For Those of You Who Have Had Questions Snatched Up By The Yahoo Censor Monster...?

Question

I have had a lot of trouble with this and it seems that a lot of other people have had the same problem.

You aks a legitimate question as far as Yahoo Answers Community Guidelines are concerned yet it gets deleted by Yahoo because you mentioned a website (and it becomes spam or solicitations), you mention the word sexual (and it becomes adult content) or number of other misinterpretations of a legitimate question.

So I aks anyone who has had this problem to please go ahead and post your favorite legitimate question that the Yahoo Censor Monster snatched up from you never to be seen again. Please feel free to share your thoguhts about the question being deleted.

Answer 1

Favorite. . .

Their question: Am I fat?
My answer: Yes, you're a whale.

My answer was removed for insulting other participants, and I was issued a warning. . . . If you don't want an honest answer. . . Don't ask the question.


I have discovered that the content of the question or answer is irrelivant. . . . Yahoo uses an automated system that removes questions or answers if they get more than 3 reports. This automated system can also give you warnings. If you get to many warnings (not sure how many is to many) your account will be suspended. The sad thing is that this can happen without a yahoo official (a living breathing person) ever even seeing your question or answer. Try it for yourself. . . go register 10 or 15 accounts and if you want a question or answer removed, just sign in, report it, sign out, sign in under another name, report it, and repeat this process several times. Granted, most people don't have the time, and don't bother as it's a boring process, but if you really dislike someone. . . . Anyway. . . I'm off to spam and plunder yahoo answers. . . I might even say SHlT or Fu©K or ¢ock or Lick my Çunt - - - - - Bye

Answer 2

I have lost only one question: When will the FSM story, which everybody knows is a fun spoof of organized religion, be taken literally? But I have only asked three questions in total, so my percentage is rather bad. I am particularly irked at Yahoo pulling legitimate questions to which I had constructed careful answers, as well as pulling some answers of mine. I have complained loudly and frequently about this, to no avail: Yahoo must get its referees from a sheltered workshop, as they collectively haven't the intelligence to break out of a cardboard box on a wet day. I have been invited to join a Yahoo panel, and I promise you all that I am going to continue to make a stink about this until it gets fixed.

Answer 3

I don't like the fact that I had a question deleted and then I saw the same question but in different words and it wasn't deleted. I wanted to report it because I was mad but I am not a snitch so I didn't.

Answer 4

Why did Michael Jackson come back to the US when he knows how unpopular he is here?


I have no idea why this question was deleted, unless YA is run bu a bunch of Wacko Jacko fanatics.

Answer 5

I knew I was in violation when I posted the question, because I was asking something very specific about bjs. I got almost forty answers before it got deleted, but I was in class at the time so I couldn't read them. It makes me sad; I REALLY wanted to know.

Answer 6

I have never had that happen but I don't think that they should take off a question no matter what question you are asking. I don't think that any question should be off limits, in my opinion.

Answer 7

I know it can be troublesome, but there is no age restriction on Answers so they have to be diligent in there screening process.

Answer 8

It has always happened, such is life