My political question was:
"Hey liberals; how does it feel to know we are winning in Iraq?"
There were more then 30 responses to the question and I even picked a best answer but when I looked in my history its deleted. So I go to my email and there is no message from yahoo as to why this message was deleted?
Is this political censorship on their part?
2007-09-26 06:27:57 · 27 answers · asked by netjr 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well since you're obviously not a liberal then you're a conservative and ipso facto that makes you a racist, therefore your question was flagged for racism. Any questions?
2007-09-26 06:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by bluestatebobby 1 · 5⤊ 6⤋
Yahoo, it seems, deletes things just because someone complains for any reason whatsoever. So if someone does not like your question, and it happens to be in politicis instead of education, then your question is toast. Same thing can happen even if you have a fair question that does not violate any rules at all. It seems just the fact that someone disagrees with you is enough. I know your question is one that favors conservatives, but I am what you may call a liberal, and my questions have been deleted.
I personally think the problem is because there is a good chance that the people making the decisions on what questions to delete are probably not americans, dont know our language well, and probably are doing it from a computer in New Delhi India.
2007-09-26 06:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You will probably get an email by the end of the day or even tomorrow. Once they deleted my account and I didn't get a notice in the email until the next day. Also, they usually don't tell you exact reason for deleting your question, they just state that you "violated" their community guidelines, yada, yada.
Posters who didn't like your question reported your question several times (I'm not sure how many one needs to actually get a violation). It seems that Y!A doesn't even check the content, only the number of reported abuse.
Hope this helps. And by the way, your question is mild compared to others I have seen and are still up.
2007-09-26 06:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by GoYankees&Giants! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! used to, but they don't now. And yes, they should. The problem is, most people don't give reasons why they report, and in the absence of that, Yahoo! once had to resort to sending us Baynesian filter printouts. These were basically copied-and-pasted versions of our deleted item, that had Baynesian filter values assigned to _each word_ as a percentage, and the words were highlighted in HTML too, so you could see visually which _words_ were flagged as "bad", in color coding. Problem is, with those Violation Notices it became really easy for trollish sorts to game the system with hashed versions of those "hot-button" words. Among lots of other things--people really questioned what the values meant--were they really probabilities that words broke a Guideline, or just the odds that a word was generally "offensive speech"? It wasn't even that the system had problems--the system still HAS problems. It was that the old way of doing it _showed_ people what the problems were, quite transparently: too much running on auto-pilot, too little run on human-being expertise. The old way eventually became more hassle than what it was worth. At least for Yahoo! Answers Staff, granted.
2016-05-19 01:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has happened many times with me, and I can spare you the bother of asking on the violations board.
This is the answer that Jane F will paste:
"This question was not deleted for violating the community guidelines. A question may also be automatically removed if it expires with no answers, goes to a vote with No Best Answer selected, is deleted by the asker, or if the best answer is removed."
It doesn't matter how clearly you explain that you picked a best answer, and that your best answer did not violate the community guidelines, you will still get this conditional sentence.
It also doesn't matter if you make your questions private. People apparently star them or they e mail your question to their friends so that they can all "violate" you.
Nasty is right about the outsourcing, although I think they're in Manila.
2007-09-26 06:43:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best answer you picked was probably removed for being a violation.
You will get an email and points deducted if the violation was yours.If a best answer is considered a violation and removed the Question is removed too but without getting a violation or points deducted.No political censorship
2007-09-26 06:32:22 · answer #6 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't understand why they are doing this either.
I have 3 questions under the same conditions as yours that have been removed.
I didn't get a message from Yahoo either!
2007-09-26 06:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but I delete this phrase for you , you are not winning in Iraq. This all a sick joke maybe that is why it was deleted , you know we aren't winning a war in Iraq so why suggest it.
2007-09-26 06:35:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It happens to both liberals and conservatives. As someone said, it only takes a single bitter troll to report a q or a.
2007-09-26 06:48:07 · answer #9 · answered by Kubla Con 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
terms of service read it! some thing in the question was beyond the terms of service.
and about IRAQ we won the war but lost the peace due to incompetence of the administration
2007-09-26 06:33:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People love to go through other people's profiles and delete questions~That's why I keep mine private! Something to think about!!
2007-09-26 06:41:23 · answer #11 · answered by SDC 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋