What is the point of the appeals process, since Yahoo just upholds every violation irregardless?

I totally know what you mean. I answered a very racist and misogynistic question from a guy in the political section. I answered his question and also said "Wow. What a misogynistic and racist question". So, the jackass sends me a NASTY racist and misogynistic email. Two of them, in fact. I can't even print what he said here. Well, he then blocks me so I can't respond to him. The I reported his message to me (I would not normally do this, but if you're going to talk to me that way, you'd better let me respond instead of blocking me). Well, I ended up getting a VN on my answer for "Insulting Others". Did anything happen to his account? Hell no.

Not all appeals are turned down. About 5-10% of violations are reversed. In your case, the second about someone's avatar is clear chat and calling out another user violations. On the first, when they say that, it is "not a question according to the YA guidelines". You are asking people to read the minds of other people and you probably gave your opinion in the added details, which may have also made it a rant.

There are many types of posts that would be questions according to the dictionary, but the YA rules say no. Take for instance chat, Chat is defined in the YA Community Guidelines (link at bottom of every page). There are specific things listed that you may not think are chat, but Yahoo defines it that way and you have to live with it. You should go to the site dizzay.com and see what a YA type site looks like when chat is allowed.

Just stay away from questions that simply ask people's personal opinion or personal information. Those can sometimes be ok, but most of the time they are chat. Stick with questions that only ask for facts, figures, and data like a teacher might ask in school. You can ask for example Paris Hilton's age, but you can't ask what people thought of her dress. You can ask "What is a good SUV for a big family?", but not "What type of SUV do you drive?".

Chatting is asking questions that can only be answered with personal opinion and to which only you and the answerer will give a hoot. You can tell most of these by the presence of pronouns (I,we,you,me,us) or pronoun adjectives (your,mine,ours). If these are present your question will be chat 90% of the time and if you can not rewrite the question without them, it is chat 99% of the time.

People have different takes on violations, but I hope you will reread the community guidelines for other types of questions that are not allowed and specifically spelled out such as Fill in the Blank questions (link at the bottom of the page).

The point is to come here and have fun. You knew me as another avatar, back in the old days. I just keep creating a new account and coming back. The trolls may win the day, but they will never win the battle...

Shake it off and load up with some funny stuff! They hate it when you're having fun... the trolls, that is.

I think the point is to provide you with a fun activity, like those maze games they have on the paper placemats of crappy restaurants. Once you get to the end of the maze, you're at a picture of some cheese and a brick wall.

Or maybe it's not brick.

But that's not the point. Either way, it's an activity. The reward is that you get to appeal, not that anyone actually ever reads it.

YIPPIE!

Every question I have asked in the political /Election section has received a violation - with no hope of appeal .

Funny thing - when I use one of my accounts that does not specify who I am (FA account) I always get my VNs overturned The FA accounts never do...I think it all depends on "who you are"

yeah I had a question and an answer removed last night...

sigh

Do trolls *ever* sleep for goodness sake

The point is to give all the idiots (90% of yahoo users) the illusion of having an out. someone to appeal to.

those of us who are smart enough to understand how the system works....well, they hope that they can shut us up by constantly deleting our accounts i guess.

I wonder if the same amount of users who have faith in Y!A appeals have faith in God.

If Y!A really cared about the violations, then they would care about the ease of getting accounts as well. At least they are loose on both ends...

some Victory Notices and even suspensions can be fought but it's luck of the draw - I failed with appealing a Victory Notice so I tried again a few months later and I was successful

According to a friend at Yahoo in CA, the mods in YA are underpaid, overworked, morons.

Just sayin'.