Yahoo answer questions. (Experienced or know about ya)?

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First, messages. You must go to your YA profile and change your settings to allow email under the preferences>communications link/tab. Then you click on another user's name/avatar and see if they allow email. There will be a link if they do. If there is no link, you must respect their privacy.

As to responding to answers, you don't directly. YA is not a chat room or Facebook. YA is for Q&A, not conversation. You have two options:

1. E-mail or IM the user through their profile, if they allow communication.

2. Wait until you pick the BA and add comments for each user. Probably only the Best Answerer will see it since they only get a notification.

The ONLY exception is that you can add additional details to your question (little pencil icon on question toolbar) for clarification of the question for future responders. Do not call users by name doing this or it will be deemed chat. There is no notification, so nobody will probably see it.