Is anyone else doing a deep dive into the history and failures of Yahoo! Answers?

I've been interested, yes. I just don't understand it. Maybe Verizon Media never wanted Yahoo answers. Perhaps it was part of the sale package, and they had to take it. Perhaps, as someone here suggested, they were under obligation to keep it for a certain time period. But considering they HAD it, they should have tried to make the best of it. The programming SUCKS. They never moderated it, other than by users. I believe they did have 'trusted users' with special reporting privileges, but one of these trusted users stated on here that these trusted users were often unfair, deleting questions for little reason, and making many good users leave, allowing trolls to come in. They allowed NO communication between us users and themselves. They could have at least provided a chat feature, as you see on other websites. Their customer care email was a joke.

No. I've been here throughout the life of the site, so seen how things changed (for better and worse). 

Yes and if I was a professor I would make it a college course. 

@Jim2, yes, totally get it. The lack of development by Yahoo on this platform is crazy to me. They did things to make it hard to scrape their data, but they did almost nothing to improve the user experience. :(