i answered a question yesterday
someone was wishing to know about mediums in her area
so i gave her a web link to spiritualist churches in her area...
how does that constitute spam or advertising ?
if it genuinly is then fair enough
thoughts please ?
2007-02-17 05:29:56 · 34 answers · asked by Peace 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I dont usually bother
but this one had me puzzled
2007-02-17 05:36:05 · update #1
Jan the answer was a link to many spiritualist churches in her area .. not just one
and if i asked for a Baptist church in my area and you gave me a link
i would say thank you
2007-02-17 05:58:54 · update #2
Ehhhh....I've gotten flagged for several silly things. I don't really pay attention. It's yahoo points...what are they going to do? Make mad faces at my e-mail account?
2007-02-17 05:32:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
its not fair - you were being helpful
incidentally can I please ask EVERYONE to complain about Violations when they are not warranted.?
A lot of people have been deleted recently after working very hard to get up to a level where they can ask and answer unlimited.
If you get violated for something that is NOT even close to being offensive, please report it with the email header "harassment by another user" and state that you do not deserve this violation. Say that it is harassment and you want the matter investigated and the REPORTERS account suspended.
I will be reporting EVERY one from now on
Lets stop the mindless yobs destroying our work
Just one point though. If you deserve the Violation - take it on the chin !
2007-02-17 14:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is along the same lines as a question brought up a few days ago. WHO knows what's considered a violation on this thing. If someone doesn't like your answer(doesn't have to be vulgar or rude)they can report you for a violation. I think this Y/A system of reporting needs some over haul.
2007-02-17 05:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by janice 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can't see how answering a question can be a violation, but they got me last week too.
Remember that it is a computer program that decides, not any form of "intelligence".
Perhaps "it" thinks you work for said spiritualist churches, and were therefore advertising.?
2007-02-17 05:38:54 · answer #4 · answered by selractrad 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pangle, I get violations all the time and I no longer even open the mails because I don't want it to annoy me lol so I delete them and put it down to people not agreeing with me lol.
I know I shouldn't be glad for your feeling sake but I am kind of glad you can't promote spiritualist churches as I came out of one my self before I became Christian and I think them dangerous spiritually and would wish all to keep from contacting who they think are dead people, but which are in fact demonic spirits. These spirits that know things because they have been around for a long time and connect themselves with people especially when they have been involved in the occult, because it opens doorways spiritually.
However I don't think it is spam and I think you are doing it with the best of intentions. I don't think you are advertising in the advertising sense. I also think the thought police need to think about FREEDOMS of thought, because as soon as we have one belief systems freedom to express them selves taken away then the freedom has been lost for everyone.
We have manipulation rife in this world. It seems to me that police states in so called democratic society's isn't far away. And it may not be long before we have to exercise our faith in secret.
2007-02-17 05:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by : 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would only be a violation if the question was a violation in asking for a specific person or organization. Otherwise you answered the question the question in what looks like the best way you knew. Keep up the good work, if somebody doesn't like it let the chips fall where they may.
2007-02-17 05:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by dumb 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You advertised and endorsed God only knows what kind of church. If I tell you of a Baptist or a Catholic church to go to (and i wouldn't) then they would have done the same to me.
Remember that Yahoo is always trying to watch their butts because if you send someone to a specific location, and you are an axe murderer waiting for her there, then Yahoo is gonna have bad press. Got it?
2007-02-17 05:55:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel for you Pangel, you always answer honestly
I lost 10 questions in a matter of five minutes so now I don't ask anymore questions because as soon as I do bang they are gone and you know I dont ask stupid questions and don't judge or swear same as you
God Bless You
2007-02-17 09:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At some point we need to all be born again into a spirit of forgiving others, no matter what they say on this chat group. We are orginally born to feel we have the right to hold a grudge and seek revenge when someone has hurt us (mentally, emotionally, or physically).
How do we do that? It seems we must be born again into a new personality with a new "justice system". A "justice system" that no matter what, we will not hate, or hold a grudge, or seek revenge; ......... no matter what.
Until that time, we are simply selfish babies thinking only of ourselves and our right to judge who is to be punished for not agreeing with us.
smiles ---
PS: I suppose a few of us regulars, who feel that "freedom of expression" is important, should take a vow of refusal to ever report anyone for any reason. I made that promise to myself. I did break it one time when I reported a case of a person showing two people naked and having sex on his avatar.
Should I have reported that avatar?
Maybe our vow should be that we will make a concerted effort to never report anyone, for any reason.
What do you think?
2007-02-17 05:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ok as i am only answering the question, please do not feel that i agree or disagree with the answer, i think the reason you got accused of violation, is because you posted a link to a website outside of yahoos control, and even though you were only doing it as a way of being helpful, at the end of the day yahoo as well as other browser services like msn , will class it as on a par with advertising, which in turn breaks their guideines, so irrespective of whether you were being helpful or privately advertising,(please do not feel offended here) as i am demonstrating yahoos stance, then yahoo will take it as a violation of their rules..
2007-02-17 05:43:23 · answer #10 · answered by little helper 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Often times when answering questions I leave a link to my web-site for further reference.
I don't consider this as spam or advertising as I don not profit from my web-site in any way.
I don't see why what you did would be considered as wrong.
2007-02-17 05:34:46 · answer #11 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋