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Does Yahoo Answers discriminate against people whose answers/questions they don't like?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsTUW...

Check above question. If you provide an answer to the above question, you can get reported for spamming. When I have given people answers with websites that I am not remotely connected with nor make any money for, I get "reprimaned" by Yahoo with my answer deleted. Yet they continue to allow this question (as posted above)? I gave the same answer to that question and they reprimaned me and deleted my answer. Since I am a liberal/progressive and a feminist I wonder if that may have something to do with it? Any one else experiencing this? (Also they gave me 0 points for my last best answer. Another punishment?)

Update:

Answer Man: You just haven't got "caught" by the whatever immature yahoo answers person deleted my answer to that as well as the times I gave websites and accused me of spanning when it was perfectly obvious I was answering the question and giving a website to support the answer.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    yes, you are absolutely right. but those deleted questions just disappear, so there is no way of proving them.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is NOT Yahoo -- it is the actual people/users that are here on Yahoo! Answers. THEY report abuse and if enough of them do it, there is an automatic violation filed, so please don't blame Yahoo. And the zero points for Best Answer would probably happen because you simultaneously lost a total of 10 points one way or another, either by asking 2 questions, or having a violation -- sorry!

    If you feel you have been improperly "violated", post your concerns to this forum:

    http://messages.answers.yahoo.com/answers/threadvi...

    where they are attempting to post a response within 24 hours and to send such things for reconsideration. Points HAVE been returned, as reported on here:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq0Sx...

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. It appears there is an elite group doing this.When a questions or answers are deleted without a valid reason. There is no rational reasoning in determining to delete.Some of them have the mind of a child.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have no clue why your answer would be deleted. This person is asking specifically for a website - nothing unusual at all on Yahoo Answers. I have answers hundreds of questions like this and have never been reprimanded nor have had my answer removed or anything like that.

    I guess it depends on if you are actually answering the question or not...

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  • 1 decade ago

    yes, a question of mine was deleted like "abuse report" Beleive me I,m not concerning with durty things, maybe sometimes my english isn,t perfect. If the americans and brittish forgive us with so mutch patient, Yahoo can does it too

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes they do,

    It's that yahoo honey monster again he's a s**t at doing that it ain't fair it is discrimination against fair questions,and answers.

    May be we should report them to the racism board Ho Ho!!!!!!!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    I guess I dont know send a message to them.

  • 1 decade ago

    yep, they need to back off

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