Question: Why do people use question marks when they aren't asking a question? Appropriately, this is my first-ever question for Y. A.... and (I just realized) I should add it has nothing to do with my name.  :-)\n\nI keep seeing people do this?\nOr saying, "tell me what you think about so and so?"\nOr, "I need your opinion?"\n\nI'm tempted to answer, "I don't know, *do* you need my opinion?"\n\nA ? isn't mandated on every sentence just because you are seeking information.  Its purpose is to show when a sentence is a question.  \n\nLike other rules of grammar, it's to clarify your message!  Don't even get me started on other common mis-use online, such as capitalization, and periods where ?'s SHOULD be used.\n\nAs an example, "I was wondering what you think about this..." is not a question.  It is a statement, telling us you were wondering.  A ? is therefore not the right punctuation mark; a period is.\n\nI'm not an English teacher or student, but I have a strong urge to smack each of you on the back of the hand with a ruler.\n\nGrammar police!  There's a riot on Yahoo! Answers!

Answer: Yahoo puts a "?" in automatically for every question whether it is a question or a statement.  However, there is a bug that doesn't put it in when you type a certain number of characters.  I found these random ones as rare examples:\n  \nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApvN_7.MQ6QIECh9t_55g3vzy6IX?qid=20060616112837AAIhpZH\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AmwE9dp_uFTZVbCLvGxbg4MjzKIX?qid=1006051219439
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