Violations, removed postings.....?

Question

We have just put a suggestion onto the Forum about the amount of violations people on the Seniors section are getting. It's not right that perfectly good questions or simply a bit of fun gets thumbs down and taken off of the board completely. Has anyone else vented their spleen on the Forum about this?

Answer 1

With all due respect to Katetrin, I have to say, that:-



1) Some questions only need a few words for the answer, by virtue of the very fact and nature of the question asked, and it may not require a long ramble.



2) What I see posted in "Other Cultures and Groups" is pretty darn disgusting and they get away with it. Why?



3) Seniors are very well behaved incomparison to these other groups.



4) Open forums are, open forums, and I do think people are entitled to answer the way they like. For instance if someone asks "Have you ever flown in a Airforce Jet?". My answer would be, "no, but it would be an exciting experience". What more can I say? Yes there are some people who just anser with a 'huh'. Perhaps they just don't undersatnd the question, and should learn to express that.



5) What you are suggesting, by implication, is that we now bring in rules of "what" questions we will be allowed to answer, and and "what questions, we can't answer".



6) If I am on a blog site, and I have to be scared about answering some questions, because they are not long rambles of information, then I may as well go to another site.



7) Having some fun and entertainment on the site is one of the joys of being here. As well as learning things.



8) This is not a University or a classroom. It is and should be, a place where people are at liberty to say what they want, ask what they want, as long as there is no abuse being thrown at other members, no swear words, and no base disgusting questions and answers. Like on some other site, again, I say, and they get away with it. Can you tell me why?

Answer 2

I just sent my 3rd request yesterday to reconsider a violation I'd received for a question I asked, that did follow the guidelines. All I have gotten so far is the standard automated response. I haven't written anything on the forum yet. If we knew how/where to say something that would actually make a difference, most of us would do it. I wish we had a place with the same format-I'm not interested in a chat room, thanks anyway-that we could use and not always be getting violations for every little thing we do.

Answer 3

i haven't had any for some week yet I had a very undesirable spate of them. i got here across a splash who further himself once I first joined who had no longer asked or spoke back any questions. I deleted him and the VN's disappeared. The final VN I had develop into for soliciting! LMAO! I even had one for posting a link to YouTube, in case you ever! touch timber i haven't had any VN's from soccer or words and Wordsplay ~ they have continually come from Polls and Surveys. i understand one among my contacts, who's an Aussie and spends particularly some time interior the Cricket area has had particularly some abusive solutions from an Indian. He has been calling her each and every form and that kind of behaviour is thoroughly uncalled for and out of order!

Answer 4

I get at least one violation per day, I get at least 2 thumbs down on all my answers regardless of the question. I got one violation because I said, wait for it ....'.no' , when I complained to yahoo, they refused to go into individual cases. I doubt that you can do anything about it, the loony faction of the human race just trawls the sites and puts on a complaint knowing the answerer will get a violation, why? because they can ! ! yahoo does not check the complaint they just issue the violation.

Answer 5

A year or two back i got 9 violations in one day...Id dare to say that it was one persons doing, I wrote and wrote to yapoo, and only got the auto replies, with promises of ''getting back to me''....it never happend , so i gave up, now when i get violations notices i just ignore them cos, its a waste of time to get anywhere with Yahoo, as i have come to realise over the years, for wwhatever the reason,.

Answer 6

Yeah, it amazes me too. I got a violation for asking: 'How do you convert feet into square feet' or something similar. Just can't understand the logic of these people, or the administrator's at Y/a! There are some very undemocratic people on these sites!

Answer 7

I vented for the sake of Eyes a week or two back all to no avail. I couldn't tell if email the higher powers and posting in forum made a bit of difference.

Answer 8

I have not seen the questions but if they were good questions then what the heck is happening. We all like a bit of clean fun as long as nobody gets hurt.......



It only takes 2 nits to report you and then its off,sadly there are quite a few nits out there.....so good luck.

Answer 9

Boo Hiss. Can't they think of something better to do then violate everyones questions.

Answer 10

I don't think some people read the guidelines. Really, you should read them and it answers many questions on violations. For instance, you cannot answer a question with, "I don't know" or "thanks for the 2 points". You have to give a reasonable, helpful answer. You cannot chit chat with others, go to a chat room or do it privately on your own email. Don't just give one word answers. Don't give just other sites to go for answers. If I ask a question, I want an answer, not a site to go to. I can do that myself.



The above are some of the rules that people seem to overlook. You are not going to help anyone else or gain points if you are not actually answering a question. It is the same thing with asking questions. Some people post the same question over and over. Some avatars are actually borderline porn pictures. Some are insulting as are the questions. Some questions are so grammatically incorrect it is impossible to read them, that is a violation.



I have had violations also so I started reading the guidelines much closer. This is like anything else, we might not like or agree with all the rules, but what would happen without them? Decent people would not visit here.

Answer 11

I respond to every violation. and then e mail the Answers Group, I have gotten some replies, and saved their address's.

when my wife had her account deleted, she contacted YA staff, and got it back, complete with here E mail account.

Answer 12

Vented & bled my spleen way too many times to no avail.

Time to get in touch with the main line.

Answer 13

I think the people that are reporting the answers are the problem. Hopefully, Yahoo does some investigating and suspends them! Stop these senseless violations, please!!!