I answered a question;
Question: Why isn't President Bush impeached yet?
Answer: A very good question. I've wondered that myself a number of times...
Yahoo: You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines. As a result, your content has been deleted.
2006-08-15 13:59:04 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Hmm... It sounds like yahoo is yet again having issues with basic freedom of expression....
I clearly can't agree with them on that.
what do you suggest we do?
2006-08-15 14:12:09 · answer #1 · answered by josephlincolnlordstanley 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you sure you didn't post something else that was a TOS violation?
Your question is much tamer than a lot of junk on here.
miatalise12560 : Clinton getting caught with his underwear around his ankles is NOT an impeachable offense. His mistake was lying to Congress about it, which was an impeachable offense yet a rather weak one!
How many times has Bush been caught in lies to the Congress & to the American public?
2006-08-15 22:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by Bad M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps it's because the question has been asked so many times that they deleted the question and, therefore, your answer.
Community Guideline 7. NO REPEATED POSTINGS: You may not post similar or identical postings. This also applies if you are including the same commercial URL on all of your postings for the purpose of directing commercial activity to a non-Yahoo! site. Multiple identical postings, even if legitimate, may be considered spam.
2006-08-15 22:06:01 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only possible reason that I could see for Yahoo's decision, assuming that there is a rational reason, is that your answer was determined to "chatty". There is some paragraph in the guidelines about Answers "not being a chat group" and to avoid answers that seem vague and open-ended, or something like that.
And that is all I can figure.
2006-08-15 21:07:05 · answer #4 · answered by Gatsby Follower 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had the same thing happen, I answered a Horticultural question and was told my content was offensive...I did not even mention manure! Some of the other answers were the LOL bunch and they were not removed. Too bad too, because I am a horticulturist by trade so some one missed out!
And I had best not tell you what I think of the village Idiot from Texas! Big Brother is watching.
2006-08-15 21:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by bugsie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YAHOO would not have given you a violation unless your answer was rude or insulting. It is all in how you word things.... like when ppl call someone an idiot or stupid. That is completely unnecessary. This is not a chat forum. It is an answer/question forum.. meaning you do not attack the questioner personally. You can say something like, '... this question is brainless or makes no sense or is based on flawed input... ' Get it.
2006-08-15 21:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks like you were the victim of a very biased and partial Yahoo moderator. I've seen questions that were WAY out of line on this site, yet those questions remained and wracked upwards of 50 answers.
2006-08-15 21:14:09 · answer #7 · answered by Solvinia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO! And I disagree with you on the Bush thing! I honestly believe that it's some kind of automatic message, that I have gotten myself. I think that some jerk reported you and you got that automatic message. I'm not too sure they mean anything. I report people but only for really perverted, disgusting, nasty things. Like I said, I don't agree with what you think but I believe you have the right to say it, contrary to what many liberals tend to think.
2006-08-15 21:05:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whether I agree with it or not (or whether you do) is completely and utterly irrelevant. Yahoo! is a publicly held company with a legal duty to do what its management believe is in the best interests of shareholders. If they think your account should be closed (or mine), or they think they should only allow people who work in bicycle factories to answer questions, that's their call!
2006-08-15 21:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's the answer that got the boot and not the question, maybe because the answer was a **comment on** the question and not an **answer to** the question, it was considered "chat??" (Sorry, that's the only guess I have.)
2006-08-15 21:09:27 · answer #10 · answered by Mel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's messed up. You're the second person I've heard from tonight that's gotten their questions or answers deleted for no real reason. They must not be looking at the stuff that gets sent to them.
2006-08-15 21:04:57 · answer #11 · answered by squirellywrath 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋