You can Ask a question,
categorize: when asking a question you can categorize it in a topic making it easier for others to find and answer it.
open question: your question is open for others to answer for 7 days . you can extend or shorten this time period.
Status of your question:
Open- open questions still need answers
Undecided- questions have multiple answers, and the community has been asked to vote for the best one
Resolved- resolved questions have had a best answer chosen.
Points and levels help you keep tabs on how active you and others are on yahoo. check out the product tour here: Yahoo Answers
additonal information:
It looks like this is the blog for the Product Manager for Yahoo Answers
According to Mr. Yumio the purpose of the Yahoo Answers is
Its built on two premises:
1) the wisdom of crowds notion that even if the average user is not as knowledgeable as one expert, with enough diverse opinions and ideas, you eventually get a pretty good answer in the end, and
2) the law of large numbers that says if you have a large enough sample size, you can increase the probability you’ll find the one person in the world who has the experience or knowledge that you are looking for on Yahoo! Answers.
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Here is an example of an answer and question from Yahoo Answers without having to sign in
Yahoo Answers- Example
Here is a link to the Yahoo Answers Blog
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