Your thoughts on this violation of YA?

Sorry, but the "interpretation" of those quidelines is very subjective. ANY mention of drugs and the taking of them as being acceptable might be interpreted as advocating an illegal action and therefore be reported. Remember, it is the USERS of the site that do the reporting and many of them are extremely strict in their interpretations.

As to the email, I understand that there is seldom a direct response, and that if there is, it is liable to be some variant of a "form letter" type of email. You may a bit of better luck if you report to the blue FORUM link at the top right of the Yahoo Answers page under Wrongful Violations. At least there, they are supposed to post a response (on the Forum, not directly to you) within 48 hours.

I do think that it depends on how one interprets the user codes of behavior. Any mention of drugs puts that question in the either or category.

I got a violation notice and thought it was wrongful. I email back to yahoo explaining my case. They did listen and emailed me back. Think you did have the right category.

please read the community guideline rules for Customer care of Yahoo! Answers,then you may have your answer..

it's up to Yahoo! it's their site ,the authority to warn you for any undesirable content is in all their rights ,who are we to juzz that??

you can be noticed as violation if you violated the 'community guidelines' or the 'terms of service'. You can read these here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_...

Common reasons for violation are: repeatedly posting adult content, insulting other users, spamming the site or advertising.

The best thing to do is to post in the Wrongful Violations Forum. A member of the team will be able to inform you of the reason your violation notice you can ask if you have any hope of re-reinstatement. Make sure to post your old account name (the sign in name). The forum can be found here:

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

Yahoo! Customer Service

866-562-7219

408-349-3300

The E-Mail address for Yahoo! customer care is

cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com

hope it can help you

You never know who is going to see the question, It could be a recovering addict using the site to take there minds off of drugs when they see that king of question...Just a thought..

Moderating a communicate board like this takes an excellent variety of time, and time is funds. it may take many a lot of people to examine disputes, to choose, to make judgements. Yahoo is in agency to make a income. i think of what Yahoo does is everybody who's gathered x-variety of proceedings is in basic terms dumped. on the different hand, they might't in basic terms enable people positioned up in spite of they pick. an excellent variety of people could take benefit. Anonymity makes people much extra ambitious approximately racist comments, smears, call callings, etc.etc. For a communicate board like this to truly artwork could require various volunteer moderators (a huge extensive variety). And somebody could even ought to holiday herd on the moderators, making helpful they are in straight forward terms following the policies and not exhibiting bias. it is accessible yet no longer likely. i replaced into 'suspended' some weeks in the past. They in no way advised me what for. They in no way advised me how long (yet i'm nevertheless no longer unsuspended so i'm guessing it is everlasting). My wager is that people of the different political persuasion flagged all my solutions interior the political components in basic terms because of fact they disagreed with me. it is the form of complications you have with inadequate moderation. My reaction replaced into to create yet another account and flow at it returned below a diverse call.

Here's the real problem: you may honestly not be in violation.

You have someone who applies the rules too tightly or just wants to tick you off, thus, the violation report

I believe their violation police are random and have no clue.

I got a violation notice from pointing out the questioner had very poor spelling....

Go figure

sorry, I have gotten a violation for less

They don't allow the promoting of illegal drug use.

A recovering addict may see this as a relapse trigger.

"offensive content"