I asked a perfectly legitimate question on Yahoo Answers: "When you were a kid, what's the meanest thing another kid ever did to you?" I received 23 answers, and was given three stars, indicating that three people found the question interesting. I was just about to pick the best answer when the question was removed. This makes no sense to me in light of other questions that Yahoo Answers does not delete, as shown by the following examples: 1. Do you have any friends who walk funny? 2. Could God use logic so circular, even he couldn't run circles around it? 3. How would you walk if your feet were made of corn dogs? 4. When a dog sneezes, is that demons leaving its body? 5. Do you think you could seduce the pope if you had an hour alone with him? 6. Who knows how to be evil? I was looking forward to being a member of the Yahoo Community, but after having two good questions deleted, I have decided that I Yahoo answers is a waste of time. Can you blame me?
Anonymous2008-04-09T07:36:06Z
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No - I don't blame you at all. I have had two questions removed today. Nothing wrong with them whatsoever. So take heart - it is NOT you that is in the wrong. This being the open circus that it is - not all the clowns are in the ring!
But don't lets abandon the asylum to the inmates .... please, even if you feel angry now - join me in a deep breath and pray for the ignorant sons of bi....... lets just wish them happiness and joy in their pettiness!
Yours was a question that a lot of people would have liked to share memories of - and I think that is what THIS site is for - not just the YES/NO answers to problems that we all have wit to answer in a thousand different ways - but to exchange and to see exchanged our many different experiences of life.
Please stay - it gets lonely some times - and I think you would be surprised if you knew how many people enjoy answering even the most everyday questions .... its called communication.
I've had several questions deleted and received those nasty little emails from the Y/A about chatting. It's just the price you pay for using Yahoo Answers. Remember that lesson you learned in grade school ..... Life is not fair.
A word of advice, make all of your Questions and Answers private. Don't allow contacts or fans. No IM, 360 or email. Then a person who means to cause you trouble by reporting your Questions and Answers will have less access to you. Good luck and best wishes!
I have been wondering about violations and questions/answers removed etc. Your question seems innocent enough. I have asked similar questions myself i.e. an excuse to look into the past and exchange experiences with other Seniors. It would be a shame if you allow this to stop you enjoying the comradeship that we have on this site. I look forward to spending an hour or two in the evening looking at the questions and answers and occasionally contributing something myself. Like Gladys, I once made a comment about the poor grammar in a question. Why she had her answer deleted and I didn't, I don't know. This raises a question in my mind - is this only happening to people in America? Has anyone from the UK had anything deleted?
Honestly, I think of Y!A as just being a silly diversion, I don't take anything on here very seriously. My attitude about it is, if you can learn something..I mean, really learn something that you didn't know, then that's wonderful.
If it's fun, that's great and that's why I'm here. Whether that's just being silly kind of fun or interesting fun, I don't care. I just like fun.
But, a lot of it has to be ignored or it'll drive you nuts. The trolling, the thumbs down and the erroneous reporting is all just ridiculous and done by people who are children looking for action/reaction, by drunks and drug addicts who aren't in their right minds, lonely and angry people..you name it, you're going to run the gamit of society here.
How you take it all, is up to you. If you find that you've stopped having fun, that's when I leave a site. I hope you stick around but if you feel that you would be happier elsewhere, I can understand that too.
Either way, be happy and fair winds and gentle seas... Terrie
This is definately not the place to stay if you are thin-skinned. You're an adult. You should be able to work around it. But that entails having to make changes, use your creative abilities, learn new things & be willing to take a chance or two & accept failure as a part of the program. If you aren't the type of person who can let this stuff roll off your back, then you probably should go. I hope you find your niche & a bit of happiness in this big old small world.