Why was Donald Shaw suspended from Yahoo Answers?
595321
didnt know he was-i almost never agreed with him but cant see where he was offensive-that one doesnt make sense-lots of love old hippie
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Some of my comments on the scenario are posted on the comments board below:\n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/y_answrs_team?p=1652#comments\n\nNotice your link only gives Pointsreaper's side of the story, however I still haven't seen any SOLID evidence as to why he should be suspended from the site. And until I get a thorough, direct, and detailed answer (more than just 1 or 2 examples) I am with Pointsreaper (aka USA-1) on this one.\n\nEveryone here's a points reaper, whether they want to admit it or not. Just because Pointsreaper was better at it than the rest doesn't give them any right to remove him from the site.\n\nI still want more details Yahoo! Thank you.
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I didnt hear about it. tell! tell!I was wondering if people ever got into trouble on here.  Do you get Suspended for long?
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.
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Someone was asking about White supremicists and I replied "enough already about the White Supremacy" and got a violation.\nIt's Q&A so much for your opinion, apparently it was because i didnt answer the question. Who cares, it was my opinion. And halft the answers to questions on here dodge the question itself..\nIt's Bullshit sometimes
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Actually the Majority of his posts are Off Topic Spam, I report them as such, others are Personal Communication and Chatting, which I also report. Many others are rhetorical questions, If they aren't meant to be answered it's "not a question or answer" and if they lead to judgmental decisions it falls under Harassment.\n9 out of 10 of his posts are reportable. \nI do so simply because I find his questions only vaguely understandable, unwelcome proselytizing, as well as Judgmental harassment.
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Oh yes!  Because Donald Shaw is the gatekeeper of all truth and can smite anyone who disagrees with him!  He has been chosen by God as the sole human to spread the Word!!\n\nRIGHT!!
900592
Well it says "Suspended" not "banned" so its not permanent, maybe some of your friends made multiple accounts and raised your warning level alot, or maybe they hacked your account =/
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The only time I had a violation is when I answered someones question who wrote so poorly that I couldn't exactly understand what he was asking; so I asked if he could clarify.  My answer was removed.  A day or two later, his question was gone, also.\n\nI have to agree with the first answerer.  [It seems] that once a few bad "marks" are given to a question, it's gone.  I've heard complaints for people before who either ask very interesting questions, or give very intelligent answers, and receive a violation notice later that day.\n\nIn fact, there is a person on the Yahoo! Answers Help Forum who has this repeatedly happen to her.  So she posted all of her well-though out answers in a thread until Yahoo! gave all of her points back.  Yet these stupid/insulting question are still on here, as well as the hate-filled answers that fill them.  I have NO idea how this site is being run, but it's being run poorly.\n\nTo correct this, Yahoo! should transfer monitoring of Answers back to the Answers Dept, instead of Customer Care.  CC is trained to help you when your email is not working, or your auctioned item has disappeared; they are obviously not trained to run an extremely large interactive site like Answers.  The answers Dept was better at this, and the mistaken deleted questions/answers were few and far between.
770374
He may have been banned for that.. i dont think it is in the "legal" book for yahoo..
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Yes, my account was temporarily suspended because of some people who could not refute my answers with truth, so they attempted to silence me by claiming abuse. I contacted Yahoo Corporate Offices, my account was re-instated and now they are more careful about frivilous complaints of abuse. A forum such as this has a responsibility to encourage free speech.
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What has don's website got to do with this question.
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YAHOO SEEMS TO BE DELETING THE ACCOUNTS OF THOSE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND LIBERAL VIEWS. WHY HASN'T JIM W BEEN DELETED THAT GUY SAYS SOME PRETTY CRAZY STUFF YET HE IS A STAUNCH DEMOCRAT. BUT IF YOU AS MUSH AS OPPOSE A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRATIC VIEW YOU GET A VIOLATION NOTICE. THEN YOU GET DELETED. IT IS BECOMING A JOKE. THE POLITICAL FORUM IS ONE SIDED.
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The Yahoo! Answers Team cares very much about these things. They have worked very hard on making this site the very best that it can be.\n\nUnfortunately, there is always someone to spoil the party. Over-all this IS a fantastic site. With that said, yes, we all know that it does have its problems, and you have certainly identified one of the biggest ones.\n\nThe Yahoo! Answers Team is currently working on solving this problem. As some else in this thread already mentioned, abusers often open a new account as soon as they are suspended and continue the violating behavior.\n\nThe best that we can do at the moment is use the "Report Abuse" button whenever you see this violation, or any other of the Community Guidelines. This is a way that e can all assist the Y!AT in combating this problem.\n\nThere have also been discussions going on in the Forum (link at the top of every page), about the use of "Volunteer User Moderators".  They are currently trying to work out a way to insure that it will work out properly.\n\nPlease, rest assured, that the Y!AT DOES care very much!
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He is just one of many 'trolls' I think that  is the term the Yamsters team uses for those who post "bad content" on purpose.\nOf all the tasteless poor questions that merit reporting at least 95% are by those who have disposable accounts and are trying to get to zero before they get banned.  they should not allow you to ask any questions if you fall below 90 points till you have 150\nthat way at least they would be less prolific in their spittle.\n\nI do not mind any answer that contains some sass and grit but only if it refrains from pointless name calling and insults.\n\nInsulting the readers of your questions isn't just a violation of the TOS it exposes the delinquent brat for what he or she is.  Just a fool who is all to eager to give out more cents than he can afford to spend.\nThat's not a typo , it is a hidden reference to people giving their two cents worth.  SHIRAZ and all the other pity mouth dopes can have their 2 cents back with interest and dis-interest.
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Anyone else notice that the "asker" of this question was suspended?\n\nUse your heads people before asking a question like that!
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I couldn't agree with you more.  I mean, have you seen some of the screen names Yahoo allows the members to have?  That alone is enough to ban my kids from this and I haven't even started on some of the questions that get posted.  And who cares about being able to report something as abuse.  In a matter of seconds, inappropriate questions have already had their effect on kids probably on the site just looking for homework help.  Horrible.  Yahoo needs to install a language monitor so if a question has certain words, it is reviewed before it is posted.