Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines
Overview
Yahoo! Answers is an online community in which participants can ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics, from the serious to the irresistibly trivial. Yahoo! Answers strives to make the community a safe and enriching place by encouraging our members to conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, decency, and respect. Your use of Yahoo! Answers is subject to these Community Guidelines. We reserve the right to modify these guidelines at any time.
Format
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Context
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Age Restriction
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Response to Violations
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Content & Usage
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MAINTAIN THE FORMAT: This is a Q&A community, so please keep postings to this format. Post questions in the form of a question, and do not post answers unless you are attempting to answer the question. Note that if a question is removed, the associated answers and comments are also removed.
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Who here likes steak?
How many points do you have?
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2006-12-17 01:58:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
TR - don't feel so bad i got a violation notice because i asked what everyone wanted for christmas...now THERE'S an offensive statement...lol.... ; )
2006-12-17 02:09:16 · update #1
ALLANSC20 - and therein lies the point...its silly, there IS tmi and few read it all. you have ppl reporting you for violations that aren't even violations because they are jealous, in a bad mood, angry at the world, peeved at something and they take it out on you no matter how innocent your questions are. its silly and mean but i guess there are a lot of ppl out there just like that.
2006-12-17 02:11:51 · update #2
SLEEK - oh no...you'll probably have some nutcase report you for that ! silly isn't it ! keep posting though you got the right attitude
2006-12-17 02:12:45 · update #3
SINNED - so underwhelmed you just HAD to stop and take the time to respond....hmmmm....your life must be very 'exciting'....
2006-12-17 02:15:36 · update #4
While I am sure that I have annoyed a lot of people with some of my answers, I never got reported.
Some people deserve a "snippy" (or, if you perfer "naughty") answer becuase of the way their question is phrased. Some intentionally insult others beliefs or non-beliefs by asking loaded questions that have no meaning.
Then, of course, there are people like "man" who does nothing but annoys everyone else. If I could find a way to get a message to that person/bot, it would redefine the word rude.
Anyway, I generally try to stay inside the guidelines becuase I think that it is possible to disagree with a person without insulting the person.
As for offending minors, I think the worse word I have ever used here was butt. I do try to be careful about that.
PS: When I am nice, I am nice, when I am naughty, I am very nice.
2006-12-17 05:45:03 · answer #1 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Double D's
2016-05-23 01:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is interesting and now most people are guilty in some way and may be violating the rules.
2006-12-17 03:11:12 · answer #3 · answered by Firefighting Hero 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you'll actually think that people are going to read all that ****. I'm going to be honest i break some of the rules on here because some of the questions are sometimes to boring .
2006-12-17 02:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by Alicia-brandon15 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm not for the most part but I do break the rules at times.
2006-12-17 02:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why honey, why? And who here likes steak?
I've had a couple of violations that made me feel like I had to sit in the corner in my 1st grade class.
2006-12-17 02:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by Sleek 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I have over 9000 points and I've gotten one email to "watch it" from Yahoo. I must be doing something right.
2006-12-17 02:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Gabby_Gabby_Purrsalot 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No, I'm not in violation(this time) Have no idea why you had to print out the entire rules
2006-12-17 02:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by Taylor29 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
HEy thanks for that I needed to rad all that and am not in iolation yet. But I Would like to lick and kiss your body all over then spank that puppy.
2006-12-17 02:05:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
very good
2006-12-17 02:01:33 · answer #10 · answered by Lil Jello 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋