news articles? Does anybody believe that political considerations may have played more of a part in Yahoo! 's decision to do this than it might be willing to admit? If Yahoo! 's alleged (albeit not very plausible) reason for discontinuing this feature were as stated, i.e., that a small yet vocal group of participants was "monopolizing" the forum to the detriment of less "assertive" would-be participants, then why hasn't it reformatted the Forum to correct this alleged flaw as it has been promising to do for so many months now?
2007-03-15 00:03:55 · 4 answers · asked by atomic fireball 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The maintenance of that service was flawed for several years before it was shut down. The recommend feature was being manipulated in some very strange ways and broken boards were being put on certain articles. If you ever notified support about a problem, they just claimed you didn't put enough info in your trouble report.
(And I am not talking about the time when there was a hack for boosting recommend counts, that got fixed)
I am almost certain that I heard that support for that service was outsourced. It is possible that yahoo could not get satisfactory service from the people that were maintaining the site, and found it easier to shut down than to fix the support problems. This seems reasonable to me because despite the complaints from people who can't read the guidelines - the support on Yahoo Answers seems fair.
That said, the peculiarities there did tend to always happen on political news articles.
2007-03-15 00:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo was getting way toooooooooo many complaints about the Republicans who were using such vile and vulgar language and insults in their assaults against the Democrats that they could not handle all of them in a timely fashion and thought it wiser to just cut it out!
It had absolutely nothing to do with politics at all!
2007-03-15 07:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's face it. There IS not freedom of speech on Yahoo. That's why.
2007-03-15 07:17:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
People where jealous of me & my "crew" dontcha know!:) I was more popular than the actual stories.
Anyone up forlunch!?!?!
2007-03-15 07:33:02 · answer #4 · answered by danaisagurlsname11 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋