Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Hypothetically?

Is Yahoo! Answers designed correctly? Suppose I create two Yahoo! email accounts, and so two different Yahoo! Answers accounts. Call them account A and account B. Now I also have a database of thousands (perhaps even millions) of questions and answers, not necessarily the "best" answers, but sufficient. Now we take turns: A asks a question from the database, B answers with the corresponding entry from the DB, and A chooses B's answer as best. Then B reciprocates: he asks a question, A answers, and gets Best. This continues constantly. I think there are limits in the beginning on how many questions you can ask, etc., But these will probably become very large as levels increase. A and B can even ask questions in different forums, so as not to arouse suspicions. Considering, if A asked a question, then chose a best answer, he only loses 2 points, and if B answers a question, gets a thumbs up (from A), and then best answer, B receives 13 points, both players would be unstoppable.

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