Who do you blame for yahoo answers getting shutdown?
Everyone is blaming somebody, who do you blame?
Everyone is blaming somebody, who do you blame?
Andy Fish
I would like to sit here and blame all of the corporate fat-cats who run Yahoo (along with the one skinny one), but this question hit me in a rare moment of self-reflection. Is chaos at odds with order? Does blame justify culpability? I read this question and a prickling question slowly emerged in the back of my consciousness. I had to get up, pace around the house, eventually daring to look into the mirror. Just like the wild ocean waves beating desperately against the cliffs of Covehithe, I too was wailing on. Beating, crashing, and snarling in the noise, lost amongst the chaos. I too was responsible. Yahoo Answers began with the most noble cause of any website ever built, the Mother Theresa of Silicon Valley, the Ghandi of the web. A place where inquiry would find reason. Chaos meets order. Uncertainty met truth. Yet I, but one particle of water, crashed against the cliffs, joining the disarray, rejoicing in it. And here we are, the inevitable end. The erosion of the cliffs. I knew this was how it must end. But now that the end is here, I take no pleasure in it. There are cliffs and waves still to climb, and Yahoo Answers will slowly fade away into memory like the death of a dying star. And I, knowingly pushing for it. I am not blameless, even though truthfully we were always going to end here whether or not I also drank the hebonen.
But also, if I sit back and think about it again. I don't want to take responsibility for any of the blame. So in summary, I think it's those corporate fat-cats whose fault this is. And the more I think about it, the more upset I get. I'm still ok with the skinny one, he gets a pass.
entropicflesh
Yahoo Serious, the founder of yahoo.
Nathan
I blame anonymous posters.
Ottoman
Yahoo. they just couldn't turn it around. or lack of interest to do it.
Anonymous
It's probably more of a headache to moderate the disinformation. YA is much more popular with the far-right. They probably don't make that much money worth the risk and work to deal with the political section of YA.