Is "jealousy" a prime motivator for those who have unfairly reported us?

Question

Are they "jealous" of the fun we have when we go on "bran muffin raids"?

Please list any other reasons why you think a person would unfairly report us and send us "violation notices" and then cause us to lose our accounts.

Dear "Searcher" - Well said. -

"Freedom of expression" - all else is tyranny. -- Uncle Wayne (31/2)

Dear everyone - Thanks for your thoughts. Wow!

Answer 1

Is jealousy the same as envy? I think it's prolly a lil envy. Some people are born to be a "Nancy no friends" and they like to spoil everyone else's fun... and if they can do it without detection.... more the better for their [misguided] sense of worth and self-empowerment.

Although I do not personally subscribe to the opinion, I recognise that not everyone is partial to a muffin raid.. and some would say that muffin raids spoil their entertainment. To be fair, I think there might be a bit of that mixed in as well.

I suppose it is worthy of note that despite bran muffin's reputation, bran muffin raids do not make a "regular" appearance.

Can I suggest perhaps adding a lil vegemite next time!

Answer 2

There is only one truth. The problem is that people come to different conclusions as to what that truth is. Proving your conclusions become an even bigger mess, because everyone has pretty good reasons for their conclusions. Here's a silly illustration; We're all looking for the same thing; the truth. In this illustration, however, we are all looking for a thingamajigger. None of us have ever had a thingamajigger, but we do have a description of it. One guy finds a doohickey and declares, "I've found the thingamajigger!" Another person finds a thingamabob; another a gizmo; another a hickamadodger. Somewhere, someone may actually find the thingamajigger, but everyone has a good argument for why they think they actually have the real thingamajigger, and since no one is sure, the argument over who has the real thingamajigger goes on and on! I used to be one of the ones who insisted that I had the real thingamajigger. Now, I am realizing more and more that we're not supposed to worry about knowing everything about the real thingamajigger as much as we are supposed to just know that there IS a thingamajigger and be trying to accomplish what the thingamajigger does! The Bible tells us that there is a God who sacrificed His son on behalf of us. It also tells us how to show appreciation for that sacrifice in how we live our lives and in our behavior. We have to believe that. The rest is just details that we will never agree upon until God sets us straight! That is my current position on this matter, take it or leave it! =P

Answer 3

I think that is a great deal of the motivation. It has been said by some that the "clique" is using the site improperly. What is more proper than uniting under the banner of humor, and putting differences aside for a time? Nobody is excluded, they can hitch their wagon to the fun train anytime they chose. I do think there is a difference in having fun, and in mocking one group for their beliefs. I am a Christian, and I grow a little weary of others always blaming the "fundies" if they are violated or suspended. I am just as weary of scrolling down two chapters of bible verses posted to try to prove a point. Both reactions are not going to do anything other than provoke. My contact list is very diversified, but if I have good reason to believe that someone is trolling through my contacts, be they Christian, Pagan, or Apathetically Agnostic[Thank you, Icy G. for that one!] they are gone. I will not tolerate intolerance for my choice of contacts. Bring on the bran muffins and the Vegemite!

Answer 4

I don't think it has anything to do with jealousy.

However, I do think it has to do with some other prime issues. It's power and control.

Take the TPs recent tactic of reporting anyone who answered a troll. It was their way of getting people to stop answering questions of trolls. So the TP flocked together to send violation notices out on anyone who answers a troll's question. Because someone has decided that they must set the rules of acceptable use for other people that they don't feel fit their version of the TOS and acceptable use policy.

I recently found out who the leader of the TP pack is. He has the nerve to call himself the Troll Patrol King. He also stated on his profile that he has a reputation with Yahoo!Answers that allows him to get reinstated. It's about power, and the quest for power.

You know the saying, absolute power corrupts. Well the TP is a corrupt group of vigilantes. Their original concept of reporting pornographic and explicit posts was a good thing, but the TP has spiraled out of control to the point that anything someone doesn't like gets slated for a violation notice.

And what these vigilantes don't realize is that they are now looking like the bad guys and making those who get violation notices the heroes of this group!!!

For the Vigilantes, it's about controlling who will and will not be allowed to stay in here. In particular, they target those who do not fit in their mold or those they decide are getting too much points.

For once, there is a group that is disliked more intensely than the Fundies, so we're no longer on the bottom of the pecking order!!!

Yeah, I know, I'm about to get a violation notice for this!

Because guess what? As a Fundamentalist, I am fed up with the hypocritical nature of narrow minded people like you who refuse to identify yourselves. You are cowards, those who report people unfairly.

The violation notices I received recently had NOTHING that was a violation. I know because I checked the rules and it was simply a case that someone decided that my answer did not fit within their concept of acceptable questions. That means that the people who reported me were trying to exercise their control and reform me to fit into their acceptable image.

And guess what? The only image I ever want to fit is to become a woman after God's own heart.

Okay, okay. I'm calming down and stepping down from the Pulpit. I'm not allowed to do hellfire and brimstone, so I'll just preach against the evils of these vigilantes.

Okay, whose turn is it to preach against the evils of the TP.

*TP = is NOT toilet paper

Answer 5

I've never seen you say anything that should offend anyone enough to be "after" you, but the only thing I can think of is if someone once said something that ticked someone off so much that they just had it out for them. I really can't figure out why YOU keep getting deleted. (Unless the "troll patrol" has it out for you because of things like the "bran muffin" raids.) lol.

Answer 6

I asked myself much the same question when my account was suspended a couple of weeks ago, then reinstated after Yahoo investigated the matter.

All I can figure is that a lot of people of all ilks are promiscuously reporting non-violations as violations.

I doubt it's jealousy, so much as hatred and anger.

Answer 7

I think it's spite and a complete lack of sense of humor. Some people think religious matters are absolutely, never anything to make fun of or laugh about. Sadly, I also think some of the more rabid religious types see themselves as "fighting a battle" and if they can get "blasphemers" or Atheists accounts deleted it's some kind of victory over evil.

Answer 8

I think jealously is one of the main reasons. Some people fear the truth or opinions that don't coincide with their own. There are those that lack a sense of humor. And, some are downright malicious. When one or more people begin to show all five, we have problems.

Answer 9

It does all come down to that ole' green-eyed monster. I think they ARE jealous of the fact that we are witty, fun and intelligent. We always have terrific answers and it burns them not to be able to think of them that quick..
but you know what? I think that bran muffins may be the YA equivalent to world peace- what say we try it sometime ???LOL

Answer 10

Is this going to become another drinking game? Having a drink every-time someone posts another question complaining again about being reported and/or deleted?

I'm having surgery on my broken nose tomorrow, so I cannot drink.