A conservative who is a top ten contributor is complaining that Yahoo is 'liberal'. How does that work? So much parroting we can't stop and look at facts? hmmmmmm...is everything that doesn't goose step with conservatives, LIBERAL? And do you think the voters will get sick of being called names by the GOP? terrorist, baby killer, godless...
2007-03-21 02:39:17 · 17 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
top TEN contributor.
2007-03-21 02:47:40 · update #1
lol, why do you assume this is a 'he'?
2007-03-21 02:50:19 · update #2
I think that Yahoo Answers is an avenue where you can discuss things with a wide variety of people from different cultural and social backgrounds. Conservatives generally don't tend to thrive in this kind of an environment. Understatement alert.
Many of them tend to spend a large portion of their lives among people who share their own ideological bias. So when they visit a site like this and encounter (gasp!) people who differ with them, they react with rage and try to suppress the dissenters.
It tends to crush their old self-comforting canards about the "silent majority", "the moral majority", "bedrock America values", "the fringe left", etc. when they are confronted in this forum with the fact, that, yes, most Americans detest Bush and what he stands for.
2007-03-21 03:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by celticexpress 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Uh, the same way you posted this, by clicking Ask, typing, submitting.
BTW, rants (actually, any non-questions) are a violation of the Guidelines (follow link, bottom of page to read them), and so are reportable.
I have seen liberals complain of Yahoo's right-wing bias, conservatives complain it's left-wing, atheists complain it's theist, and the religious complain it's atheistic.
In other words, when people get posts removed for violating the Guidelines, they lunge to the conclusion that it was their views that got them removed, not the fact that they violated one or more Guidelines.
No one knows the algorithm used to determine "Top Contributor" -- dunno what you mean by "Top Ten Contributor"; that's not what the badge is; unless you mean on the Leader Boards, which is just points-based.
Anyway, neither Leader Boards nor badges are any indication of the QUALITY of the person's thinking or answers -- unfortunately.
That's what they are supposed to do, but it hasn't worked that way.
BTW, according to the wing-nuts on this site, those who don't goose-step with Bush are not only liberals, but terrorists who hate America.
Where have YOU been?
;-)
2007-03-21 07:18:02 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem with 'political purists' on both sides is that they don't live in the real world, where most people fall into the middle ground and are a mixture of both liberal and conservative. Additionally, if some conservatives can't cope with seeing other points of view in these forums, perhaps this is the wrong place for them.
2007-03-21 02:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well they think everyone is out to get them, the terrorists are hiding under their bed and so on.
Oh and for the record to the person who said everyone in the top ten of politics point games that is absolutely not true at all. I do not engage in that behaviour I just have a god awful lot of down time at work.
Generally I find it to be true that those who are complaining the loudest about a perceived injustice are the guiltiest of it.
2007-03-21 03:52:15 · answer #4 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
nicely, curiously you're. you apart from mght look thoroughly doubtful approximately what "terrific answer" ability. i think of all people who asks a question ought to chosen as terrific, that answer that's extremely, uh, terrific. the single that permits them the main, explains issues terrific, etc. it is not a sport; that's a question-and-answer website. whilst somebody has helped you by utilising sharing their wisdom or perception, that's in effortless terms hassle-free to enable them to understand that by utilising chosing them and thanking them in the comments. Penalizing people, basically because of the fact the YA set of rules provided them an unpleasant, stupid bar isn't very severe high quality. fortuitously, i do no longer think of maximum consumers of this website carry the meaningless badge against answerers. i desire your prejudice against those with the badge would not preclude you from analyzing their solutions, or heading their suggestion. Many TCs are knowledgeable, insightful people, who supply super solutions. Or are you here, to no longer ask and answer questions, yet to play stupid video games? if so, there are a gazillion web content on the internet for taking part in video games; it is not one in all them. Please locate one and play there.
2016-10-02 12:21:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you should be well aware, "Top Contributors" may not be the person who has the Most intelligent answers, only the ones who have answered the most times. 2 points per question answered, for people who have been on this site for years, makes them a top contributor. Not the fact that they won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2007-03-21 02:45:48 · answer #6 · answered by auditor4u2007 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
What really gets me is how some of these people complain that there is a liberal bias here, yet I've been reported many times and have had questions and answers removed. Either these people are just paranoid or they're just whiners!
2007-03-21 03:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by tangerine 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Maybe Yahoo is real democracy at work - power to the people, everybody can have their say. Maybe conservatives don't like that, maybe they want only the upper class to have their say and make decisions.
2007-03-21 02:45:18 · answer #8 · answered by Martin D 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Everybody has to be proud of something even if it's only YA.
next point:
If the shoe fits ( that includes everyone)
2007-03-21 02:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heidi, your extensive experience on Y/A should provide the answer. Every time you post a well researched answer you get a dozen thumbs down and the "stock" conservative answers of "libtard" "communist" etc etc gets chosen as BEST ANSWER.
Conservatives on this site are just big cry babies who commit identity theft of their liberal counterparts in order to present their hate filled anti-American dribble.
2007-03-21 02:50:11 · answer #10 · answered by Charlooch 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋