Can you start a class action suit against Yahoo,for theft of mind garbage?

You can sue the pope and the horse he rode in on. I think what you're asking is can you WIN a class action suit against Yahoops for conversion of intellectual property for their own use.

It clearly states in their Terms of Service that your answers are your intellectual property for Yahoo's use in any way it deems fit, *until such time either YOU or YAHOO choose not to have the content included.* When Yahoo deletes your account, you no longer have access to your stuff, yet your stuff still sits on Yahoo's servers. I have written to Yahoo and specifically asked that "I no longer choose to have the content of my deleted account included, please delete it". The lame answer I got back was "We can only delete content that is in violation of our Terms of Service. Talk about circular logic. Might as well be talking to a wall.

A case could be made that Yahoo earns advertising dollars by all the suppliers of content for Yahoo! Answers. The bigger the data base, the more advertising revenue Yahoo earns. When they convert your own property to their exclusive use and lock you out from accessing your files, I do believe they are in breach of their own silly little e-contract with you. However, unless you have a very good lawyer and can demonstrate the extreme emotional distress Yahoops has caused you (psychiatric bills, weight gain, job loss, depression, etc.), you have no real damages. That doesn't mean that Yahoo isn't a thief for stealing your stuff and deleting your account, it just means that in all probability it can get away with it. Be patient, grasshopper, their stock may yet go down the toilet.

By the way, your question in German (which I answered in German) cost me 12 points. Please give me your residence address so I can have you served with a Summons and Complaint for the extreme emotional distress this caused me. I have you down for (1) Negligent infliction of emotional distress; (2) Intentional infliction of emotional distress; (3) Negligence; (4) Negligence per se; (5) General Negligence; (6) Violation of Civil Rights (Unruh Act); (7) Violation of Americans With Disabilities Act.

(I just threw in (6) and (7) to make a federal case out of it, heh heh)

I'm not worried because almost all my bone dome detritus was stolen from you in the first place. I just plough through your old Q&A and tip random bucketfuls into Marla Singer's random question generator. Here's one I Yoinksed earlier.

The ballad of Tyler Durden……by Penfold_xp

Take my washing to the river,

To do my lonesome burden.

Mixing orange juice and gasoline,

A recipe from Tyler Durden.

Let us seek the mystery of the gnarled oak.

Offer up our babes to him,

And dance in the mad moonlight,

To the gusty halls of Sanhedrim.

Let gypsy violinists,

Whisper of better times.

Before the squad of forgotten failures,

And unexploded Germans chime.

With Frater Perdurabo we’ll take a dip,

In Yahoo’s Sulphur baths of spite.

United in our common deletions,

We will not go without a fight.

We’ll ride the glacier torrent,

To the lobster nebular aflame.

Hang urinating in our hammocks,

To the place of utmost shame.

Hey somebody hand loosechange this soap box

lights up a ciggy, puts on a spiked helmet, and takes a sip of Hindenburg (a German drink prepared from diesel oil, pureed raw potatoes, garnished with Schmaltz herring, a couple of drops of smoke flavor are added for effect, it tastes best when stirred with a panzerfaust). I dunno, Mein Herr, you are being a bit presumptious here, your statement gives garbage a bad name. I think "cold cranial diarrhea" is more like it, in your case.

Anyhow, I will back you in the suit, we will start a new axis - Poland-Germany. After we are done with Yahoo, we take care of Penfold. After we are done with him he won't be flashing that green smile of his much. Then, on to America, we will track down Stooge and make him pay.

Hey, thank you for sending me this clip from your health club, I tell you, them German chicks...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-658640307...

I've been thinking about filing a sexual harrassment suit, actually. Most everything that I get a violation for deals with sex. I think they've been keeping it for their own sick integrations.

Gross, just the imagery of some fat, bald perv jacking off to some of the things I write....

.....Wait a second.....

I'm sure it's in the fine print of the Yahoo agreement you clicked on and probably didn't read like most everyone here. That's one of the myriad reasons why I don't post poems on forums like this.

That agreement, that is.

Honestly, I think you could show damages in lost revenue, especially owning an art gallery.

If you can find just one person with class on Yahoo, I will save your garbage.

I want the great Yapoo back! I am so in on this law suit!

I'm still mad that they deleted 'Getting Plastered at the Alabaster'

Are you sure you're not Edward Norton's alter ego?