Posted on 02/06/2010 6:17:36 PM PST by ImperialistDaddy
To: All search engines
We the undersigned are asking that all search engines remove all links to Yahoo Answers. We are also asking that Yahoo remove Yahoo Answers completely from the Internet. Yahoo Answers was intended to be a place for people to be able to ask informed questions and get informed answers. However, it has become that questions are not informed, and neither are answers.
The need to remove Yahoo Answers is to keep it from turning up in the search results. Most questions and answers posted on Yahoo Answers are inflammatory and there is a lot of abusive intent from those who post both questions and answers.
Yahoo Answers is far from a scholarly investigation into valid questions, and has become a magnet for Internet trolls. Yahoo realized that because of abuse they had to eliminate chat, as did MSN. Now, it is time for Yahoo Answers to removed the Internet. Yahoo Answers is not family-safe, and many children have access to explicit content. This must end.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
I try to help people with their math there. I don’t cruise around the rest of it and I feel like I am helping some kids.
That is good of you, and I used to do a lot of homework help answers to. After all, I am an Honor student in college, but I see all the sexual filth and can’t help but think that someday when my kids are old enough to use the computer I don’t want them going there. If properly moderated, Yahoo Answers could remove certain offensive content.
Here’s an easier solution:
Edit your Hosts file.
Read up here on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
Then set “answers.yahoo.com” to 127.0.0.1, and you’ll never see Yahoo Answers again on that computer . . . .
Don’t blame the venue for crappy participants.
I think you have the right idea there. Let yahoo know that they need to better moderate their site. A lot of good can come from places like this, but if not watched, a lot of bad can come as well.
If its low IQ and filth that bothers you, may as well start a petition to remove the Internet from the Internet.
What you say about Yahoo Answers could just as easily be said about the internet at large. There’s a lot of stuff out there: some of it’s good, some of it’s bad, and some of it’s eally bad, but it’s up to each of us to sort it out for ourselves. It’s freedom. I don’t support trying to ban or control what you don’t like.
Excellent! That will help a lot.
eally=really
Yes, that is very true. The Federal Trade Commission has been asked by many people to regulate the Internet, but as usual they (as an institution of government that taxes us through the rough) have said they do not have the financial resources to do so.
Thank God.
Yes, that would be a good outcome.
Or at least improve the moderation for the site.
It’s so easy to post and answer questions on that site that its a magnet for lunatics and trolls. It’s convenience is also its curse.
>>The Federal Trade Commission has been asked by many people to regulate the Internet, but as usual they (as an institution of government that taxes us through the rough) have said they do not have the financial resources to do so.<<
Even when our government isn’t inclined to do the right thing, sometimes sheer ineptitude prevents it from doing the wrong thing. There’s a nice balance in that, I think.
Ever catch all the horrid comments on YouTube?!?! Why not that?
Really, all these sites need to tyrannically moderate/edit their “open discussions”.
It's quite simple to exclude any site from a search.
Try the searches(in yahoo or google) below.
sparrow unladen weight
and then this one:
sparrow unladen weight -site:answers.yahoo.com
Wow, what a concept, eh?
YouTube is the worst, besides newsgroups.
Yes, there comes a point when people who try to reverse this turning good to evil and evil to good will be attacked as tyrants, but we should do what we must.
I know how you feel. I have been attacked for verbally attacking smut, even though I have no power to take their smut away from them. heh.
How do we tell the folks with good intentions such as yourself, from those who claim to be after smut and then use whatever authority they gain to shut this place down?
Concerning Youtube comments:
There’s an arrow at the top of the comments, click that arrow and the comments are hidden.
There are options there as well to block words and limit the comments via their value.
It may even set a cookie so that the comments and options are
made semi-permanent.
I think government has every right to take pictures of a child being raped off the internet and prosecuting those involved. Its one of the few things they should actually do online, besides trying to stop foreign spies and hackers.
The government wants to regulate the internet via "The Fairness Doctrine."
Be careful what you wish for!
I think that way they'll still come up on the search engines. The link will just be broken.
Ah, yes the Fairness Doctrine and net neutrality, the wolf that appears to a lamb. However, the way the FCC currently operates works for keeping obscenity off the air.
If you eliminate Yahoo Answers, the same people will find their way to another anwers place and it will start showing up in your searches.
Isn’t this the reason Google Answes was closed?
I have helped people with health issues & answered questions for people who were desperate for answers, so there is good there too, just like any forum on the internet!
Yeah, greatly suspect that a lot of high school kids and younger college students love to spew out one-liners on Yahoo Answers.
I guess where I am coming from is very much put out of place. I am 37. I love using the Internet to interact, and try to get some good links, but I find myself growing depressed and agonized by the sheer stupidity that finds its way to tactfully insert itself in my way.
If you look at those that signed on my petition all I got was one troll who posted as “Pukes Onyou” and a few of my friends. Taking my battle elsewhere...
But the point is, we LIKE discussions, but so many are allowed to post - and leave up - scummy low-class comments.
Meanwhile, kids are looking at these sites. Never mind those of us who really don’t like such language.
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