Is 'hater' an overused word?

I definitely think so. That word had to have originally came from the ghetto. Someone might accuse you of being a hater because you disagree with them about something.

The fact is, people who use this word a lot are not taken as seriously as they think. Overall, such people probably have an expectation that other people are supposed to relate to them more easily than what they actually do.

The urban dictionary had some interesting submissions for the definition of that word.

I am a proud hater of the word hater, and of anyone else who over uses such words. Make sure to hate on me in your comments for this blog post if you disagree with me, or make sure to love on me with a comment if you agree with me.

If you're indifferent- you can write some variation of "I'm indifferent" but if you're vulgar about your indifference, I'll assume you're another one of those haters who pretend to just not give a damn.

Back to reality

People who over use these words need an IQ boost.

What are some questions you would like to ask on Yahoo Answers, but the reporter trolls keep on removing it?

There was a user of Yahoo Answers and Formspring named Bailey. She announced months ago that she had brain cancer and the odds of her surviving were very slim. She said on Formspring a couple of months ago that she is going to the hospital again because she is sick. I wonder if she died or not?

I'm blogging about this because I asked a question about it a while back, it got 5 answers and 5 stars, then the reporter trolls deleted it. Its technically against Y!A rules to ask about another user but the reporter trolls are just empty on the inside so they make sure to report whenever possible.

Leave comments if you know anything.

Change the styles of websites you visit

Stylebot is an awesome free tool which lets you change the CSS (cascading style sheets) of any website you visit, to your own viewing of course. This is for the Google Chrome browser.

You're best off knowing the CSS syntax to be able to do more than just basic things with it. However, using it is a great way to teach yourself CSS alongside a manual for it. As a reminder, CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS.

So, this video demonstrates usage of stylebot. Its quite easy.



If stylebot is right up your alley, I also recommend checking out another free browser ad on (for Firefox) called Greasemonkey. This is for altering or adding JavaScript for websites you visit. You might have heard of that before, but I like to write as if everyone is a complete beginner.

There is a 'lite' version of Greasemonkey for Google Chrome but as the name suggests its functionality is not complete.

Get helpful answers to your questions on the internet

If you searched for a list of Question / Answer websites on the web, most often you would probably see a list like this:

• Yahoo Answers
• Fluther
• Askville
• Answerbag
• Answers.com
• Etc

But you know what? Just after I started writing this blog post, I decided to Google Q/A websites and this is a good list of them. The list of Q/A sites on that website is missing a few important ones.

AOL Answers The volume of answers you'll receive per question won't be high but because its a nice looking website in which you can format text however you want in your Q/A, it definitely deserves an honorable mention. Also, its from AOL which is one of the first mainstream ISP's to hit the market.

Reddit Although Reddit is mostly known for sharing links and commenting on them, there are many different sections inside of Reddit which are often times referred to as Reddits or Subreddits. The link on this blog post for Reddit goes directly to AskReddit. There are similar subreddits on there as well (keep in mind you are expected to categorize correctly.) Although your account won't be suspended easily on such a site, low karma on Reddit will make it more likely that your submissions will get ghosted. (Caught in the spam filter, and they don't make this very obvious for you.)

Stack Overflow This is another site where you can ask questions and give answers, but its a specialty website for computer programmers.

Just Answer This is specifically for receiving expert advice. It does a little bit of money, but if you're not satisfied with the answer you receive you can get a refund.

Formspring This website reminds me of Twitter more than a Q/A website. Although you can 'Ask questions' to individuals, people that you follow, people who follow you, etc you can submit a comment to them in the same way you would ask a question. The motto of Formspring is 'Ask me anything' but I a more accurate motto would be 'Say anything to me.' Its more of a Social Networking website and it fits in better with Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace than it does for Q/A websites.

If there are any similar websites you think are worth pointing out, you can leave a comment about it.
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Don't let your IP Address get flagged

If you get suspended from any kind of a forum or website, its best to wait a while before you rejoin, if your primary internet usage is from one IP Address.

Yahoo Answers was suspending the crap out of me yesterday simply for opening up new accounts, and no violations were necessary for the accounts to get suspended. Each and every question and answer submitted from those accounts were auto deleted. So some of my time was wasted for sure.

I use a text automation program called Texter which is free and easy to use. If you enter a lot of repetitive text or do a lot of mindless repetitive tasks on your computer, this is one good program to use. How does it relate to this post? You can open up accounts on Yahoo Answers a bit quicker. This is the script code I use for that. (When you create a new Hotstring in Texter, you would select the Script option for something like this.)

Dan{TAB}Man{TAB}{DOWN}{TAB}{DOWN}{TAB}1{TAB}1983{TAB}{TAB}55444{TAB}Desired.Username{TAB}{TAB}desiredPassword{TAB}desiredPassword{TAB}{TAB}{DOWN}{TAB}alalalala{TAB}{DOWN}{TAB}edwqa{TAB}

The problem with this is that it wouldn't get past those damn Captcha codes. I hate the people who invented that! They're so annoying. I like people who fight spam, but I wish that alternatives to Captchas would be considered more often.

So in the script above you may have to replace the desired username each time or click one of the suggested ones. I'm kind of a novice when it comes to macros and Windows scripting, there is probably something out there even better than what I just described.

Google Answers - You are missed and wanted back.

A lot of people are fed up with reporter trolls and glitches within Yahoo Answers.

If Google Answers were still around competing with Y!A, I think they might smoke them.

The Google Answers website is still around, but new questions and answers are not accepted.

How about we petition to get it back up!

Update: As it turns out Google Answers was completely different from Yahoo Answers. With GA, experts got paid for answering questions.

In Yahoo, its more about volume. In Google, its more about quality.

Kind of like the Microsoft business model vs Apple.

Should Yahoo Answers allow HTML/CSS to be inserted inside of posts?

I think this should be allowed. However, it would make the site run a bit slow since it would have richer content so obviously this would be one of the cons.

We live in an age of Web 3.0, so in the not too distant future this kind of slowness may stop being an issue.

It would also be nice if our photo / avatars were bigger. Then we could see some more details of faces (for those of us who use our actual photos.)