Comments on: Yahoo Deactivating Accounts Because of “Answers”

By: Dan Suffolk

Dan Suffolk — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:38:31 +0000

Thanks for a great read, I got myself banned after two people reported me on my views and being blunt. Its true that people can target you and get you banned very quickly. Anyway off to open a new account and get traffic

By: Cleo

Cleo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:59:20 +0000

I really, really wish I'd seen this article before I decided to foray into answering a few questions. Evidently some shithead kid did not like that I lectured him for posting his homework verbatim to Yahoo answers, so they deactivated my account, which I've been using for over seven years, and have a lot of sensitive information stored to that I can now not ever access again. In short: FU YAHOO.
It's ridiculous that they would even link the Yahoo answers and your Mail account. They're completely separate affairs. WTF?

By: yom kelly

yom kelly — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:45:41 +0000

yahoo advertises for its website,phone/internet service on tv,cable,radio,collects fees from insurance.car loan,college loan companies,pet food,and touts itself as a free forum to users,,,,,there are perhaps 25,000 questions on culture,politics, language,social science,mental health,law enforcenent,,,,,not 30 but maybe 50 thousand,,,,,the qs& as are each repeated 25 or thirty times,,it is IMPOSSIBLE to express an opinion about anything without getting someones goat,and possibly getting an e/mail from some irate use,who says a lot worse than what was in the offending answer…..yahoo issues vio/deletes on the whim of two or more complainers,ads this is inconsistent with the stated intent of "free expression"……overt racist terms, graphic sex q's or a's,threats of bodily harm are self evident and don't belong there,beyond a couple referee rules,,let the controversies fly.Yahoo portends as grounds for deletion, "not answering to the question".Issues of grammar,no problemo,,,,,syntax,who cares, punctuation,nope,,,don't matter, spelling???jump back,,,,,,,polemics,,you've gotta be kidding,english rhetoric,composition.logic,are all part of language,,,there are no community standards,only whims

By: matt

matt — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:21:46 +0000

Is there a way to find how many of your answers got reported and which ones?
Please tell me. I am experiencing a ban

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:54:09 +0000

Steve -

Glad to hear you are naturally getting traffic from Answers – feel free to increase that by answering other people’s questions with your knowledge (and links)….

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:10:01 +0000

I never thought of gaming Yahoo Answers for traffic. I get about 100-200 hits a day from Yahoo Answers because others have pointed people my way due to my Pokemon/Nintendo Wii articles.