How come BLACK PEOPLE don't answer my questions as much as they did before I added this WHITE GUY avatar?
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maybe if you had changed your avatar people didn't recognize the name and the avatar together and could be thinking someone else has stolen your id?\n\nor it could be the expression on the avatar's face... kuz to me it looks a little angry, and some folks are kinda scared to talk to angry looking people, maybe they are scared of angry looking avatars too.
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That always happens to me and it pisses me off!! LoL. but by the next time i sign in, my avatar is all good. LoL. I also HATE it when people freek out about spellin somethin wrong. i mean, i ask a reasonable question, and thye gotta answer like "learn proper grammar!!" people are ****** up!! LoL.
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You're not alone. I think we've all answered the life altering question "Is my Avatar HOT" out of boredom a time or two. I do think that the all out blitz to pile up points has gotten way out of hand. What purpose can be served with being able to say you have 10, 15, 30 & 50,000+ points other than to boost a fragile ego? Granted, some of the Q&As these people have are quite good, but they seem to have built a leagion of followers who hail them as a prophet based on their points total when in fact they pad that total with unlimited rates and votes points. The whole idea was to help, inform and have a little fun, not build an empire based on points for self-gratification, but I suppose that is the competitive nature of the beast. Getting voted as Best Answer and a few Thumbs Up, I will admitt, dose make me feel good knowing that someone appreciated what I had to say but it's not an all consuming mission. It has almost gotten to the point where Yahoo! has lost control of what started out as a good idea and I'm not sure how they can get it back.
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nope, i think my avatar shows that i am a black woman...but before then i posted on many topics that were based on many backgrounds and beliefs.
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I have just read your link and up to a point I do agree with you. \n\nIt isn't just about the black community though it is. I think it is just fashion in general. There are so many people wanting to look the part but you should never judge a person by the way they dress!\n\nAs for the posting above, we have to be careful what we say because people do get offended.  I get constantly offended when I read people telling me how wonderful God is, or I will go to hell if I don't believe etc, but they never seem to stop that do they!!\nI think all this political correctness has taken away our freedom of speech. It makes me laugh though that if you are black and you call a 'brother' the N word that is acceptable, but if I was to call someone by that name I would get told off and called racist. It is either right or wrong. There should not be rules for one culture and not for another. That is another form of segregation... them and us!!\n\nThere are nice ways and nasty ways of asking a question or placing a statement but there is always someone you will offend. There are many questions I would love to ask about the black culture and the asian cultures etc. all are totally innocent but I am scared to ask incase people don't like the way I have asked it and I get called a racist.\n\nThe whole world has gone crazy and it does annoy me!
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http://dhvrm.blogspot.com/2006/04/using-avatar-in-yahoo-answers.html
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When you come to this site, you have to come knowing that all sorts of people will come and give advice.  There are people giving answers that are not serious about their answers, some really are ignorant and unlearned, the worst are the ones who are racist and morally wrong.  When you get the answers, just disregard the bad ones and consider the good ones.  This is really what makes this site fun, at least sometimes.
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AH THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME!!  Don't apologize, keep being racist and funny.  Go to like an AIM chat room, everyone is calling one black guy a cotton picker and whatnot.  It's really great.  These people tend to be more uptight.  I don;t know what you did, but I'm guessing it was funy.
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The question that bothers me the most is "How do you like my avatar?"
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i dont think it is fair but u have to look at it from all perspectives. that black guy may have gone through some racism of his own and may be venting his anger unfairly to other white ppl. at the end of the day all forms of racism and predujice is wrong. i'm black and i dont hold a grudge against any white persons so hope my opinion counts.
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Because they can get away with it. Not all back people are racist. I have black friends and they're not. But this site is a prime example, You make a valid point and a load of brainless so called do gooders get on your case and start abusing you. And you'll notice they are all white, the black and coloured people who've answered you have mostly given you a constructive answer. The ones who haven't are the true racists because they are wrapping people in cotton wool just because they're a different colour, and not treating them as equal human beings. And the black people who have given you a stupid answer, like the ones who call you racist, are a result of living in this so called PC society. It like there are saying "hang on, you can't called a wrong doer if he's black, it's just not done"
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Yahoo is restructuring the Answers and quite a bit of stuff is screwed up.  Took a week before my photo albums got straightened up.\n\nYes, I had a voilation just today.  It was question, actually written as a question, proper spelling, no profanity, and Yahoo deleted it because they said it was not a question.\n\nYou got me on that one!
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there are quite a few on here i suppose but the vast majority of whites are not racist.  don't let the few give all of us a bad name or they have won their little game.  Personally i generally skip over racist questions, so i would think alot of people do and therefore you would never hear from us.  maybe its time to get alittle more involved.
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i really don't think it makes a difference... what i can't stand is questions  like...do you think i'm cute or do you like my avatar? also...i can't not stand those wikipedia cited answers because they are so damn long and don't really clear anything up..i would rather people answer from the heart or with their own intelligence\n\npeople who answer questions based strictly on a picture are superficial
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people on here are obviously lame and your avatar looks like it can rock hard. and i think you can only  get one violation per question or answer
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Because their avatar isn't really making a question or answering anything. They can be known by what they want; I think...as long as it's not vulgar.
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How could it be racial discrimination?  You don't have a pic up, so we can't see you, and the name doesn't indicate one race or another.  Besides, most people aren't so petty like that.  And I went to your profile, and it says you haven't asked any questions before.  Were they under a different screenname or on a different website?