MY APPEAL for a question violation in Yahoo Answers

So ASKING "WHAT POETRY IS SUPPOSED TO DO?" IS AGAINST YAHOO GUIDELINES? YOU GUYS HAVE LOST THE THREAD < SERIOUSLY

Happy Hiram
The question on Yahoo Answers was reported and deleted by one or more trusted members of the Answers community:

"What is poetry really supposed to do?"

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YAHOO IS DEAD FOLKS,

WAKE UP ANS SMELL THE COFFEE!

Holiday Nightmares Become Boring Commonplaces

Hi friends,

I have done many sorts of volunteer work over the years and I have come up with a simple rule for myself. If I am not willing to WORK for a cause actively I don't just throw money at it. 

That being said, many lives are improved by the work of charities, despite the fact that many charities are 75% overhead and much money donated to overseas causes goes to the hands of politicians, dictators and warlords. Charity is a good impulse. 

Here is where I get annoyed. Just like action movies deaden our response to violence, commercials showing dying babies and sick pets disgust me with the CHARITY, not with the situation. 

Jesus said the poor will always be with us, but that is not a reason not to help. But any charity that is going to throw dead babies into my livingroom will NEVER get money out of me until they change their ways. 

Graphic, gory and manipulative commercials make me a little more cynical every day. Rather than crying over suffering children I am approaching the point of making jokes in a mock narrator's voice. I don't like feeling this way AND I BLAME THE PRODUCERS of such garbage.

Why don't they run a commercial saying "We know you are humane enough to send money without having to be brutalized by a shocking (well unfortunately no longer shocking) graphic commercial during your holiday season."

That (if the dog and cat people joined in too) I would pay for. But I will not send 50 cents a day for being abused and diminished as a human being.

The Appeal that was never sent

Yahoo Answers Reporters flagged one of my answers but I couldn't appeal because the appeal window is broken. My snarky other answer that was reported has a perfectly good appeals page, but I know that answer was against guidelines so I have no desire to appeal it. Seems every time I am in the right, Yahoo prevents me from appealing.

Here is what I would have said:

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Advising someone that they are breaking yahoo guidelines CAN'T be against guidelines. God knows none of the hundreds of people I have met in YA can figure the damned things out without advice.

If explaining the guidelines is against the guidelines, you might just as well close shop now.
-Happy Hiram

 Hello Happy Hiram,
The answer on Yahoo Answers was reported and deleted by one or more trusted members of the Answers community:
"Apparently linking to outside sites is against Yahoo guidelines. I post the same poem with and without a link and the one with the link gets reported. Lucky you are that I think reporting is equivalent to aspiring to the quisling of the year award. Didn't read the poem."

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Do you think I would have got my answer back?

Juxtaposing Lives/ Mis-Stepped Waltz

Juxtaposing Lives by Thomas Oh Yes I'm young just twelve years old I had a dream that's not been told So shy am I to talk to you And please don't think I have no clue When Disney had a tee-vee (tv) show “When Knighthood was in Flowers” grow A tale of Greensleeves came to me Not Anne Boleyn or King Henry A different legend worth a muse Have sought but never caught to choose Fair maiden lived her life by day One time-line always day's display Then juxtapose a life by night No equilibrium in sight A catatonic parallel Two lives at once it does foretell At night a woman dark but free Collateral iniquity But every time that I wake up Return to day the maiden's cup So onward now the search begins The golden cup for crosses sins The castles safe as maiden lives I seek the truth of what forgives I am My Lady that's for sure Two personalities no cure Which one of us will take the prize The Holy Grail's (mere) exercise

Mis-stepped Waltz by Hiram No twelve year old thinks they are young No tale exists that's not seen tongue If shy you are which seems quite false The missteps here are like a waltz For networks don't have shows these days Grew, he means, not what he says (The song from "How the West was Won"?) A misbeat rhyme, no joke no pun. Confused, I listen for the thread And get this gibberish instead An owl has never a maiden been, With night glow face of freakish green Drag this out please, I'm still unclear Equal WHAT, you bend my ear Catatonic pair, there's TWO asleep? Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. After two wasted stanzas, ahem... Barely describe – and then condemn? A dream, that soggy lit'ery elf The story now is 'bout himself? Throughout the 1800's west? If crosses sin, I'll eat my cowboy vest Though maiden's lives are short and rough More vague-aries -- I've had enough! A movie Disney never made My sleeves are green and disarrayed Not the one who wrote this drivel Can green sleeves catch this pointless drizzle?

An Answers Poster asks Yahoo Answers

From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 5:11 PM
Subject: Violations

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Dear Yahoo,

Many of us in the poetry section have become targets and are receiving
multiple violations everyday - some from Q's or A's that are years old.

Many of us don't even bother posting questions out of fear of having
our accounts suspended

To say it is disheartening is a vast understatement. If you can't get
a handle on it or change the rules somehow, you are going to lose us.
Your advertisers will notice such things and spend their budgets with
sites that are more user-friendly.

That you give one person the power to do this with one click is
something I do not understand. You trust them forever because their
'history' was always accurate? That is known site-wide - and some of
them did exactly that so they could then have the power to go after
the rest of us.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.
TG - Uh Huh

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From: Yahoo! Answers Team
To: TG
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: violations



How does Community Moderation work?

This article describes moderation of questions & answers in Yahoo
Answers community. Community reporting empowers reliable Answers users to help us more quickly remove inappropriate questions & answers. Members of the community who reliably identify and report questions and answers will
have more influence than others.

Thanks,
-- Yahoo! Answers Team

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From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: violations

These are quotes from you Guidelines:

If a question or answer is reported by one or more reliable users,
it will be removed.

I have one account only - I know of people who have had over 100 accounts.

We try blocking the ones we know are doing this, but it's completely
ineffective; they merely create new accounts and attack us with those
ones.

Oh, and thank you for the form letter reply.

TG

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From: Yahoo! Answers Team
To: TG
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Violations

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Dear TG,

It appeared you assumed that somehow people were given power to remove
content with one click, so we assumed you hadn't seen the way CM
actually worked.

Thanks,
-- Yahoo! Answers Team

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From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: violations

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Yahoo,

No, I didn't assume that at all. I just know that one person who
managed to garner himself more than one blue ribbon for reporting
genuine violations has done just that with two or more of his multiple
accounts. It is with those accounts, one person is able to report the
same question or answer two or more times. Did you not read the very guidelines you referred me to?

Thanks,

TG

No Further Response! Yahoo!

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Protesting Yahoo Advertizers

An email interchange, sent to me by my dear friend BG. Dear Yahoo Advertiser, I noticed your ad in Yahoo Answers and I just wanted to let you know that I am never using your services so long as you associate yourselves with Yahoo. Bobby's Girl Hey Bobby's Girl,   I'm incredibly sorry for any frustration caused by our site! However, I'm a bit confused as we are not affiliated with Yahoo. If you could be more specific as to the issue you are facing I would be happy to assist you. Help Team (@Yahoo Advertiser) Dear Yahoo Advertiser, Uhmmm, I owe you an apology - but I saw your ad on Yahoo Answers & this website has become a cesspool; I wanted to complain to the advertisers since Yahoo does nothing about our problems with the site. I randomly clicked - and you were the unfortunate recipient of my bad mood.   Please, I invite you to share with your co-workers my deepest apologies for being mean to you. I try never to go that direction - but I often detour from Idiot Street to Imbecile Avenue when I really wanted to take the High Road.   (I will ask directions next time.)   Sorry.   BG.

Skunkfluck and Texans, read em and weap...

If you put dot dot dot on separate lines
In front of your poem every time
It means you like to meet women on line
And abuse them for a good time.

Write a pretty stanza and sometimes rhyme
But use a crooked avatar from some porn site
The you must be bilking old ladies with rhymes
About missing children, and wound sites.

I can write a rhyme using the same words at the ends
And still be more original than daily romantic tripe
When love is the moon and a prison and a light - it never ends
But never once do these hacks look at themselves and say "Yipe!"

There are child fiddlers, report diddlers and Egyptian saboteurs
Murdering Hapsuchshit till you want to shout out "Help!"
There are merry widows, teen angst and dried up bachelors,
But the worst offenders frankly ask for homework help.