How y/A now just delete your questions because they don't agree with you?

Question

"Yahoo Answers reserve the right to delete any answers that may not comply with individual views of Yahoo Answers administrators"

All I asked was why some people just believe the bible and don't research it, thanks, y_a_jane! proof that answers is indeed a form of thought police. fachists...and no this isn't a question.

Answer 1

be care full

too much griping, and you may loose your account, i have lost a few with too much griping, trying to maintain my tong :)

Answer 2

Yahoo Answers does not have a group of people watching the questions and pulling the ones they deem unworthy. They depend on the people answering questions to do the work. That is where the problem is, the questions are reported by unsupervised people who can report any question they want for any reason. If someone is offended by your perfectly valid question or answer then that person can just report you. If you offend enough people (even though your question/answer violated no rules) you get that pesky violation notice.

I had an idea once about allowing the users on here to vote on reported questions. Have a different category where suspect questions end up and have people go on and vote whether or not it should be a violation. That idea got shot down pretty quickly. They were afraid people would use it for point gaming. Whatever. This idea at least made it harder for people to just go in and shoot down questions.

Something else that I think was a mistake on their part was dumbing down the reporting process. A while back, you had to select from a list, which reason you believed the question was in violation of. Now, there are two selections with everything lumped together. Useless. Completely useless.

Another problem is that you are not informed of what your violation. They just say that you violated the rules. I had a violation once on an answer that I could not see why it was a violation. I responded in the email and the reply was for me to read the community guidelines. I have read the community guidelines. My answer did not violate them. I wish that if you got a violation, you be told exactly how you violated the rules. That would at least show that Yahoo is somehow monitoring the report submissions.

Answer 3

Let's not forget, that America may just be on it's way to a military country. There really is no such thing as freedom of speech anymore. Did you know if you discuss bombs or anything that might hint of disaster in a public place, a person can call the police on you, and investigate.

When asking questions about any kind of bible or religion, it can be quite tricky, especially since most people really don't think about what they believe in, and take it at face value. Research is probably a foreign language to them. If a person is, frankly, not educated (not just college), then how on earth would they think of researching a bible, when they don't know where to begin.


Like I said before, America, just might be on it's way to a military state,

Answer 4

Is that from the Terms of Service? If so, at least they're telling us that they'll delete whatever they want. Before they would do that while claiming people violated guidelines when they didn't.

Answer 5

I agree 100% I wish that we could delete yahoo police!

Answer 6

depend on the person who determined the rules some are so obvious and they pass some are not even quite violating but got violation it happened to me few times I didn't say bad words or insulting I was just telling a story just like they tell jokes by asking.

Answer 7

"Answers is indeed a form of thought police"

I disagree; they've made it very clear up front that you are voluntarily entering THEIR playground. Once you created an account, you agreed to abide to whatever rules they dream up.

You don't HAVE to be on Y!A, you know.

Answer 8

Jane has a clone that goes on and says truly idiotic things. This is one of them. The troll-clone was pasting that statement on a lot of questions over there this morning.

Answer 9

I agree...People have a right to ask questions. If one doesn't like the question, just don't respond or thumbs down..hahaha...there are some hateful spirits up in here!

Answer 10

Ya know... AZ is right... we are in their little cyber-house, and their rules apply. Perhaps someone should open a competing forum? I wouldn't, it would be such a headache! All the griping, complaining, and trolling.... ugh!

Answer 11

Agreed.