Last night I asked why did Mel Gibson think he was a legitimate anthropologist/archaeologist. Someone else asked a racially loaded question, "Why do blacks think that Nubians are black?" I do not understand how my question was in "violation" of the yahoo rules, while that question wasn't; it was clearly racist in intention while the worst thing mine said was that Mel Gibson was an Anti-Semite. What gives?
2006-09-26 02:31:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Many questions & answers are removed unfairly..
Any question or answer that receives a complaint is simply
automatically removed..
You need to respond to Yahoo and argue the legitimacy of your point....I have received several of these "TOS" violations and have been successful in getting all of them reversed...
Your question was a legitimate one...A good one...I agreed ....
Mel indeed seems to have gone off the deep end....
His buddy Danny Glover is even crazier...
2006-09-26 12:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I don't know the formula, "behind the scenes" for this site. Could be that when it gets a certain number of complaint flags, it is automatically removed. Could be that the individual person responsible for reviewing content had an opposing opinion. Could be how you couched your terms, maybe somewhat too harshly. I would be interested also.
The only ones I flag are the ones that are obviously selling a retail product, such as alternative medicines, which I feel like is an inappropriate activity for the site. The rest of the screed that I disagree with I simply ignore.
2006-09-26 02:36:25 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not about the software. This is a public site where people give an opinion about questions and answers so in order to delete a question, some one had to report the question and the system instantly delete it. So we are the users and the judges at the same time... I kind of understand how it works... I hope it helps and about Mel Gibson... He is great in what he does.
2006-09-26 02:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by El Recio 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe Mel is reading Yahoo answers, and called to complain.
2006-09-26 02:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by bloo435 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a total enigma to many of us.
Racism runs unchecked.
It would seem that Christian-bashing is still politically correct.
Questions containing obscenity and blatant sexual perversion are apparently legitimate also.
My best guess is that those who monitor the site can not be identified or held accountable by anyone, and are free to discriminate according to their own tastes.
2006-09-26 02:48:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
People get offend here easily and the Gods jump too quickly
2006-09-26 02:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's happened to me before as well. Maybe yahoo answers picks an chooses who they thing is good for their site. "Is yahoo answers bias?"
2006-09-26 02:34:18 · answer #7 · answered by sabbycat76 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess is that it was the personal reference to a real individual in the question. In the context you presented it, that would be libel.
2006-09-26 07:58:00 · answer #8 · answered by almethod2004 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋