What has happened to the Senior Citizens category?

Even with some people being unhappy with the format change, the REAL problem in Seniors is the same as it's always been....questions being reported and subsequently deleted.

I don't get to respond to many questions these days, but I did answer one yesterday. It was about how and when changes were made in clothing sizes and was asked by a member who has sewed for many years. Really, when it comes to being against the guidelines or whatever, you'd hardly put this particular question in that category. Yet it was reported, like so many other innocent ones almost daily.

Strange what goes on in the minds of 'certain' people when they sit in front of a computer screen. Seems that being invisible to all, and the fact that there's this 'all powerful' report button at their fingertips, they feel validated and maybe even above others.......

NOT!!!

I think it just depends on who is on the site. I have noticed a lot of people seem to have left but then some days its very busy. This is the first place I check each time I get online but sometimes there just isn't something I feel the need to comment on. Other categories are the same. Polls & surveys is the only category that doesn't seem to be affected by whatever it is but a good lot of those questions are from kids trying to be cool and not worth bothering with..

Most of them have been reported and deleted. One of them was mine, one was a question about dress sizes, and one of them was about Phillip Seymour Hoffman. There were several others that I can't remember offhand, but a couple of them I wanted to answer. I also had two questions and a number of answers deleted this past weekend. The stalker is working overtime. We're all gun-shy.

BTW, this category used to have close to 100 questions on the board in any given day. I don't know how many it has these days, but I'm guessing less than 30 or 40. I did post a question like that about six months ago. I think it was deleted, though.

Just checked and there are 24 questions on the board. Two of them are from 6 days ago and one of them is from 5 days ago. Presumably, they should be in voting and no longer active on the board, but I guess that's the way Yahoo rolls these days.

Every time a question of mine is reported and deleted, I file an appeal, and I always use the words "malicious stalker" in the text of the appeal. I do not usually appeal if an answer of mine is deleted, because sometimes the question I answered is so stupid I can't help but answer in a snarky fashion and probably deserve the violation. I have not received a decision on my last 25+ appeals, though they always promise an answer within 24 to 48 hours.

from time to time we get do-gooders who live by the rules to a T in YA, and get joy out of feeling they did yahoo a service by violating people who ask anything other than illness questions, caregiver questions and memory questions. It's not always, those folks do take time off but then this category is hit heavy again, and it's different people doing it, and as a result it discourages those who have been in here a long time and they move on. They do disappear though and I'm thinking that YA does hear us when we ask for their assistance, but then another do-gooder comes along.

nightowl might want to know that I ask questions of people like me who have been around for a long time (the sewing question) even if it's not a questioin about illness, caregiving, elder diseases, cremation, dentures and such because that kind of stuff for seniors gets real boring. I'm trying also to fill the seniors questions section with things that I think are interesting and that I personally would like to know an answer from my peers.

For me it is the deletion of my own innocent questions and answers and that of other people. Why Angus Mc Kenzie does not simply reword reported questions to his liking is beyond me.

Then it's the stark new colour - purple on white is very stark for my eyes. I really miss how this category was when I first started on YA.

The new layout does not look welcoming or friendly either, it looks more business like.

I think they may shut down YA eventually, especially seeing as they went for the cheapest/poorest quality tender (on purpose it seems) for the producing of the new layout. They (Yahoo HQ) are shutting YA down gradually so as not to lose their users in other Yahoo pages as well.

I think several of us have taken big hits. I have been busy moving snow and being careful doing that so I am not on as much. The other and main reason is I have had a couple of Q's deleted and a number of answers. I have appealed but no answer. This causes me to be more careful.

I stopped posting questions in SC since my fun & nostalgic questions apparently annoyed the question police censors. I post in other categories now. I occasionally visit here but the questions are no longer of good humor and so specifically related to non-opinions of my generation. Alot of the questions are more likely to be resolved by direct contact with the institutions so I do not participate. I rather enjoyed our cranky, amusing, insightful, irreverently and sometimes corny humor. And I do miss that here...

I have also noticed that they have not posted many new questions because some or most of the old questions remain there for 5 days.

We don't like the new format and the fact that senior citizens , which this site if for, get reported all the time and the younger ones are taking over thinking this is about them. Our Q and A get reported by some who hate to see some of us on here and that could be other senior citizens too.

I just check in from time to time and read and go to where I enjoy myself.

They should remove the report part of this site and we would come back.

Some of the people left about a year ago and formed a private group because they got tired of being reported. I quit asking questions in here because they got reported.

I find the questions to be extremely boring now.