I am back on Yahoo! Answers
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:58 pm
Yahoo! Answers is a place to post questions where other readers of Answers can reply with their answer. Anyone can read the questions and the replies. There's enough excitement and drama in some questions to fuel three soap operas.
The questions run the gamut from very technical to extremely personal. They can be all over the place from "what's wrong with this C program I wrote" to "I'm a virgin, I met a girl who will let me have sex with her, what do I do", and anything in between, organized into various categories.
Three years ago I got suspended from Yahoo! Answers for getting two TOS violations, but they wouldn't tell me what it was that I got banned over. I could no longer answer questions (or ask them, but that wasn't really that important).
Ben, bless his soul, looked at my item and made a guess, which I think was correct. I screwed up when I marked up an answer to get around the censoring filter, and someone ratted me out.
I was a Level 6 Answerer, I had hundreds of answers and over 6,000 points. Basically all gone.
The suggestion from someone at Answers was to start over with a new account.
You get two points for each answer and 10 extra points if it's voted a best answer, so you can imagine it took weeks to get there. Despite my account being suspended I'm still getting notices in e-mail three years later that some of my answers were voted a best answer.
So I checked one and tried to go to my account, only it says I'm suspended, possibly for violating "community guidelines" and I should go to a page if I thought it was in error.
The Community Guidelines page, as it did then, still goes to what is basically the equivalent of a 404 not found page. So I get the idea to try again. I go to the appeal page, I mention that it says my account is suspended, I wonder why, and that when I go to look up the community guidelines it tells me the page isn't there, and if I did do something wrong, it has been three years, I think I've been punished enough.
I got a notice that the suspension has been lifted, I can go back.
So to make sure I don't get busted again, I don't try to get around anything, and I only use strictly technical terms when answering a sexually related question, e.g. I use "penis" and "vagina," even if the person asking the question uses "cock," "dick" or "pussy." (I suspect 'cunt' would be censored, and I would not normally use that word as I consider it offensive and you should only use it when you want to either give an insult ("I will not work for that cunt again ") or you're otherwise being intentionally insulting or offensive.)
I've already gotten 5 more best answers votes, I'm above 6100 points.
It's nice to be back!
The questions run the gamut from very technical to extremely personal. They can be all over the place from "what's wrong with this C program I wrote" to "I'm a virgin, I met a girl who will let me have sex with her, what do I do", and anything in between, organized into various categories.
Three years ago I got suspended from Yahoo! Answers for getting two TOS violations, but they wouldn't tell me what it was that I got banned over. I could no longer answer questions (or ask them, but that wasn't really that important).
Ben, bless his soul, looked at my item and made a guess, which I think was correct. I screwed up when I marked up an answer to get around the censoring filter, and someone ratted me out.
I was a Level 6 Answerer, I had hundreds of answers and over 6,000 points. Basically all gone.
The suggestion from someone at Answers was to start over with a new account.
You get two points for each answer and 10 extra points if it's voted a best answer, so you can imagine it took weeks to get there. Despite my account being suspended I'm still getting notices in e-mail three years later that some of my answers were voted a best answer.
So I checked one and tried to go to my account, only it says I'm suspended, possibly for violating "community guidelines" and I should go to a page if I thought it was in error.
The Community Guidelines page, as it did then, still goes to what is basically the equivalent of a 404 not found page. So I get the idea to try again. I go to the appeal page, I mention that it says my account is suspended, I wonder why, and that when I go to look up the community guidelines it tells me the page isn't there, and if I did do something wrong, it has been three years, I think I've been punished enough.
I got a notice that the suspension has been lifted, I can go back.
So to make sure I don't get busted again, I don't try to get around anything, and I only use strictly technical terms when answering a sexually related question, e.g. I use "penis" and "vagina," even if the person asking the question uses "cock," "dick" or "pussy." (I suspect 'cunt' would be censored, and I would not normally use that word as I consider it offensive and you should only use it when you want to either give an insult ("I will not work for that cunt again ") or you're otherwise being intentionally insulting or offensive.)
I've already gotten 5 more best answers votes, I'm above 6100 points.
It's nice to be back!