YAHOO ANSWERS IS RACIST AF THEY BAN MY ACCOUNT BECAUSE I SPEAK MY MIND AND WAS ACTUALLY HUMBLING MY SELF AT TIMES ANSWERING POLITE RESPONSES TO PEOPLE WHO ASK COMMEN SENSE THEY SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER TO STUPID QUESTIONS. THERE ARE A LOT OF WHITE HILLBILLIES WHO GO AROUND ASKING ABOUT THERE SMALL $#*! DI*KS, WHY THEY HATE NIG****, HOW AMERICA IS THEIRS WHEN IT NOT THEIR AS IT THE NATIVE AMERICANS, HOW THEY HATE ASIAN, HOW THEY FETISH UNDERAGE GIRLS ETC ETC. Yahoo never been those white $#*! funky racist honkiez account but have nerves to ban mines when all i did was voice my opinion and also answer those questions that Yahoo stupid assz should had took down. They ask the dumbest craziest $#*! on Y/A and they don't do $#*! to them. If a black or Asian or other minority person ask a Question Y/A is quick to take it down and ban them but let these sick $#*! white honkiezs go around and voice they racist $#*! opinions and ask sick nasty gross stupid $#*! Questions. The double standards on Y/A is ridiculous. The problem is they don't like when people expose the truth and when you exposed the truth these white funky inbreed insecure $#*! honkiesz try to shut you down. This is America Beitch you go hear me as it supposed to be the "Land of the free" "Freedom of speech" Will let me tell Everyone that is Bull$#*! as they don't want you to be out spoken or free at all. Them white devil evil crazy people tried to shut you up and control you because they think this world is there and they can control/ eliminate anyone who doesn't "fir there agenda". NEWS FLASH BEITCH $#*! YOU WHITE DEVIL PEOPLE $#*!ING AGENDA THIS IS GOD WORLD NOT YOUR AND NOT THE DEVIL... EVERYTHING YOU DO ON EARTH YOU WILL PAY FOR ETERNITY IN THE AFTER LIFE WHEN YOU ARE CONSIDERED FORGOTTEN AND WORTHLESS BEITCH! $#*! Y/A AND DON'T EVEN BOTHER SIGNING UP AS YOU AIN'T MISSING $#*!... YOU WILL ACTUALLY BECOME DUMBER BEING ON THAT SITE FULL OF STUPID $#*! PEOPLE!
Avoid that Racist Rigged Up Site At All Cost
Yahoo Answers
This is a site where you can post a question and anyone with a Yahoo! Answers account can answer it. There are supposedly rules and guidelines set up, but the rules seem to only be applied to some questions and answers, but not others. There is no consistency whatsoever in how the rules are enforced.
This site seems to be THE place of trolls and attention seekers. Trolls are those who just want to push people's buttons. They will post questions that outright insult people, invoke violence, or invoke hate. This is supposed to be against the rules. The attentions seekers will "ask" a question only to argue with the answers that don't agree with them, do not state what they want to hear, or do not validate them in some way. This creates a ridiculous back and forth environment on the part of the attention seeking "asker." It's supposed to be: ask a question, get an answer, not a chat room. There is a no chatting rule, but maybe Yahoo! didn't notice that that was one of their rules when they put in a comment feature where any user can write a comment below each answer.
You used to be able to block the trolls and attention seekers so that you don't have to deal with their "questions" or supposed answers. But then, Yahoo! Answers added a feature where you can post as anonymous. Anonymous users can't and aren't blocked. So a troll or attention seeker can work around being blocked by posting as anonymous. Here's a sarcastic "good job Yahoo."
There are times when you click on a question that does follow the rules and seems pretty harmless and you get a "this question has been deleted or is under review" message. Sometimes the person will re-post and mention that their question got deleted so they are posting it again. When this happens it means their question was reported. Some users blatantly insult members in their answers and others respond in the comment section saying that they have reported the answer, but the answer remains. So it seems like every day is opposite day on Yahoo! Answers when it comes to the rules.
Both trolls and attention seekers are free and clear to clutter up Yahoo! Answers with their "questions" while legitimate questions and answers are removed for violating the "rules." A few months ago there used to be a feedback site, but I don't know if it's still there. If it is and you go on the feedback site you can see where people post about this and discuss this. But Yahoo! never did anything. What few changes they made seemed to benefit the trolls, attention seekers and spammers and make things worse for legitimate users.
Yahoo! Answers used to be a half-decent site for answering and asking questions. Unfortunately, many of the users have abandoned the site since the new format change back in 2014. Yahoo! Answers was known for its whole lifespan for stupid questions and answers, and the problem has been exacerbated in recent years, remaining the troll haven it always ways. These days the trolls are usually not the funny ones, but tryhardy trolls who throw a lot of provocative content in and leave out the funny. The community - depending on the section - often gets hysterical, judgmental, vicious, and otherwise toxic. Furthermore, there is a large presence of radical right users on the site, many of whom would make Fox News look like Obama. In addition, there are a large number of individuals who are very racist or otherwise hateful (especially against Muslims) Some of them are top contributors. Since 2011 or so, the moderation for the site has become abysmal, and relies on users to police the site. Racist, sexist and other bigoted content has been up for years, and often reaches the top results in popular Google searches. Reporting them usually does nothing. Some sections are now unofficial hate sites, and essentially the entire site becomes a meeting ground for hateful people after major events stereotypical of race/religion/nationality/etc. Such as riots and terrorist attacks. Since 2014 with the new format change, the site has also become highly buggy. Additionally, one slip up on Yahoo! Answers could cost you your entire Yahoo! Account, and they won't tell you why.
However, Yahoo! Answers isn't all bad. There are some sections that still provide good help to people who ask, such as the Mathematics and Physics, as well as the Video & Online Games and Computers & Internet sections. Do keep in mind that there may be occasional troll spillover.
Avoid the Current Events, Religion & Spirituality, Other - Cultures & Groups, Other - Society & Culture and Politics sections at all costs. These sections are full of hate mongers. Another section to avoid is Gender Studies, which is full of antifeminists. The LGBT section is full of trolls and often receives spillover from homophobes, too. The list of sections to avoid I provided is not exhaustive.
The Polls & Surveys section is largely used by teens and underage users (i. E. preteens) who want to rant, with some wingnut spillover, so don't expect any good questions and answers from that section unless you want to have some fun. A lot of the countries on the Travel section (for example, China) are full of negativity that often cross the line into racism.
At this point, I would not recommend Yahoo! Answers as a source of information, as you can find better information on other sites. If you want to use Yahoo! Answers, you should avoid all topics that people are emotional over, only using it for hard, emotionless facts. If you do ask an emotional question, do not expect a lot of intelligent answers. You are better off using sites like Quora for better answers.
In the past I have asked a few questions. I stopped once I asked one about if there is an application or method to "wake up" the power off state of monitors (power saving) when you sit down in front of the computer (ie, by detecting movement via camera or something). It sounded like a good concept, and then after one answer that had nothing to do with anything (someone posted something like "very interesting thoughts"), the question was then removed and missing when I came back to it to see if anyone else said anything. My other few questions were indeed answered before that though.
I felt it was odd it was deleted but didn't want to waste the effort of typing out detailed questions like that again with the risk of it just being removed. So I figured to pass time I'd at least answer a few others since a few of mine were indeed answered with solid answers.
Sorting through the questions that weren't posted in good faith to find properly asked questions, I only had the chance to answer about 5. These were simple questions like how to access certain features in an application (i. E., how to access a settings menu in a graphic application), or how to accomplish something in Windows. My answers were short and to the point. Another question I remember was where someone could find something online (product), and I searched for a few things and replied.
Then all of a sudden I get an email from Yahoo that my account was suspended (a true email, not one of those fake/mimic'd emails). I replied back patiently asking if there was something I have done as I assure them I haven't broken any rules or stepped on anyone toes. They answered the next day with a swift text-book answer without obviously researching the few answers/questions I have ever made, saying:
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You have posted content in violation of our Community Guidelines or Yahoo! Terms of Service. As a result, your account has been suspended from Yahoo! Answers, and you will no longer be able to access this service. Community Guidelines exist to keep Yahoo! Answers a safe and useful community.
While your access to other Yahoo! Services is not affected, if your account is flagged again for a Yahoo! Terms of Service violation, your account may be terminated without further notice.
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I tried to give it some thought and couldn't come up with a reason as I have never posted anything rude, vulgar, sarcastic, off-the-topic, spam or any form of adult-graded topics or material. I figure obviously someone must have flagged me in error or someone was abusing their flagging system. I responded with such and they had no reply. Instead they make me feel like some kind of unwanted criminal.
So at this point I have even decided to expire my usage of all Yahoo! Services as that was concerning. I have been using Yahoo since the late 90's it was nothing but a search engine. Now I fear if I spend the effort to do anything anywhere else on Yahoo they will just simply delete me there as well without even asking questions.
Meanwhile, they have people posting questions that make no sense, questions that blatantly talk about private parts for kicks, answers they don't make sense, people posting rude comments about other people's answers and so much more... and that's ok. But when I respond to a tech question with a simple to understand and straight to the point answer or help someone track done a product they are having trouble finding... I'm removed from the picture without any question, research or jury.
After a decade and a half of using their services, I firmly stand on my decision to no longer use Yahoo.