What is the best alternative to Yahoo! Answers?

Unlike a number of other Q&A sites where the person asking the question picks the winning answer, Slant accepts that they're asking because they don't know the answer, so they allow everyone in the community to pitch in by upvoting the best answer.

Most Q&A sites give each user the chance to give an answer (sometimes multiple answers). A lot of the content of each user's answers will overlap, resulting in duplication of information (thus more to read), or information being lost in noise (e.g. if someone sees existing answers and adds...

An enumeration of recommendations is easily viewed as a list, making it a good starting point for researching available options. This is the opposite of other sites in which multiple choices may be listed within a single answer, with the need for the user to read through paragraphs of information...

When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic.

Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things.

If you're just looking for an amusing answer, this site could provide it.

The site is focussed on questions related to careers. NB: in some contexts this may also be considered a con.

Questions are asked to specific people, as opposed to being directed to the community. NB: in some contexts this may also be considered a con.

Members can follow each other, use private messaging, create their own signatures, add their social media profiles, websites, and blogs.

Unlike other Q&A websites, users of Answeree can create a signature link to show below their posts.

Users are scored based on their contributions, with the context of those contributions also being scored (i.e. answering a question tagged as being about XML increases that user's XML score). This results in allowing the questioner to gauge a rough idea of the answerer's relative knowledge

The Stack Exchange sites have a large user base. Due to this being broken down to sub-sites per topic however some of their sites have more users than others, so depending on the subject matter of the question this pro may not apply.

Whilst sites under the Stack Exchange banner are focussed on specific topics, there are a wide variety of such sites. As such Stack Exchange could be described as being open to questions on any subject matter, but has the advantage that within its sub-sites, questions are targeted to the specific...