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The Grand Inquisitor
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The Grand Inquisitor asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 2 decades ago

What is the communities' opinion on the following exchange I had with Yahoo Answers!?

The following is a notice I received from Yahoo. Apparently I am an outlaw. I welcome serious disscussion and community opinion about my heinous crime.

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Question: what are the nutrients in an orange?

Details of Violation: hell, look it up! why bother us?!

Reason of Violation: Not a Question or Answer :

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My response to Yahoo:

You may delete the response if you feel it is right to, however, I feel you are wasting time worrying over a nothing issue when there are other cases that are not only contrary to community rules but are filfthy and disturbing.

As an active participant of the Answers community I want my opinion heard and noted by the Yahoo team. My statement, the one I am being censured for, was a genuine attempt to make a point. It was genuine in its appeal for the poster to consider the quality of a question before asking it.

While not a violent or sexual question in nature, it was just worthless and a waste of time. I think there are many people in the Answers community who would feel the same as I do. I don't ask a lot of questions myself, but when I do, they are on serious topics looking for insights not readily aparent from web research. I sometimes waste considerable time trying to find interesting and serious questions and when I do I honor them with serious responses. And yes, I give the occasional flip response just out of boredom in between quality questions.

As a side note, I wrote the subject response before I got hip to the report abuse feature. Since then I have reported several extreme cases. Cases of clear-cut abuse that I found offensive. The answer I gave that you are harassing me over is not, in my opinion, bad or offensive. Not compared to the numerous sexual invitations I have endured and the threats of violence, etc... My answer had a legitimate point to make and I stand by it.

Please spend your valuable and limited time working real cases of abuse and leave unimportant statements like mine alone. The community is not benefited by censuring an honest participant but it is made better by filtering out the garbage.

Who ever said "there is no such thing as a stupid question" never logged on to Yahoo Answers!

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  • jumpingjello
    2 decades ago
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    I would guess, from this discourse above, that censure is not actually evaluated, just automatic. So if you see someone's tag that you don't like I guess you can click abuse and the person will dissappear.

  • rednotdead1976
    2 decades ago

    Good points well put! I do despair for the future when I see some of the questions people put on- a lot of them are obviously individuals too lazy to do some research themselves and want us to do their home/ course work for them. If someone cannot be bothered using a search engine then it doesn't bode too well for them in the real world. Plus the fact that so much dross comes up is just indictative of a world where banalities, celebrities and fashion are seen as the most important things to find out about. I am with you on this comrade!

  • Flif
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to find information on the internet. Even when using a search engine, the results it gives you can be so clogged with other junk that it's hard for someone unfamiliar with other searching methods to find the answer.

    Your response in this case does seem to be a bit offensive. A more helpful answer would have been a short description of how to find this information on one's own for future reference.

  • KC
    2 decades ago

    i think yahoo! was right. if this is to become a valuable resource for people then they have to feel like they will get a real answer when they ask a real question. obviously, most of these questions could be researched on the web but if everyone just answered "look it up" then there would be no reason to have this community at all.

  • grumpykiwi
    2 decades ago

    You are in the wrong, it was a genuine question someone wanted an answer to.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I'm with you man. Who made them the darn Question Police!

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