Better than therapy: Is Yahoo Answers for real?

Although I whole-heartedly agree with the aims of Yahoo Answers, I am starting to think that it is the central meeting place for all the idiots of the world. Plus although I am NOT anti-American, all these stupid questions come from Americans!

Just take some of the questions that have been posed on the site :

1. if we exterminated all the muslims in the US, would that solve the terrorist problem?

2. There's this Albanian guy called Benito Hitler who occupies Northern Italy. He sounds like a really bad dude. Why is no-one talking about him?

3. What happens when you kill someone by accident? (sounds like he is after some free legal advice there!)

4. How do people in other countries give birth? Is it the same as the US? (this one had me in stitches).

5. Are the Royal Family allowed to be gay?

It makes you wonder if these people are just making up these questions for fun or if they really ARE that stupid. But one question horrified me and got me so mad. The question was "my baby can't stop crying. Should I beat him with a belt?". I was so furious that I wrote a really vitriolic response but the person flagged the answer as "offensive" and Yahoo removed my answer.

Offensive? Not as offended as I am that you would even ask a question like the one you did, you brutal bastard.