Yahoo!7 Answers Blog Australia

Great news! You may have noticed that our Yahoo!7 Answers blog has received a little make-over. With the new functionalities you can now:

Rate posts
Now, apart from having the option to leave a comment, you can give each post a rating. Rate posts you like the best with five stars. To do so, just hover the mouse over the stars at the end of each post and choose how many stars you want to rate the post with. Also, you are now able to view the highest rated posts in real time by viewing the ‘Highest Rated’ box on the sidebar.

Share or save posts on the most popular social network/bookmarking sites
With a single click, you will be able to post updates on your favorite social networking sites. Here’s how: for Facebook, Twitter, Delicious and Yahoo Buzz, click on the relevant logo below the post. For other popular sites such as Bebo, MySpace or StumbleUpon, click on the blue ‘Share’ button below the post and select whatever network you want to share to, then post the blog. You can even email the post to a friend or save it in your bookmarks. Easy peasy!

If you are a Twitter user and want to keep up to date with the Answers blog, simply click on the ‘Follow us on Twitter‘ link on the sidebar and add us to your contacts.

Find posts through the Tag Cloud
We’ve also added a tag cloud so if you’re interested in posts about product updates, celebrities or the environment for example, you can click on the relevant tag and find all the blogs we’ve written about that particularly topic.

We think these new add-ons will make the Yahoo!7 Answers blog easier to use and more fun. What do you think?

We all love being able to ask questions and get answers about any topic and share knowledge and experiences with a simple click. Whether you’re answering questions or just browsing, there a many ways to contribute to improving the content on Answers.

How can I rate great questions?
Like some of the questions out there? Why not star them? Giving a star to good questions helps Answers promote the best content on the site. When a question gets a star, it gets nominated to appear in the “Popular” list on the Answers home page. The list showcases what users find the most interesting. To ‘un-star’ a question, simply click the star icon.

How can I rate bad questions or answers?
Sometimes, you see answers you either really like or feel they are not helpful at all. Once you reach Level 2, you have the power to rate answers by clicking thumbs up or thumbs down in the action bar below . When you thumbs-down an answer we will hide it. Click Show to display it again. Use the Report Abuse link to report abusive questions and answers.

Remember: give an answer thumbs down if you feel it is not helpful for the asker. Report an answer if it violates the Community Guidelines.

How can I comment on an answer?
When a Best Answer is chosen, you have the option of adding comments and rating the best answer after the question is resolved. Every time someone gives a thumbs up to your best answer, you automatically get an extra point. The maximum bonus points a Best Answer can accumulate is 50.

Have more questions? Leave us a comment and let us know!