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Jim2
Lv 7
Jim2 asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 2 days ago

What do you think of this comment from CNN, concerning Yahoo answer's shutdown?

"Like many corners of the internet, Yahoo Answers has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and outlandish questions that dragged down Yahoo's brand as it tries to move upscale. For example, one of the top questions on the website Tuesday morning asks "Is Yahoo Answers being shut down because conservatives have exposed the Socialist takeover of America?"

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  • 9 hours ago

    LOL Sounds like CNN!  

    The reason Y!A has gotten so full of trolls and craziness is that Yahoo doesn't bother to monitor it properly.  Nevertheless, I would rather put up with the craziness than have one more free speech forum shut down.  

  • Anonymous
    11 hours ago

    LIES CNN ALWAYS LIES!!!!! It's my fault and I proudly take responsibility. See image for my latest trophy.

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  • 17 hours ago

    I'm afraid that is a good deal of it. I am sure that it has been dragging down the Yahoo brand and I would guess any profitability disappeared a long time ago--if it ever existed. 

  • Anonymous
    17 hours ago

    I don't think CNN is anywhere near enough in touch w/ the history of YA. I am as a user for 15 yrs. I think YA is shutting down f/ how it developed to an 'unsupervised recess on the playground' where people lost respect and decency. They persistently breached TOS. Many people didn't do their duty to report violations. The self-regulated forum experiment failed because of this. YA won't hitch to this image.

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  • 21 hours ago

    Sounds accurate. 

  • Anonymous
    23 hours ago

    Spot on!!!!   LOLOLOL 

  • KTJoe
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    Like the old grease man radio show,  CNN is "Shock value" based.

  • 2 days ago

    A major cause of the shut down is so Yahoo's CEO doesn't have to keep appearing before Congressional committees and explain why they have so much Russian inspired nonsense on here.

  • 2 days ago

    I think they're ignoring the fact that it was deliberately poorly moderated.

  • helene
    Lv 7
    2 days ago

    What a bunch of baloney. This site was taken over by fetishists, perverts, autistic spamming trolls, paranoid schizophrenics, and anti-semites YEARS ago. For some reason, Yahoo didn't think THAT was "dragging down their brand."

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