Yahoo Mad At Me For Defending Yahoo Answers, WTF
I was not going to post rant about this, but after reading Matt Mcgee’s latest post about Google giving love to Yahoo Answers (which is worth looking at) I had to say something. It is just to good not to, well I think anyway.
I have been using my Yahoo Answers account more recently, after a period of inactivity I wanted to give it a shot again and build up my account. I was doing it for pure fun (maybe a little testing) and had no marketing intentions with it (honestly).
The question was asked to the Yahoo Answers community: “Why do we waste our lives away answering questions on Yahoo Answers?” and I simply answered the question with: “Why Not?” and someone in the community flagged me, and I got the notice they took my answer down.
Well I went ahead “wasted” (no pun intended) more of my time appealing it (like it really matters, it just pissed me off that someone would do that - my ego I guess) and I will have to let you know the results. I did find out that if my appeal is accepted that they will factor in less weight to the person who flagged it, and give me an extra 10 points - and lets hope for the community sake they do re-instate my answer, because it does in fact, defend Yahoo Answers.
Wouldn’t Yahoo Answers want that? Help me figure out where I am wrong here people?
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It’s weird. It obviously doesn’t matter whether you’re defending them or not, but I think I recall reading somewhere (if not in the HELP then maybe on the YA blog) that they don’t like people answering a question with another question.
It seems really ticky-tack to me, regardless. I hope they reinstate your reply….
Hey Matt, it seems like in this case the rule needs to be broken because of the lame question - don’t ya think?
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