Improving Yedda

One of the approaches to answer hard questions is to ask about the same thing with a different question. What about introducing a feature called "interpret a question" ("edit a question", "re-tell a question", "ask the same question in your own words", whatever sounds best)?

For instance the user who posts a question could have the option to leave it open to such suggestions and approve those which seem correct interpretations.

Another suggestion: what about an option to add additional tags to a question in case you think that the asker missed some relevant tags?

This could make the "asker - answerer match-making" extremely efficient. Or what about an option to correct misspelled tags?

As to avoid abuse of service, this could be implemented by a procedure of submitting additions/ corrections to the asker for review. That is the suggested/ corrected tags would appear only if the asker had approved them.

Do you something along the lines of "add this to my list of questions, answers or people to track"?

Re the thumb UP/DOWN : I think that YEDDA should monitor the thumb up/down and "see" if they are "real" I.E. grades the answers or are given to change the statistics.

Another idea is to add a reason to why grade an answer with a thumb down. Is the answer wrong , the link not valid or the question was not understood?

I wrote also a detailed private letter to Yaniv about the subject but everyone can check my idea looking , for example on questions I answered yesterday 8.11 and try to decide if every one of them was so bad to get 4 thumb down...

I wrote that it would be interesting to find IF the same participants gave the thumb up/down or not.

I've seen this issue on other sites: Yedda needs forums.  On other sites, the "service space" (whether that is the question-answer system, or opinion system, or something else) gets polluted with material that really belongs in a forum.