As anyone ever went to the math section of Yahoo?. The traffic on that site is unbelievable. The posts roll in continuously and the traffic is more than even here or any forum I have been to. I don't really want to call it a forum. The posts run a broad gamut, from beginning algebra to calculus to even abstract algebra. This is a site which has no Latex and, all in all, is very lame compared to our wonderful math forum. Just an observation. It just makes me wonder.

For those of you who aren't familiar:

Mathematics - Yahoo! Answers

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Zenophobia: the irrational fear of convergent sequences.

Well, MHF has standards for starters .....

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1. There are two things you should never try to prove ...... the impossible and the obvious.

2. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

3. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

4. Pressure makes diamonds.

Yes, I reckon you're correct. Anyone can post, right or wrong. But, if anyone does give an erroneous answer, there are others to chime in and point it out quite rapidly. That, and yahoo is very widespread in that it has a huge forum all the way around and folks use it for email and such. It's just a shame that these folks don't know about math sites like this one.

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Zenophobia: the irrational fear of convergent sequences.

And Yahoo! is well, Yahoo! It's huge, it isn't specialized but rather general and wants to have everything for their users/customers.

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Because Yahoo! is #1 when it comes to traffic according to Alexa.

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And he (Elisha) went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, "Go up, thou bald head"; "go up, thou bald head". And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore up forty and two children of them.
Second Kings 2: 23-24

My guess is that because yahoo is very well known and has a part where you can put your questions (yahooanswers part). I think that many math students just ask the questions there, because they think they will get an answer very fast (due to the amount of people), and simply because they don't even know that there exists math forums where you can ask questions. Also most of them won't know what Latex is. But for sure, if they find mathhelpforum, I'm pretty sure they will post on here instead of yahoo.
EDIT : If I recall well, I think that if you answer a question once, you can't answer anymore. It means that if the asker doesn't understand what you answered, then you cannot explain it to him. (Pretty bad system).

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Isaac
I have too few time to learn all what I'd love to learn. Only eternity could make of me what I expect of myself.

Yes, you can't post again but you can edit your answer and add more explanation.

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Similar reason to why e.g. Akon, SugarBabes, etc. etc. are more popular than, for example, Dmitri Shostakovich. Fashion always wins out (in the short term) over quality in the popularity stakes.

Because mathematics is the hardest thing for most people to learn at school, so they ask alot of questions, and yahoo is a world famous site..

And because everyday people think to them self after watching a movie "****, i'm going to be pro in math, this rule"

ETC.

with the amount off traffic yahoo gets, it could crush any forum by just installing a board.