Was Yahoo! Answers like a small town where everyone knows everyone?

Yes it is, just like New Concord, Ohio where I was for Christmas with family this past year. 

More like a giant costume party that nobody was invited to, that everyone crashed, and where nobody ever really knew anybody because everyone was always wearing a mask and would even sometimes put a second mask on top of their first mask in the form of the "Anonymous" colombina eye mask, previously the blue mask.

Yahoo Answers was like a second home to me, it's sad that it's shutting down  

I've been here since 2009

Yep. It was. I will

Miss it 

I feel this more now than I did at any other time.

No........................

Yeah. Except for me. Everyone has me blocked. Including you. And I'm a fan!