Yahoo Violation - Is my answer any more derogatory then the question?

Question

Question: What kind of punishment should we give people that dare disagree with the war ?

Question Details:

Deleted Answer: How about locking them up in room with you, shackled and tied up and making them listen to your opinions for 2 hours?

Your opinion?

Answer 1

My opinion is that you were totally justified in giving the response that you did. Unfortunately, anyone can report your response as being inappropriate ... this includes anyone that disagrees with your response.

I wish I'd have come across the question. There'd have been at least two of us then that had a Yahoo! Violation.

Answer 2

YA! fascists are at it again.

There are different moderators with different opinions so sometimes they censor one ideology and sometimes a different ideology.

No one is perfect and it can be difficult to determine what is "hate speech" and what is "free speech".

I would think shackling a person to a wall and forcing them to listen to you would be much worse punishment, but, that is an opinion.

PS: From the wording I figure the questioner is a Liberal Troll. Conservatives and Moderates who support the action in Iraq support Democracy and Free Speech where Liberals are usually trying to censor people.

PPS: "Objectionable Speech" and "Insulting" are subjective terms and require a judgment. I found nothing insulting or objectionable about the question or answer and most of the answerers didn't either regardless of political conviction.

There are some who found the answer objectionable. There will be some who find the question objectionable. You can't make everyone happy and expressing an opinion will always upset a fascist.

Answer 3

I find your answer to be rather well put !!

Seems to me that the vast majority of Americans now disagree with the 'war', especially now that the truth of W.s lies has been proven beyond a doubt.

I hope your answer was in jest, otherwise it should be you who should be "shackled..." !!

To "disagree" with the 'war', even at the time prior to its beginning would still have been the right thing to do.

However, for the politicians, the 'pressure' upon them, especially the Democrats, due to W.s lies which were considered to be truths at the time made it impossible, save a few, to vote against an attack on Iraq.

Remember, with a congress totally dominated by Republicans, it was a 'no brainer' that 43 was gonna get his way no matter what !!

Answer 4

It's not Yahoo, it's the people on this forum. If you really look at the questions and answers almost every one could be violated for some reason or other. I tend to answer questions in the tone they are asked and this question obviously is meant to incite everyone against the Iraq mess. The voice of intolerance is loud and clear in this question, the person asking should be water-boarded since they obviously would also agree with that tactic. Give them a dose of the medicine they would prescribe to others.

Answer 5

You should keep in mind, unlike some of them are saying it may not have been the person that asked the question, i have had answers deleted and received a violation on questions where i know the asker i also know that they did not report it, some people get violations and then report the questioner when in fact they did not do it.

Answer 6

Your answer isn't more derogatory than the question but and this is the important part you are never allowed to go outside the community guidelines when posting here.

Their logic is if you see a question that's offensive you have the option to report and not answer. If you decide to answer anyway you still have to follow the community guidelines.

You might not agree with this logic and to be honest I myself think they take this a little too far considering all those valuable posters who got violations for calling out clones because that's not an answer. Not to mention those of us who got violations in the past for calling out folks who posted virus links or sexually explicit insults about children.

Still their website, their rules and their logic

Answer 7

I believe that to many crybabies exist on Y!A, and vindictive whiners as well... However, you did insult and show disrespect to another user... That's against the Y!A Community Guidelines and you wouldn't have a chance even on appeal... It's almost as bad as violating the *Prime Directive*... It sucks, I know from personal experience.... The only good that comes out this is it teaches one to be *very* careful in wording a response.... you need to learn how to insult while sounding more neutral or even a left handed compliment... Look at it this way.. it's like being in training to be a politician...

Answer 8

We should start with

derogatory: tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory:

In active debate or political theater why would That be forbidden. eg. Toyota is better then Honda ie a derogatory statement.

Answer 9

No but he followed the question and answer format while you did not. If you had said I am not sure and then you had answer with a question you would have fulfilled the requirement of an answer that follows Y/A guidelines. His question is offensive and does not represent the model for a good republic . My opinion is that people should not report people for silly community guidelines .

Answer 10

OMG! You're kidding right? I don't think your answer should have been deleted... but it doesn't surprise me that it was. Take notice of how the question was worded. The person who asked has extreme prejudice against people who disagree with the war. Your comment pissed him/her off and they or some fanatic that agreed with the asker had your answer removed. People that feel that strongly about a situation are never open minded enough to take criticism or opposition to their beliefs.

I feel like that was BS!