Does Yahoo! make a good effort to cleaning up reported questions/answers that are offensive?
364876
I don't think they do a good enough job.  They delete stuff but its too late once its been on here for a month and its offended just about everyone.  They delete more of the point gaming stuff than anything and I really don't think that's bothering anyone.
1115476
they removed one of mine yesterday.  it isn't prejudice but it is censorship.  they have vulgar questions and answers yet the removed ours.   we could boycott but then what would i do at work all day?  work-lol!
936768
Would it make a difference? I got a violation notice for answering a question about Beatles albums, but you can find a million postings abour sex, violence, racism, and all sorts of offensive subjects that are OK with Yahoo! I just don't get it.
955274
Read Michaels question about violations above yours. Seems to be a lot of it going on for no reason nowadays. About time Yahoo clamped down on the ones that make the unjust reports.\n\n\n***UPDATE*** Since answering this question I have just received another violation that went as follow.\nQuestion: In which country did Mommhamed let a six year old girl get pregnant?\nAnswer: I don't know.\nViolation: Not a question or answer.\n\nHows that for a load of shoemakers. Was gonna put cobblers but thought there might be another violation on the way.
961272
It depends. If the question requires a particular kind of knowledge, I think it's okay. If I smell a certain racism, xenophobia or discrimination of that kind, I think that's wrong, and I usually report them.\n\nBTW, does it bother you so much, if the group addressed includes you? Or just when the questions are addressed to others?
948036
Probably the woman you complained about filed a violation on you. There is a lot of pettiness on this site. I can't make sense of the community guidelines. It doesn't seem to matter if the question or answer violates guidelines or not. There seems to be a knee jerk response to anyone filing a violation. It can be for anything. Six months ago a question or answer had to be blatantly offensive. Not so anymore. People just seem to look for reasons to file abuse. It is why many people have left the site. Yahoo has gone too far to one side. I feel your frustration.
847628
Sure does, your opinion is being heard.  Why else would people's questions and answers keep getting deleted? This section of y/a is becoming a mini civil rights movement. People post, others delete them because they don't like the question or answer because it doesn't agree with their thinking. It's freedom of speech trying to be strangled by a small slice of small minded people. It appears bigotry is alive and well in this section. Does deleting people's remarks really matter? Other than losing points, it won't stop me from responding to outrageous questions filled with either lies, half-truths, or completely inaccurate statements.
767698
I received an e-mail yesterday, which was apologising for errors made in the censorship. This was from Yahoo UK.\nThey are trying to do something about it. Apparently the address for complaining to when you receive a violation which you think is wrong had an error in it, so many people never received replies to their violation complaints.\nPerhaps it will be better now.
7589
they're probably little kids who think it's funny. report them. eventually, MAYBE Yahoo! will get the point and find some way to not let those questions be asked, since they are against the guidelines anyway.
327201
I don't think so, unfortunately all we dcan do is try to bite our toungues, ignore and reprot.  There's one person in here, he just asks the sickest of the sickest questions and there are just SOOOOO many of us that have reported him and reported him time and time again, but I don't know if yahoo is doing all they can or not.  These questons are so bad that it makes my stomach turn over time and time again.
873503
It's some person here who has caught the fancy of some Yahoo functionary who takes the Community Standards to heart.\n\nIf ENOUGH of us, Atheist, Christian, Muslims, etc. complain to Abuse eventually Yahoo will look into to it and see if there is a pattern of abuse.\n\nYou want to make an effort, report it to your local TV news and see if someone takes an interest and does a TV report.\n\nTake it up with 60 Minutes, 20/20 and Dateline\n\nIt's OBVIOUS that this is making Yahoo Answers slanted and biased.\n\nThe other option is for us all to start reporting EVERYONE and ANYONE who violates the rules until Yahoo has to hire 5,000 people to handle it all.\n\nIf we tie them up researching 200,000 questions they won't have time to delete things.\n\nAs far as I see, RESOLVED questions never seem to get deleted\n\nThat's another avenue.  Resolve them quickly!\n\nSo, you can REPORT Yahoo to the News MEdia\n\nWe can TIE up yahoo with 1,000,000 complaints on questions and answers to make it impossible for them to do things in a timely fashion\n\nWe can obey the rules like good little soliders under the watchful eye of Big Brother\n\nOr we can do nothing except complain, like you have!
447074
Are *** kidding **?  They ****** me all the ****!  It is Getting to the ***** that I ***** even understand my own *******!  This is ****!  Please help **!  Please!  \n\nSeriously though, I have noticed that they are getting a little bit better at censoring "bad" questions like you mentioned.  When ever I see one, I report it by clicking on the little "Abuse" thingie.  It is really upsetting to me to see some of these questions.  I suppose the only thing we can do for now, is report them.  I am with you on this one girl~  *hugs*
1081063
customer care seems more reactive than proactive about removing offensive questions.  if there's a complaint or a reported abuse, it seems they shoot first and then ask questions later.  arbitrary?  yes.\n\ngranted the use of this site has exploded recently, but i'd hope that yahoo has assigned more than just one guy sitting in a cubicle ("no.  no.  no!  what's in your wallet?")  to take care of all the duties.  what a thankless job.
530019
there is a lot of inappropriate stuff that gets posted.  just report the ones you find offensive.
322572
It seems that you can be reported for whatever reason and receive a notice. Basically if a person feels offended (for whatever reason) or just doesn't like the answer (reply) they can report it. That's just the way it is.\n\n(there are questions/replies that shouldn't be posted to begin with, but then you get into the nasty area of censorship)
546574
You! Are a Genius! As a hunter FOR Racists you use some pretty smelly bait, but you did in fact bring them out of the wood work! GREAT PIECE! We should probably save those responses and re post them when "those" people post a question or answer how open minded they are. You Did Good!
152322
The reporting function works well, that is Yahoo's monitoring.  I do think they should delete not only the questions, but suspend the member if they continue.