I’ve been having fun with Yahoo! Answers over the past week. For the uninitiated, Yahoo! Answers enables Yahoo! users to pose questions to the Yahoo! community and answer questions posted by others.
It is mildly effective to post questions - I got a decent response for my question about blog ads. However, some questions are too specific to get any answers and a lot of answers are off topic, or completely useless.
I have more fun answering other people’s questions. This fits my personality, because I’m a cocky know-it-all that likes to tell other people what I think and why I am right. I also like going to the ‘relationships’ section to help teenage girls to slut it up prepare for college.
But a few answers I gave have been erased for violating Yahoo!’s terms of use. One I understand, because I called the question asker a ’stuck up bitch’ (she was).
But the other was for a benign question, “I want to download free full games how ??”
Although the question asker writes like a nappy-haired radio DJ, I decided to answer this question because it was easy. “bittorrent.” That’s all I said.
But, I get this e-mail (below) from Yahoo! saying I am in violation of their “community guidelines” and “terms of use.”
For one, the question asker wasn’t saying he wanted to illegally steal games - for all we know he could have been talking about free full games that have an open license.
Secondly, Yahoo! is lame to police answers this strictly. I’m not giving blueprints for a reactor, all I said was “bittorrent” - an answer that this kid could have gotten anywhere else on the Internet.
Anyway, this was lame. Yahoo! is lame.
