This is gold.

Very interesting article. But a lot of the comments about YA are nothing for MA to be overly smug about either. For example:

"It encourages bad research habits, rewards people who post things that aren't true, and frequently labels factual errors as correct information."

"On the plus side, the question received an impressive 97 different answers, including a few knowledgeable responses and helpful references. But several of the postings were misleading, confused, or just plain wrong. If you started off uncertain, it's hard to imagine you would read the responses and feel any more confident."

"By contrast, Yahoo! Answers is more devoted to quantity than quality. It struggles to prevent repeat questions from appearing over and over again. "

"And unlike Wikipedia, the Yahoo! community expends far less energy trying to hide dubious or just plain incorrect contributions, despite a community rating system designed to flag them."

"Often, a correct answer will be hiding somewhere on an Answers page, only to be obscured by a tide of wrong or off-topic material that never gets erased."

"Everyone gets credit for answering, but there's not a huge push to make sure the answers are right."

Meanwhile I have to say, I did find a useful answer on Yahoo Answers the other day. I wanted to know what song was playing in an ad, and the only thing Google turned up at all was a YA question asking that very thing. And, the best answer was absolutely right.