Question and Answer Websites

1. LinkedIn Answers

If you have any questions or inquiries that you’d like someone with relevant experience to answer, I’d suggest visiting LinkedIn Answers. A lot of the questions don’t exactly have a 100% correct answer, so it’s great to see people’s opinions and points of view working together to critically analyze and dissect questions.

2. Stack Overflow

Interested in programming? Stack Overflow is a Q&A site dedicated to answering inquiries about programming. There are specific questions about chunks of code, or mechanisms and how they function. Users can have their questions voted up or down, and that determines how much visibility each one gets.

3. Quora

Quora is a site where people post answers to your questions. It also allows you to follow Topics, People, and specific Questions, which is great for keeping up with trends and questions that you never ran into yet. Its advantage lies in its community of reputable experts. You can also choose to search for answers to specific questions right in the search bar on every page. Try Quoraout!

4. Yahoo! Answers

Probably the most popular community Q&A powered site with millions of users and thousands of questions asked and answered every day in Yahoo! Answers. All the questions are categorized in such a way that you can easily search for a related question in a category or place you question in a relevant category.

5. Hacker News’ Ask Section

If you are a startup founder then you probably know about Y Combinator, the famous startup funding group that is known for its unique style of approaching startup funding and for investing in great companies. Hacker News is their news and information meme and it’s ask section is a great place to get answers to questions related to business, technology, startups and just about anything related to the web.

6. WikiAnswers

Wiki answers have a huge database of questions and answers and they are arranged in about many categories for easy reference. On the homepage you can post questions and also see new questions and new answers for the questions asked.

You can also answer to questions asked by other people and most of the answers are moderated and the best and relevant answers will be displayed. Reference library will help you get the reference you needed on a select topic.

You can browse through un-answered questions to answer them or browse through the answered questions and add your answer to a question.

7. Ask Opinion

Ask Opinion brings world’s people together with their thoughts and experience by take a poll and survey, ask question, share their opinion and get public opinions.

We all turn to Internet to get opinions on our personal and public issues. Although we turn to forums to solve our problems but often through the conflicting opinion we got confused. However, Ask Opinion makes it easy for you by giving public ranking to all options. It is like take a public poll or take a survey on an issue and seeing what percentage of public opinion support each option. AskOpinion is an essential tool for your rational mind.

8.Fluther

Another very social question and answer site is Fluther, which has only two main categories: general and social. Fluther enforces stricter guidelines in its general section to help people get the answers they came looking for when they posted their questions. The social section is reserved for more casual interaction for opinion and humor-based answers. Users can create profiles with a personal story, their questions, their responses and more to build up their reputations, and anyone can click “Great Answer” on an answer to vote for its helpfulness. More »

With these great resources at your hands, it’ll be impossible not to find an answer to even your most burning questions! Seize the power of the internet, and feel free to show us your go-to sources.