What's with the inconsistency and hypocrisy of Y!A?

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I have seen posts and comments on Yahoo Answers that were far worse than anything I've ever seen on, say, Craigslist ''Rants & Raves,'' yet they got published. The intolerance and vile name-calling that I've seen on Y!A have sometimes been appalling, yet they've been published, and those posters continued to post.

But when I asked a simple question of fact, I was threatened with being kicked off Y!A. Why?

There's a historic church in Boston named King's Chapel which began as an Anglican church, but became Unitarian over 200 years ago. In its worship services, it uses a prayer book that is based upon the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, but  modified to remove all trinitarian and British monarchist references. I happen to be nontrinitarian in belief, but am an active Episcopalian. I wonder(ed) if there is a church somewhat like King's Chapel (with a Unitarian or Christian metaphysical slant, coupled with a beautiful, formal liturgy) out West here. For asking that question, I was censured by Y!A. Why?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Without seeing the question, we can't tell. "Censored" can be "asterisked" - for instance, they don't let you spell "*****" ("knee-grow", a term we genealogists see ALL the time in records before 1940), or, if enough people with a good reputation report you, your post can be deleted.

I've been a UU since 1974. King's Chapel is an anomaly. I don't think there is another like it in the USA or Canada. There are UU congregations in most of the major cities in California, Oregon and Washington, but they don't have what you asked for.

> The intolerance and vile name-calling that I've seen on Y!A have sometimes been appalling,
Unless someone reports it - and I suspect at least three people have to report it - it stands.

I used too advanced a metaphor once and got my question deleted. I compared racism to a brick wall, which separated people, and said that Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the white major leagues, hadn't smashed the wall, but he'd pulled a few bricks out of it. The Y!A reviewer didn't understand my metaphor and my deletion appeal was denied. You may have written above the 6th grade level.

Anonymous · Answer

> "For asking that question, I was censured by Y!A" <

Censored how?  Did the question not post, or did some report monkey report it?  If the question didn't post, then some word or phrase in the question was picked up by Y!A's filter.  If it was deleted from reporting, then that's not exactly Y!A's fault.  You seem to be under the false impression that live Y!A people monitor this site looking for things to delete.  They don't.

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