2006-08-24 04:21:05 · 11 answers · asked by kez 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes.
I consider myself to be a good, friendly Answerer.
Yesterday, I got a violation notice. The question I was in violation of answering was completelyin Italian... on the UK site. I simply put something like the following:
"hate to be the one to break it to you, but this is the UK answers site. If you want good answers, please ask this on the Italy answers site. We can't understand this Question!"
I was polite and curteous. I got a violation notice a few days later. The reason?
"NOT IN ENGLISH/difficult to understand"
Honestly, How was my answer "not in English"? The entire bloody question was in Italian!!!! I grumbled to the Yahoo police, but they haven't replied yet (and probably never will).
2006-08-24 04:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I got one for profane language, but my profanity was not directed at any person, creed or group of people. I've read plenty of questions that are like that. I was just venting about having to read the same questions about sex over and over. How do it do it, how do it get it done to me, etc., etc. I got 27 responses and not one of them seemed to indicate that anyone was offended. Most sympathized with me and some were very funny. I ended my question by saying, entertain me people! Many did. Furthermore, I fully expected my use of the "f" word to be deleted by yahoo answers and in a couple of sentences it was, but they let it slip by in others. I expected them to delete them all. I shouldn't have used it (I am not a profane person, really) but why did they violate me for something their own program did not fully delete? Since the connotation is still there when stars are used, what is the point?
I'm getting pretty bored with this forum anyway. My summer vacation is almost over now and when I'm squeezing in time to surf the net, yahoo answers probably won't get much play from me in the future. I'd also like to know where all the "rewards" they promised in the promotion are. If you look at tell me more under My Q&A they say you get something "special" when you reach level 3. What and where is it?
2006-08-24 11:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest that asking questions about some topics - no matter how legitimate the question is or how it is toned - seems to attract the thought police pretty swiftly.
I dare not say what this subject is, lest there be a knock on my door at 4am and a black van waiting to cart me to the re-education centre. Everyone knows what I mean anyway, I bet some people have already mentioned it.
Oh dear, a commissar has pulled up outside with a revolver and some snarling dogs.
2006-08-24 11:29:42 · answer #3 · answered by Caffeine Fiend 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, i havent had many violations but the ones i've had i know were unwarranted and have been done maliciously rather than because a "real" violation against yahoo guidleines was involved
2006-08-24 11:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by mini prophet of fubar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think they have improved this forum immensely. The little kids and porn writers seem to be just about gone and it is a place for more serious questions and answers. I am much more comfortable here now.
2006-08-24 11:32:29 · answer #5 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally too easy,, the yahoo police are not very well in the head I suspect.
2006-08-24 11:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by Dark Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seem to get quite a few.
2006-08-24 11:26:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never gotten one in my life
2006-08-24 11:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and for nothing!
2006-08-24 11:26:57 · answer #9 · answered by Demosth E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!
Especially so if one DARES question christian dogma!
2006-08-24 11:24:04 · answer #10 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋