OpenWeb

These are the worst that exist where they manage many news pages and do not allow free expression and for any reason without having a basis and foundation because they block you but the worst thing they do is that they sell the users' information, they are a scam so no I recommend that no one comment or give their email or data on pages that they manage

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They claim to want to keep a certain kind of online environment, but will censor anyone for pointing out common knowledge facts that their so-called moderators, who are just bots looking for key words and or phases to censor. It's a joke of a service there are better ones out there.

Don't be fooled by the Orwellian name of this company and their bogus, sanctimonious mission statement. Their fundamental fuction is to strategically censor a certain political perspective under the pretext of "creating a safe place." Always remember, "content moderation" is Silicon Valley's euphemism for censorhip. And censorship, not only infringes on the speaker or author, but also on society's access to open dialogue and debate - the activities ClosedWeb pretends to value.

It is amazing to watch as they openly promote online toxicity at the expense of calling it out. I've reviewed both reports I've made success rate vs. deleted of mine comments, and their line is definitely pro racist, pro bigot. You will struggle to get the Ai to even recognize obvious racism. But, the more appalling aspect is the "personal attacks" moderation. If you're a certain political belief type, you can fling whatever insult you want, openly, but if you say "that's idiotic", which is targeted at an idea, not a person, immediate deletion. I went through a few of their clients web comment sections, and it's a pretty universal bias, with Yahoo being the worst. I haven't been able to find if they are in charge of MSN, the only board I've discovered as more toxic than Yahoo.

I wrote an accurate comment and emailed them links to back it up about fentanyl being revenge for the opium wars but of course it was censored for being about China and it might hurt their market with them. My question is if I am able to post 6 articles proving this, what basis did ban this comment. Are their reviewer qualified to do their job because they clearly did not do due diligence. I also have quite a few degrees including degrees in the disputed area. Their reviewers are clearly not up to the task. Companies should run from them and not use them.

One of the absolute worst commenting packages out there. "Moderation" is virtually non-existent in any useful way:; right-wing/Russian trolls are given carte blanche to say any despicable thing they want and bury any meaningful discussion; shadow-banning is a favorite tool, even down to shadow-banning individual comments - apparently the "moderators" are either too stupid or too indifferent to realize there are ways to tell if they're doing it to you; racist troll-trash can post 24/7 for months or years without being banned, but a "naughty word" on the wrong site - or even contradicting one of the trolls - can get you banned on some websites. Or permanently shadow-banned with absolutely no notice or warning.

"Christian Zionists need to stop" was censored! Why? Just one example out of so many where comments on favoring Israel are allowed but it doesn't allow mention of Zionists. Why are we allowing an Israeli founded company control our conversations?

Today this comment was rejected.
Lmao... polls are not valid at all any more. Will not even come close to getting enough votes. Lets make sure openweb doesnt censor my post... rainbows, bunnies, puppies, so cute. Lol
They truely have no guidelines other then whomever reads it may not like it rejects it. I encourage anyone to see for yourself. Openweb is just not a good thing. Nice that someone not even in america can control what is shared. Class action lawsuit perhaps...

Why do sites use OpenWeb for comment sections? It often suffers from login issues, reply incapabilities, and performance issues on mobile web. There is no reliable way of viewing your own posts or activity. It often glitches if video is posted on the same commenting page.

Can anyone find anything objectionable to the post I was trying to make in Yahoo's financial group? I was posting only facts, nothing subjective. Some people are being mislead by others with disinformation and OpenWeb is blocking me for some reason.
The first pic is just prior to posting, 2nd is seconds later, 3rd is email notification I received.
Yahoo needs to find another moderator.

I have had the same atrocious experience as the other negative reviews here. But, notice something else: the distribution of the ratings here. They're nearly all 1s with a tiny number of 5s, and nothing in-between. The 5 star reviews sound like they were written by an OpenWeb ad department, not an actual person. So, rather than actually improving their moderation, OpenWeb spends it's resources trying to artificially boost it's reputation with transparently fake reviews at this, and certainly other, reviewer websites.

Adolf and Stalin are green with envy over the level of censorship OpenWeb practices. Shadow-banning, poor coding (reviews just spinning for hours but never post) and a list of "discussion standards" that Jesus Christ couldn't even meet. Avoid ALL websites using OpenWeb and make sure to tell them why.

The service lacks methods for posters to challenge why a post is against community standards. It is far harder to actually ask meaningful questions on a topic than to insult other users. They seem to rely on automated dictionaries which are lacking the subtleties of the way the language is used in the USA. Simply does some automated review of the post and if it rejects gives no feedback on what the violation was. This makes it worse than useful as a tool because it do nothing but aggravate the people using it.

This has been really "fun" to deal with on Yahoo News, apparently a dollar amount is "all caps" and thus is not allowed.

Good work, Orwell would be proud, except the execution is very poor.

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OpenWeb provide automated comment moderation for Yahoo! Since they were added every single comment I've made has been automatically rejected supposedly because they "violate community guidelines" regardless of the comment. I've literally said "Hello everyone, hope you all are having a great day!" and it's been rejected. I never use foul language and I love everyone, but I am politically moderate and independent so I suspect that OpenWeb is being used to "weed out" moderates and conservatives. I've used Yahoo for nearly 20 years and all of a sudden the comment community goes from center right to far left since OpenWeb takes over the comments? Not possible. What IS happening is anyone who points out the errors (and often out-right lies) in Yahoo's "news" is being silenced to give the appearance that most people are far Left. Their "appeals" process is just more smoke and mirrors as I've asked politely a dozen times for someone to actually LOOK at the comments being rejected and for the past year I've never gotten a reply or even a notice saying I've been banned or barred from commenting. It's disgusting that Yahoo has sunk this low. Hard to believe they were ever the Internet's number one website.

Have fun replying to someone who responds to your comments, or going back and reading your own comments, or checking to see people's reactions to them. Because why would you want to do any of those things in an online forum/comment section. The comment moderation patterns are absurd to the point of near randomization. Troll accounts and sock puppet operations are just as rampant as they were before Yahoo made the switch. Openweb is an awful platform.