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Does Answers.com have some sources from wikipedia?

Well I was the one who added info on this article claiming that answers.com does take information from wikipedia. When you see the info on the article in answers.com it has the the heading wikipedia and then information but this doesn't exist in all articles. Some articles are purely answers.com and some are just having a part of source from both. Visit this article and you will see what I mean, http://www.answers.com/starcraft. It has at the top, Wikipedia. Am I right or am I wrong?

To conclude I see no reason to remove the section I put as when looking at the answers.com database. It at the top, Wikipedia. Which means they want to interpret this as wikipedia source information so I will add the source back.

This Article does Not meet Wiki guidelines

One has to wonder if corporate authors (or answers.com's bankruptcy lawyers or bean counters) were at work here to produce such a dry, bland article—that also does not fit suggested Wikipedia format. For example Wikipedia guidelines require that the lead section include any controversy and issues of interest. Yet neither bankruptcy nor (the likely related) user-problems and high frustration levels at answers.com are mentioned in the intro section. Another example is that the entire body of the article consists of the so-called History section, —but that reads more like a newspaper's brief timeline or the tic-tock of an event—than a good history.

From my terrible experience there in the past 48 HRS, it is my opinion that answers.com is treating it's users so poorly that answers.com is "eating their seed corn." Hence; one more reason for their Chapter 11.

Here are some excerpts/examples I found of others having similar feelings and problems to my own :

Answers.com Reviews - 180 Reviews of Answers.com 
180 Reviews From Our Community
5 stars: 7,          1 star: 167

“ADS ARE HORRENDOUS”   4/19/17 
I counted. There were 5 ads without me not even having to scroll down. This does NOT include the 4 that popped up in an ad that blocked the entire screen! Awful! When I finally clicked out of the screen, it wasn't even the right question displayed!

“STUPID CLICKBAIT SUPER SLOW+ANNOYING”
1/15/17  Exacly what the title says.…

“I've never rated anything online thats how much i hate this”
12/15/16 …15 slides to get one definition.

...All from https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.answers.com

I had to press the Back-key 60 times to escape the next "explanation," which is actually the textual merger of several unrelated "explanations" about things that are also slow, such as panda bears:

Why is Answers.com so slow
... Why is answers.com such a slow website?
http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Answers.com_so_slow?

It doesn't seem like the main complaint is "too many ads." Once they delivered, now they don't. People seem to feel ripped off.

"answers.com is literally the worst designed site I've ever seen" 
www.reddit.com:  3 years ago: 
This what happens when you get a website that gets reasonably high results on Google search, and tries to capitalize on it by putting click bait everywhere, resulting in over saturation with ads and a generally terrible experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/28sj63/answerscom_is_literally_the_worst_designed_site/

To leave out the user experience would be sugarcoating it, and unfair. These are interesting facts and opinions, crucial to the success of any web site or business, and would add depth to the article and should be worked in. I don't see how that depth and power can be conveyed without using several quotations. Guidelines say: Wikipedia does not like bland and boring. (I would "just do it" myself, but my computer is crippled right now.)

--2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3030:563:EC47:440B (talk) 17:06, 3 July 2017 (UTC)Doug Bashford[reply]

I came across the 2nd to last post before mine, through a Google search, and the reddit post helps explain why this website is no longer as popular as it once was, 8-10 years. Thanks for the link. Zykodern (talk) 23:41, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiAnswers abandons wiki format

I received this email today from WikiAnswers:

Dear Answers super-user,

Thank you for your years of passion, support, and contributions that have made Answers.com a great resource for knowledge-lovers everywhere. Since its launch, Answers.com has provided a space for users around the globe to discover, create and share exceptional content. Your volunteered commitment to this mission has created its most valuable resource: the collective wisdom and experiences of a large and diverse community, and the publication of rich, relevant, and trusted questions and answers in a multitude of categories. We cannot be more grateful to you.

Due to various factors including data privacy, costs of keeping the user profile system functional, efforts required to continuously patrol user-generated content, and a decision to focus more resources on growing other lines of business, we are announcing today that Answers.com will no longer be operating in an editable format. Effective today, this means that all user profiles and logins will be deleted, and while the site will remain readable, the ability to answer and edit questions will be no longer be publicly available.

This change will have no impact on the accessibility of Answers.com and its millions of questions and answers, which will remain active and available for users to enjoy.

Your involvement in the Answers.com community has helped hundreds of millions of readers, and we cannot thank you enough for your years of commitment. We will continue to manage the legacy you helped build.

Sincerely,

Chris Hawkins Vice President, Business Operations

2606:A000:8702:2100:382C:7C5F:5338:5200 (talk) 22:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reception

The current article appears to lack a reception section. I recently saw someone link at [1] for instance (obviously written by a JW and mistaken). I suspect that some people have criticized the site's accuracy, other than WP:RSN (see WP:RSP). If not, it may well be that the site is not notable enough to have an article, lacking independent coverage. —Paleo Neonate – 13:17, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When I worked there, in its hey-day, it was routinely in the Top-10 of .. whatever that service is that tracks "web site traffic", I forget its name. It's star may have fallen a bit in the intervening time, but it had a significant run with a decent amount of internet traffic, and probably retains notable status. DBalling (talk) 20:33, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]