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Is there an overzealous Yahoo employee that hates atheism?

I have noticed that every so often when I go to my Saved Searches it tells me "We did not find results for Atheism." Yet if I go scroll through the categories manually I can find that there are still questions that exist.

So does that mean a disgruntled hyper-religious employee periodically alters the search code in order to prevent people from locating topics that he finds objectionable?

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  • lj1
    Lv 7
    4 years ago
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    This site is plagued with glitches. I can click on a broad category, such as Cars & Transportation, and it tells me that my search yielded no results. Other times, I will click on a question, and it says the question is under review, or doesn't exist. When I refresh the page, the question magically exists again.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Is there an overzealous Yahoo employee that hates atheism?

    - It appears to be, they obviously have it in for me. I answer yes or no to a yes or no question and they consider that a violation of the question answer process and my answer is removed.

    So does that mean a disgruntled hyper-religious employee periodically alters the search code in order to prevent people from locating topics that he finds objectionable?

    - Like many fundies on this forum, they think that they are god and can do anything that they want.

  • 4 years ago

    It means that Yahoo has very few if any real people managing their services and whenever a bug gets into the system, it can take DAYS or WEEKS before they put a actual human on it to correct it.

    Lately, I have been getting email notifications of best answer awards for questions I answered 6 to 8 months ago, sometimes a year.

    Interestingly, the ads always seem to work!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Yahoo is broken right now.

    Questions are disappearing, and then resurfacing maybe 20 minutes later. It's goofy.

    It seems Yahoo does not care much about these glitches. And maybe after the sale of Yahoo is complete, then Yahoo Answers will be shut down by the new owners. The sale will be complete by March of this year.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Probably not. It just means that yahoo is still falling apart. I get email notifications about questions from years ago, I get email notifications about "new answer to your question" then go to the question, and the " this question is under review" comes up. Yahoo is just a mess lately.

  • 4 years ago

    Well have you heard what the paranoid guy said?

    Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean some is not after me!

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    You have way too much time on your hands

  • 4 years ago

    I think it has more to do with the Yamster and his uncontrollable spasms than anything.

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