Why do they have a Terms of Service that will delete your post if they feel you violated it. Why should this privately owned corporation who provides us with this free service put rules that won't let us speak freely? Now Liberals/Conservatives, why do you blame each other when one of your posts gets deleted?
2006-10-09 14:41:20 · 22 answers · asked by Enterrador 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They have published community guidelines and you agreed to abide by them when you signed up for answers. That being said they are not very fair in administrating this. They take the reporting persons word for it instead of reading the question.
2006-10-09 14:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
If Yahoo hated free speech, it wouldn't have created Answers in the first place. Since, as you say, it is a privately owned corporation, it can create any rules it likes to govern the free service.
As for your last question, who else are they going to blame? Yahoo?! That would include an admittance of guilt that, perhaps, they also violate the terms of service they agreed to uphold when the registered.
2006-10-09 14:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I suppose with the fact that we are all 'anonymous', some sort of 'censorship' must be maintained. What gets me, though, is that this 'censorship' is applied in a very stupid way. I have seen some very crude and insulting things said here, and nobody does anything about it. (Including myself, 'free speech' and all that) I have been reported 3 times, my answer was deleted, (anti-Semitic, because I dared to criticise Israel) and then I get invited to say something in my defence to 'Customer Care'. And then: NOTHING! My answer stays 'deleted' and that's it!
And the excuse of a 'shortage of staff' doesn't wash either, it's something like the City giving you dirty water because too many people are connected to the water network. (Bad service!)
2006-10-09 14:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
My friend, you can say and post damn near anything you want here. As long as you don't personally, directly, attack another user or make threats or use ethnic slurs or use obvious profanity.
I can certainly express myself easily within these guidelines and have no problems with them.
As to Yahoo being a privately owned company, wherever did you get that idea. Yahoo has been a public company with publicly owned and trades stocks from the beginning.
2006-10-09 14:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
1. It's their ball... they get to make the rules
2. Yahoo pays little or no attention to this forum, the whiners and complainers can "report abuse" for anything..
3. The rules (see #1 above) are so vague that you can violate them by just asking/answering any question.
4. It sucks, but that is the nature of this forum
2006-10-09 14:47:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They are providing a service that they want to be open to everyone. The only posts that get deleted are attacks on other posters, posts with foul language or adult content, or posts that aren't questions, but just someone spouting their thoughts.
I think they're pretty fair.
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2006-10-09 14:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by FozzieBear 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Usually someone has to report you for them to catch a violation and I have noticed quite a few thin skinned whimps that report you if you hurt their feelings.I made a point about Clinton and no derogatory remark what so ever and she reported me because she said I hurt her feelings because she like Bill Clinton.So this site is a joke and mid as well play it like one right?
Holy cow I gave Answerman a thumbs up..,kewl..,guess we can agree with something lol.
2006-10-09 14:47:28 · answer #7 · answered by halfbright 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with Answerman. If you saw the last thing
I got a violation for, you would laugh out loud.
There's no way they read the questions or answers!
2006-10-09 14:47:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think you answered your own questing when you said "Why should this privately owned corporation who provides us with this free service. #1 it is private,#2 it free,#3 to protect themselves
2006-10-09 14:45:20 · answer #9 · answered by snoutcounter 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo has every right in the world to delete whatever it pleases, if they can justify in in the Terms and Agreement; and even if they can't, what can you do, sure for the money you've paid them??
2006-10-09 14:46:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋