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
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.
I agree completely. I wholeheartedly support your wish to remove Yahoo! Answers from the internet, or at the very least from search engine results.
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