Now I was a little naughty in the way I answered a question but I feel that given some of the questions I have seen posed, and some of the lurid answers I have seen I really was not that bad.
Leads me to think that Yahoo is quick to censor.
Here is the post......
Hello But how do they know
You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines. As a result, your content has been deleted.
Question: Is Jesus the only way to Heaven?
Details of Violation: Devon is at the end of the A303 about 100 miles west of London G http://www.airborneadventuresafrica.com
Reason of Violation: :
If you feel you were not in violation, please contact our Customer Care and tell us why.
Yahoo! Answers Team
Now my treatment has so incensed me that I have written to some media chums who will now start testing the system for bias.
G
http://www.airborneadventuresafrica.com
2006-09-03 05:41:06 · 14 answers · asked by But how do they know 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
This is EXACTLY why I would like to see the abuse reporting system overhauled.
You can make a simple answer... and I thought your's was funny... too bad I didn't think of it.. and some born again with a narrow mind and no sense of humor will report your remark as abuse...
BUT, the abuse reporting system is also being abused. There are some Muslims on here who like to go trolling... and post questions they know will get some people upset and generate nasty answers... then they set back and report everyone for abuse.
There are also a group of mal-adjusted teens with no life and no dates because they can't get a girl friend, who play on here and just go through reporting everything in sight as abuse... Yahoo knows who they are, but they won't do anything about it until it get's too out of hand.
When I feel there is trolling going on, I report it along with yet another description of who is doing it and why.
I think abuse should only be reported for EXTREME times when the abuse is obvious to the most simple minded person and is WAY over the top... and not for some laughabel answer that just happens to rub someone with a poor sense of humor the wrong way.
2006-09-03 05:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh, please, calm yourself.
Your "answer" wasn't an answer, was it? The appearance of the link makes it look like a spam advert.
If you had been on this service for a while you would realize there there isn't the greatest consistency in what gets removed and what is allowed to stay. (I often Add to Watch-list things I report, to see if they're removed -- usually things that violate guidelines are removed, though sometimes it takes a while. Of course, things that aren't reported don't get removed.)
No, you weren't the victim of religious persecution.
My GUESS is that someone who was playing "clean up" (reporting irrelevant non-answers, or reporting people who seem to answer just to gain the 2 points, or someone who thought you were spamming) reported you.
The staffer who got the report looked at your answer and decided it was sludge removed it.
This service is open to abuse -- hate stuff, people who have some compulsion to gain points, ads and spam -- there's a lot that goes in to this system that that doesn't in any way forward its purposes.
When the "sludge to real stuff" ratio gets too high, people who want to use the service for legitimate reasons see mostly sludge and go away. If that's a common experience, the whole thing will have been destroyed by a few brain-dead people.
To prevent that, there's an Abuse Report system. It isn't 100% efficient, but as far as I can see it works pretty well on the whole.
In the future, give legit answers and don't post sludge and you won't get "removed." When you see objectionable material, report it. It's up to all of us to keep this system functioning.
(Notice, your post questioning the legitimacy of the system hasn't been removed. If they were censors, they wouldn't leave these criticisms, would they?)
2006-09-03 10:30:29 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They those days instituted a coverage the place "depended on" individuals of the community can checklist issues. As close to as i'm able to tell, what which ability is the mods do no longer even hardship to ascertain the question or answer - they simply delete it. I even have those days had a question restored, even with the actuality that i finished up sending the on a regular basis e-mails that somebody above suggested as properly as posting on the violation appeals board and extraordinarily lots making a royal nuisance of myself. I had a question deleted the day in the previous on the instant, and that i'm no longer likely to hardship with it. So - definite, you will get issues restored, and the factors come decrease back with it. they won't, besides the indisputable fact that, ever EVER inform you why it became deleted contained in the 1st place, and it ought to no longer be properly worth your hardship.
2016-09-30 07:30:06 · answer #3 · answered by riesgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't what Yahoo! thinks -- they have a policy of getting rid of posts that are reported.
I once answered a question "What can I do with an associates degree?" I answered "Did you get fries with it?" -- indicating that an associates degree doesn't do much but prepare you for a job at McDonalds.
I got the same notification that you did.
You should be happy about this -- it means someone actually read your response -- which is more than most of us can say.
2006-09-03 05:49:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a corporation not the government. Yahoo has every right to enforce its own rules.
You are free to go somewhere else and start your own chat room and be as profane as you like.
But you do not have the right to dictate to corporations or people.
2006-09-03 05:45:01 · answer #5 · answered by plane williams 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you were advertising a service which is not allowed under the rules of this forum.
2006-09-03 05:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when it comes to religion there are so many different feelings about this subject. people really get upset about this issue.whatever your belief may be worship it.do it in a church or whatever you call it.these kind of questions can be public sensitive
2006-09-03 05:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Billy T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what?! Why would you be in violation? IS yahoo monitoring religion?! That's insane! Are they monitoring other non-religious posts? Doubt it! IF you mention God or Jesus, in any way that's when it gets monitored!
AND who has that time?!
2006-09-03 05:49:04 · answer #8 · answered by nici a 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you did not give the expected answer, so someone reported you and yahoo usually takes the side of the one who did the reporting.
2006-09-03 05:50:26 · answer #9 · answered by zqx357 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was the reason of violation?
2006-09-03 05:44:38 · answer #10 · answered by Gallivanting Galactic Gadfly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋