text: are you actually learning stuff from "ask the planet"? i'm actually having fun learning and researching stuff, however i noticed that alot of people give answers such as "i don't know" and "who cares" just to get points. are you actually learning new things and researching answers? actually, ask the planet is just a contest to promote the yahoo! answers site. it's not actually the site itself. and, yes, i have learned many things. i did so much researching when i started out months ago, though, that i'm now spending a lot of time answering similar questions to what i've already gone over, but i still find some great questions that are fun doing a little bit of research for.  the best part is getting answers from other people, though. sometimes i get responses on here that any regular online research wouldn't be able to get me because these are people who happened to have first-hand experience about something which doesn't have as much documentation online. i enjoy adding a little something about my own personal experiences every once in a while because i feel that's what contributes the most to yahoo! answers.