Yahoo Answers closing down on April 20th is a real opportunity for DebateArt users to help acquire more debaters and donaters

Yahoo Answers is shutting down on 4 May 2021 (Eastern Time) and, as of 20 April 2021 (Eastern Time), the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

If we can't ask questions on yahoo answers where will we ask questions for now on? ?

What are some good alternatives of Yahoo Answer? ?

Is 4chan a good alternative to yahoo answers?

What's a good replacement for yahoo answers?

How will I live without yahoo answers 😭😭😭😭😢?

Virtual private server: ~10$ and more

Files storage and access: ~3$ and more

Emails delivery: ~2$ and more

Monitoring: ~15$

Continuous integration: Free, but may change in the future as our requirements rise

It's worth noting that maintenance expenses are not the only reason to attract funds. Extra funds can be used to attract new people to the website, for example via advertisements on Google or Facebook. Also the funds can be used to delegate some work to the third parties, a great example would be the development of the website's mobile version. Other less technical reasons would be to buy some beer for the moderators and the developers, or to buy some nice things that we could give away as presents to the winners of the debate tournaments.

Exploiting the community
Yahoo Answers is a place to gain knowledge, not customers, page views, or dates. If you have years of experience in something, have a special hobby, own your own business, or if you are a knowledge partner, it's OK to accompany a good, on-topic answer with a link to your website, blog, or email to offer more information. However, it is not OK to post links that are unrelated to the topic or are clearly meant only to solicit others for personal and financial gain. Also prohibited are solicitations like "Will you add me as a contact?" or propositioning people.

Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru

We do not pay money to be members of Yahoo Answers. It's free and the only price we are asked to pay is that we abide by their terms and conditions (only direct price anyway, you can make conspiracy claims about data usage but Yahoo is hardly a significant player in that 'game').

So, let's see what Yahoo says about advertising on their platform.

Yahoo has a business model that includes paying them to advertise for you (they claim they try to streamline it and for instance on a Yahoo Answers page about what your product is, they will definitely try to deliver the ad:

Would Science & Mathematic users consider a debating website with a community forum a viable alternative?

I took a look, and in this category, it gets about 1 post every few days, not very active.

there is no math category, just "science and nature"

If DebateArt wishes to advertise on Yahoo it should pay them to do so. Furthermore, to specifically advertise on Yahoo Answers while it's dying is truly kicking the injured dog while it's down, one of the scummiest moves you can do, show some respect.

Yahoo Answers attracted the type of people who wanted quick and accurate answers from people, it was up to the one asking and those reading to decide which was better or worse (this could be influenced via upvotes but the asker can 'VIP-status' the best reply regardless of upvotes or downvotes). DebateArt is much more about fighting or exploring ideas in-depth with long conversations, the type of people who will remain on DebateArt long-term are not really the type to enjoy the friendly 'I ask, you answer, no further discussion' dynamic of Yahoo Answers.

You know, for now, what the site is. It's run by 2 mods who have complete discretion to ban and/or punish as they see fit as well as an owner who remains anonymous and goes by the name 'Mike' or 'Michael' on here. He claims to be from Russia but if you look at the website's 'whois' it's a self-proclaimed proxy/VPN with all details hidden. 

This is not doxxing because if it revealed anything too personal, I'd definitely not post it here. The reason I am speaking about it, is that we genuinely have a faceless owner of the website who we don't truly know or trust. He is absolutely entitled to hide his/her details for privacy reasons. The issue is also that we don't know what you will do for the rest of your life and how you personally, or the other users you encourage to mass-advertise, will make DebateArt look when and if you or the others do something scandalous (especially on that Yahoo account).

Who are you attracting? If you post en masse about DebateArt to Yahoo Answers, you'll probably capture the eye of bots, frauds, trolls you get the idea. Nothing about this strategy ensures a decent percentage of people who come to the website are keen to use it long-term.

Hate to agree with RM, but Yahoo users will flock to Quora and probably pass us by.

Why is quora so much better than yahoo answers?

Why do people on Quora ask many questions about law & interact with semi-famous people or people who've been through a lot? 

Pro opens telling use that DA is free too. What would DA think if Yahoo Answers users advertised on this website? I can give you a hint, a recent ban:

https://www.debateart.com/participants/Selinwine

Just to be clear, when the mods say 'spambot' for the ban reason, it is a general term they use even for human advertisers. I'm not saying they're lying, I'm saying I have seen that term used for any kind of advertising account.

So, if Pro is trying to equate DA to Yahoo Answers in that way, then surely we should pay them the respect we wish users and owners of other sites pay us.

The rest of Pro's rebuttals revolve around the idea that we should be free to advertise there because Wikipedia pages can be linked to.

The debate's description (agreed to by both parties upon the Contender accepting the debate) outlines an agenda of advertising on as many Yahoo Answer threads as possible. It even explicitly frames what is happening as us preying on the desperation of the users there.

Yahoo requires you to pay for advertising. This debate's title itself specifies potential members donating to the website's Patreon as a motive to get them here. In what shape or form is the motive not financial and corrupt? Yahoo will still exist as a search engine, email provider and general news source (yes, Yahoo News exists, I know many are unware, it even has different homepages for different countries especially English-speaking ones with News specific for them).

Yahoo Answers shutting down isn't the same as Yahoo as a whole ceasing to exist. You are poaching members away from a company that provides paid-for advertising opportunities that it will try and hit audiences your product will appeal to. It explicitly states it doesn't approve of using the service to advertise, users are not advertising Wikipedia if they post a page specific to that.

Unless you solely link to DA thread posts and debates that are specific to the Yahoo Answers question, you are violating their policy. The nature of acting on the Debate Description's model of advertising isn't at all to stratify it in this way.

It doesn't matter if you know you aren't affiliated with DA, other don't know that. In fact, other trolls or all kinds of users may advertise to DA for the hell of it once we begin, it may even become a Meme to advertise DA in a negative and sarcastic way. Such as, "oh hi there, the answer to your question is that pooping your pants will cure malaria" then linking to a completely irrelevant DA thread (or worse to a seemingly relevant-named one that doesn't actually support that). It also could evolve into finding actual post fringe members with edgy opinions made and referencing them sarcastically to troll. This could backfire very much on DA and its members could unintentionally become too famous, which ruins the very appeal this website has over something like Quora or social media in general (privacy and ability to speak relatively freely with harsh clashes of opinion that don't backfire on your real identity).

On a separate note, if we aren't affiliate with DA what right do we have to advertise on its behalf? We'd in essence be impersonating a member of staff affiliated with this website, over there on Yahoo Answers and the reputation of DA would be attached to us and vice versa. This is about more than legal repercussions, I am talking of morality and the concept of what advertising is and who has the right to do it for a company, on a philosophical level.

Moving the goalposts is an informal logical fallacy in which previously agreed-upon standards for deciding an argument are arbitrarily changed once they have been met. Usually the "losing" side in an argument deploys this gambit in a desperate bid to save face. If the goalposts are moved far enough, then the standards can eventually evolve[1] into something that cannot be met no matter what (or anything will meet said standard - if the losing side is trying to meet the standard using this tactic).

I think as many users from DebateArt as possible should use this opportunity to go to Yahoo Answers and answer as many questions as possible leaving a link to DebateArt and advising desperate Yahoo Answers users that this is a good alternative.

It is an opportunity that should not be missed.

I am not saying to go over and spam their platform with mindless vandalism. The link still has to be appropriate.

However it is not an advertising campaign. The user does so off their own back and nobody will even know whether they did or did not.

Simple as that really.

It really is an individual effort and completely up to the individual whether or not they decide to answer questions on Yahoo Answers and leave links to their debates on DebateArt to support their answer.

Yahoo Answers does not require you to pay them to allow you to leave an answer to a question with a link as a source. 

Moving the goalposts is an informal logical fallacy in which previously agreed-upon standards for deciding an argument are arbitrarily changed once they have been met. Usually the "losing" side in an argument deploys this gambit in a desperate bid to save face. If the goalposts are moved far enough, then the standards can eventually evolve[1] into something that cannot be met no matter what (or anything will meet said standard - if the losing side is trying to meet the standard using this tactic).

Yahoo Answers closing down on April 20th is a real opportunity for DebateArt users to help acquire more debaters and donaters

This debate is regarding the topic I posted in the forum, which can be found in the link above.

I think as many users from DebateArt as possible should use this opportunity to go to Yahoo Answers and answer as many questions as possible leaving a link to DebateArt and advising desperate Yahoo Answers users that this is a good alternative.

It is an opportunity that should not be missed.

I think as many users from DebateArt as possible should use this opportunity to go to Yahoo Answers and answer as many questions as possible leaving a link to DebateArt and advising desperate Yahoo Answers users that this is a good alternative.

It is an opportunity that should not be missed.

Yet when I focus on this burden of proof for Pro, Pro keeps replying things such as:

I am not saying to go over and spam their platform with mindless vandalism. The link still has to be appropriate.

These are all false, intentionally deceptive rebuttals because they were replied even to my direct rebuttals to similar points like them in the previous Round.

Pro is completely moving the goalposts so that his side is a truism and my side is incapable of being upheld.

If this debate was solely about posting links to Debate Art threads and debates that are 100% related to the accurate and in-depth answer given on Yahoo Answers, I would not have accepted this debate. Furthermore, if this were about one user (Pro) doing it on his/her own volition and intending to help people using this website's content, I would not have accepted the debate.

I accepted the debate because what Pro assumed was a truism (clear by how he keeps moving the goalposts) has ended up being clearly difficult for him to uphold. Consequently, Pro is resorting to severe goalpost movement to pretend I have made no valid points.

I shan't waste time of you reader posting unnessary volumes of text, I made my case and stand by it, read the previous 2 Rounds. 

The debate is evolving and ideas evolve and improve, and since debating you my ideas for how the title can be achieved have improved and evolved, not deteriorated.

Nothing stays the same RM, not even debates. They evolve or deteriorate.

LOL! My opponent admits what he's done.

The type of user that Yahoo Answers attracts tends to enjoy quickfire ask-and-answer interactions, it's not really the dynamic DA has.

2 hours ago

maybe, depends on the rules and how it is moderated.

Your link leads to a site where "debates" have a limited time. I'm not interested in such sites.  To me, *discussion* is about understanding eachother, and discussions last as long as they last - people bringing new arguments to the table.

in other words: a thread ends when nobody contributes to it anymore.

There's nothing wrong with people taking days to formulate a reply, or a discussion taking weeks