like this. i know you'll find these sorts of people everywhere, but they didnt have to put it like that.

it seems whenever i make another escapade into the world of 'internetzz' im slammed with some racist crap, usualy from an american. not from something ive said to them, or anything else, just because they know somehow that im british.

maybe if they just left it at that it would have been fine, but they had to be a racist prick and say "must be a psychological flaw they possess".

im pretty sure the guy asking the question didnt say anything other than what i mentioned that could have been prying too deeply into the life of american people.

am i being unreasonable?

oh and to top it all off the guy had 4 thumbs up.

I would just put it down to people saying dumb things and then move on with your life.

I ignore everything I see on yahoo Answers and I don't go there much anymore. In fact I found a better place to be at and there are no trollish questions nor trollish answers and of course "Am I pregnant" questions. I don't understand why people get so upset with trolls there. How hard is it to ignore them and why take them serously? It just makes it fun to go there and troll and see what reactions you get. Plus people abuse the thumbing system anyway. People can creat multiple accounts just to thumb someone's answer down or thumb their answer up. Yeah lot of people there are stupid and ignorant.

I only go there sometimes now when I feel like it.

lolbritish

Yahoo Answers users are at the bottom of the barrel.

actually that's not technically racist.
British is not a race. It's a nationality

Something about Yahoo brings out the real crazies... you know, the "vote Ron Paul so we can open up Area 51 and find out if Mars attacked on 9/11" crazies. That and the armchair missionaries who answer every question with "only Jesus can help you."

So, Seanmw, would it be called "nationalist" then?

OMG yahoo answers. I finally joined it in the hopes of contributing something non-stupid because I was sick of googling questions and finding the most ret*d answers on Y!A every single time. (And I've found that if you ask a question right, you can avoid the dumb answers.)

Yeah, there's lots of stupid racist content on the Internet, but it actually seems like the overwhelming majority is reasonable and logical. Just.. certain sites attract the bad stuff more than others. But look at YouTube. On every controversial video, logical comments are winning. All the highest-rated comments are non-racist and non-insane. And that's a really mainstream website, too! It is encouraging to think about.

I have a hard time taking anything on yahoo answers seriously. I just assume they're all trolling each other and laugh.

Yahoo Answers is a festering cesspool of dross.

Yahoo answers is the church of all of the dimwits and trolls of the internet. Check out this website if you don't agree. http://www.yahooanswerfail.com/