Comments on: Why are there so few genealogy questions in the genealogy category?

By: Chronic Hiver

Chronic Hiver — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:25:59 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. Gets rather tiresome wading through all the stupid garbage. There’s always some in any crowd trying to ruin a good thing for others…..

By: Wizard's Living Grimoire

Wizard's Living Grimoire — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:53:02 +0000

No moderators, I suppose.

It would be nice if Yahoo set up a volunteer system where people can moderate the categories and keep the questions in the appropriate places.

By: tianjingabi

tianjingabi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:15:31 +0000

Probably because a lot of the adolescent brains using this site are too ignorant to even know what genealogy means.

By: wonderbug

wonderbug — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:03:48 +0000

I think a lot of people just don’t care where they put their questions. It would be nice if moderators could moderate the placement of questions. Geneaology is about geneaolgy..not private parts, dinner ideas, etc questions.

By: micsatavi

micsatavi — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:05:13 +0000

Because answers for this kind of problems are expensive ( a lot of work behind!) and for a lot of us is not the most important thing in this short life ! It could be interesting to know but what costs!!!!

By: C_Bar

C_Bar — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:57:50 +0000

I’m not sure — but I think it isnt so much that there are more by number in that category, but just fewer actual genealogy questions — because if you read any good answer asking for sources on how to research a name, its good for most any question. (See any of Ted Pack’s excellent answers.)

What I’m saying is: fewer actual genealogy questions, because they get answered quickly or don’t need to be asked if the answer to another question is read. This leaves a greater percentage of the off-the-wall or badly-categorized questions sitting around.