When the Yamster asks,"Have You Read The Updated Community Guidelines?"...?

Question

Do you just laugh at that hamster and think to yourself,"I never read the ORIGINAL guidelines you crazy rodent!"??

Answer 1

I'm sure they still suck, only with that special updated suckiness.

When I was suspended, they never elaborated on why....the staff respondent and that pasty suck-up YA-Fred or whatever, simply chided in their best hall monitor tone, "You didn't follow the Community Guidelines", and then YA-Fred followed up with, "Oh, and we just don't like you," before all 15 of my friend's posts on the Violations Appeal Forum disappeared. Shows you what kind of maturity and mentality these folks have. What a joke.

No, I'm not bitter.

(phbbt!)

Answer 2

Well -embarrassingly enough - I’m the type who reads manuals, cover to cover, including all the fine print, before I use something (mainly because of my tendency to break things…especially electronic things - LOL), so I can honestly say I’ve read all Y!A’s “Community Guidelines” - BUT they suck. They don’t really describe the way Y!A functions at all.

Y!A’s automated deletion process isn’t actually consistent with their guidelines. I understand that with millions of posts, the system inevitably must be partly automated, but since it’s so easy for various (ab)users --such as my fanged-mommy nemesis JanieMarie-- to manipulate the system with multiple reports… questions, answers, and full accounts are being repeatedly deleted NOT because they actually violate “Community Guidelines”, but simply because they violate some psychotic Censor’s notion of ‘appropriate’. (In her case, if you dare answer even one question she's deemed as inappropriate, she’ll send her full hive of drones after you - or so she brags.)

The Y!A team is simply not equipped to humanly monitor the myriad violations reported, so they’ve adopted a basic presumption of guilt. They set up their "Community Guidelines" and violations process on an 'honor system': that is, they have the (faulty) assumption that reports are made about actual violations. Therefore, if you receive several reports of abuse in quick succession, for their intensive purposes, you ARE guilty. Various people have long ago found the weakness in this process and continually exploit it. We’ve seen the results of this arcane system: friends lose their accounts for no apparent reasons other than they’ve offended “someone’s” sensibilities.

Until Y!A finds a way – perhaps another automated way ;-) – of monitoring and/or limiting these vigilante powers, the “Community Guidelines” articulate this site as accurately as the German Democratic Republic described East Germany.

Answer 3

Personally, I avoid the Community Guidelines. They tend to hinder my guerilla movements.

When I get a mention in them, maybe I will. It'll have to be something like:

"Colonel Chiliman was suspended for fighting against the Yamster and his various allies. The war raged on for months, until finally, through subversive trickery and down right cruelty, Judas Rabbi assassinated the Colonel with an account deletion to the skull. Many mourned his pasiing, and thusly they were violated a hundred fold." So thusly, do not be original, humorous, or even the slightest bit witty. Yuu're not here to have fun, but to serve the Yamster in his quest for infinite knowledge.

Answer 4

Sadly not only have I read the community guidelines I have read them repeatedly and most likely know them better than anyone on the staff does. I also know that you can follow the guidelines to the letter but if you upset enough people on this site you will receive violation deletions and eventually a suspension. That's just the way the game is set up.

Answer 5

Oh I read them constantly ... never let a day go by without boning up on the Guidelines.

(And, like Alec, I have also had a little run-in with dear Fred ... he didn't care for something I posted in the Forum and gave me a lovely present of ten violations on old resolved questions as punishment.

Answer 6

Yeah. Who reads Guidelines, Seriously!!

Answer 7

I mostly wish Yamster and his rodent friends would go do something useful, like fixing the problems with Yahoo Chat, instead of asking questions here. I'd be chatting now instead of answering in YA if it were working worth a crap.
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Answer 8

I gotta laugh, the yamster, ha ha I thought he was a rat, with a so called green belt on.ha ha Oh man, I wonder if Yahoo has read the guidelines.lol They do not even enforce their so called guidelines, so why would anyone in their right mind waste time on that.

Answer 9

Yes,........... because I like *my* version better!

Seriously though, I am sure my sentiments mirror those of many who use Y!A. Namely, that abuse of the violation reporting system is rampant. Power, anonymity, and/or a lack of accountability, are always a bad combination.

Here are two of my personal ideas how to correct the problem.

-Charge 10 points for for violation notices, and limit them to 4 or 5 per day.

- Create some kind of voting system, so that users can review violation notices- vote on whether or not they are legit, before they are sent to the powers that be.

OK, I'm done ranting for now, Sally;
~your friendly subterranean marsupial......

Answer 10

Yep, that Yamster is my second favorite comedian (he doesn't beat Conan).

But really, I was just stopping in to raise a glass to that prodigious pixelated person, *Colored by Numbers*, who is fighting the good fight, battling censorship, and protecting my right to inform the fools of the world (as politely as possible ;-) ) that they are, indeed, fools.

Here, here!