Yahoo!7 Answers Australia

Many of you have noticed that Answers was updated recently as part of our continued efforts to respond to your feedback and to make the site as fun and easy to use as possible. As an editor working on Answers, I get to peek behind the curtain while our engineers and product managers are hard at work on fixes, bugs, and features and I wanted to share with you a glimpse of what the team is working on. Here are some of the newest features fixed during last week’s update.

Refining “Top Contributors”

The team has taken a lot of the feedback into consideration regarding “Top Contributor” badges. One of the criticisms that really resonated was the need for the Best Answer percentage to be weighted more heavily in the selection criteria, so we’ve applied a tweak requiring a higher percentage in order to earn one of these badges. We are aware of the other issues the community has with the “Top Contributor” badge and we’re still considering other changes for future updates.

Speedier Troll Deletions
Our Customer Care Team is thrilled with a recent enhancement to our abuse tools that allows for multiple troll deletions at once. This helps them fend off troll attacks all at once – effectively removing abusive content from the site at a quicker pace, and at a much larger scale so that the community will have less junk to filter through on their own. The entire team is dedicated to finding bigger and better ways to improve content quality on the site, and this is yet another tool to help us achieve this goal.

Disappearing 360 Images
Many Answerers use photos that they’ve uploaded to their 360 pages as their avatars on Answers. Unfortunately, a bug was preventing Answers from surfacing 360 images as user profiles in some cases. We’ve heard everyone’s woes, and believe us, we feel your pain. As editors we were also dealing with missing images when programming Q&A on the Answers front page. Thankfully our engineers have come up with a fix that will increase the reliability of 360 photos appearing on Answers profiles where they belong.

The team is continuing to work hard on tackling the issues you are reporting so you can count on some very cool updates down the road. Thank you for continuing to make Answers the thriving community it is!

Clea