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Are you a Y!A police "informant"?

It seems that everyone has had a question, or answer, that they believe was deleted unfairly and without any rational reason. Most people blame Y!A for being unfair (and creating an online communist regime), and I find it hard to argue with that logic.

However, isn't everyone that has ever reported a question the real Y!A police? Almost everyone has reported something at some point, and of course it was completely justified in our (deluded) minds.

I doubt that Y!A even actually checks half the stuff they are deleting... because we all know from experience that they don't check their email or message boards for any appeals, and when they do it is always a copy and paste answer that is too general to derive anything that is actually helpful in any way (probably a link to the nine broad paragraphs that declare what is "BAD").

So along with blaming the Y!A police, should we just be mad at everyone, including ourselves, and then sign up to go to Iraq for a year as punishment?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    NO most definitely not.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, because I've only ever reported two people: one for being VERY racist and one for rambling on about NOTHING. I can't say I'm in the same boat as everyone else, and if I do find myself in that same boat, I'm jumping out as fast as I can and swimming to the next deserted island in sight.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well said.You are right, but some reporting is neccessary

  • 1 decade ago

    ah, yea, sure...we should all risk our lives for reporting others from time to time on Y!A...

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  • 1 decade ago

    no...anyways have better things to do than report people and make enemies...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Would I tell you if I was?

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