Here are 10 sites you’ll want to check out to get your questions answered.
Quora
Upvoting and downvoting filters for better quality questions and answers.
Questions and responses kept together for easier reading.
Can follow questions and keep up with additional responses.
Anyone can answer questions, regardless of expertise.
Answers can be of questionable accuracy.
A social-like site open to abuse by bots and provocateurs.
Yahoo Answers
A venerable and popular answer site.
Search by question categories or custom queries.
Question quality features like upvoting, downvoting, and best answer voting.
Content can be inappropriate for children.
Reporting feature is easily abused to have quality answers removed.
Answers.com
you’re free to add images to your questions.
Expert articles available as answers.
User “confidence” system helps you judge reputation of respondents.
Site ads can be excessive and obtrusive.
Speed of the site can become very slow.
Getting to an answer can involve clicking through multiple pages.
Answers.comcombines community-driven answers with informative articles on all sorts of different topics written by qualified experts.
A user who has a high confidence vote count reassures you that they know what they’re talking about.
Just Answer
Answers come from experts, not a site community.
Ability to talk directly with experts, online or over the phone.
you could pose thoroughly detailed questions.
A paid subscription service, though there is a 7-day trial.
Some complaints from users about unapproved charges.
An expert will assess your situation and give you their recommended advice.
Blurtit
Site is cleanly designed.
Wide range of topic categories are easy to locate.
Answers often include spam ads that have little to do with the topic.
Fluther
Stricter answer guidelines improve answer quality.
Any user can vote an answer as great, helping to highlight quality responses.
Users can refer questions to others who may have answers.
Only four generalized categories make browsing less specific.
The social section is reserved for more casual interaction for opinion and humor-based answers.
My Reply Is
Unique system lets questioner target specific groups or people for answers.
Pose questions in multiple formats, including video and audio.
Wide, international community of users.
Not as well known and smaller community may not yield answers quickly.
you might even select a desired geographical location.
The site then scours its community of experts and invites the right people to answer.
Ask.fm
Supplement questions with video and photos.
Safety and privacy options designed to help protect younger users from bullying.
A more casual social media style, so may not be as effective for seeking answers to serious questions.
Platform’s methods for posing anonymous questions can be abused to cyberbully.
Ask.fmis a social online grid for questions and answers.
you’re able to also make your questions more compelling by adding photos, GIFs and videos.
Ask.fm has also really beefed up the safety and privacy options since it’s a popular platform for teens.
Snippets
Voting system to filter for quality answers.
Ability to easily see users' activity and reputation.
Short question and answer limitations make quick reading and browsing easy.
Question and answer length limits may be too short for complex questions.
Snippetsis a site that allows you to ask short questions in 20 words or less.
Users who decide to answer your question have to limit their answers to 50 words.
When someone answers your question, you’ll be notified byemail.
Can find a subreddit on just about any topic imaginable.
Anyone can create and moderate a subreddit topic (if it’s available).
Voting system polices responses (to some degree).
Wide range of content can include NSFW and inappropriate subjects for some users.
