You can no longer recommend post that you agree with because Yahoo has disabled the function. It used to be a good indicator of how many people believe what YOU believe.
2006-07-07 06:04:04 · 5 answers · asked by mikeygonebad 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I didn't know that. Why would they do that, are they liberal too?
2006-07-13 14:16:51 · answer #1 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yahoo created the recommendation option as a form of "operant conditioning." Their desire was to get as many people to their message boards as possible so here's what they did: Reinforce the behavior by offering a reward to people who post. When a person received the reinforcement in the form of a "recommend," the person was more likely to keep coming back to post again with a similar message. This is also how anti-liberal hate messages became so popular. The system worked so well that Yahoo's servers were swamped with the large numbers. What Yahoo is doing now is trying to see if the message boards remain just as popular without the recommendation option (and they are indeed losing popularity because other glitches prevent people from posting as well).
2006-07-07 14:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by What I Say 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trolls generate at least half of the traffic, yahoo realizes this by putting up front-page headlines like "Spaceprobe Finds Holes on Surface of Uranus", or anything about a celebrity.
I figure if Yahoo News! message boards wants any repeat sponsors, the recs will be back by the end of august at the latest.
And hopefully, these miserable mortgage loan and herpes pill advertisers will keep buying up Yahoo's million-view packages, and keep scratching their heads for another year about why they only get a few hundred clicks - will they ever guess that their actual audience consists mainly of undersexed non-homeowners?
2006-07-08 14:33:03 · answer #3 · answered by mr.babycakez2u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason Yahoo decides to eliminate questions on these boards it deems "offensive," yet allows other questions to remain....and the answer is (drumroll, please)....because Yahoo is comprised of liberal hypocrites, the kind who profess to welcome "diversity" and "open-mindedness," but, in actuality, are as closed-minded as the traditionalists they so abhor. Free speech is a concept lost on liberals. Anything that deviates from "politcal correctness" is censored - either physically (as in the Yahoo boards, or with such legislation as "hate crime" laws, which are actually penalizing thought), emotionally (labeling people with different viewpoints as "bigots"), or financially (boycotts, etc.).
We no longer live in a free society. We are being conditioned by the media to think and behave a certain way..and we're doing it.
Between the far left and the far right, America is a very scary place to be.
2006-07-07 13:23:28 · answer #4 · answered by msgene61@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo has taken the liberty of partroling its own message boards. This has taken away our freedom of speech in some regard. Purist form of censorship. The message boards are dying and Yahoo does not care whatsoever. Traffic is down even by Yahoo's own claims.
A pay form of Yahoo Message Boards is on the horizon, subscription will be needed for it.
2006-07-11 12:34:37 · answer #5 · answered by edna_romano_1943 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋