Yahoo Has Gone Away -- No Such Luck!

[Back in the bowels of March 2012, I wrote:]
Dear Yahoo,

Over the years in Yahoo Answers I have been offended insulted and reported hundreds of times sometimes dozens of times in a week, I have been  slandered in so many ridiculous ways, I  have filed complaint after complaint that your system is buggy and THEN, after years of abuse, I get a warning notice in a week with only FOUR violations (practically a first week that low,) but some troll-control person in Yahoo takes and interest in me and BAM I have no more account. Yes I insulted those attacking me because it was my last chance.

If your system is completely broken you give the users no other choice. Your company has never once responded to anything I have ever written, and you do not fix the gaping problems in your "monitoring system" so I should not have been suspended.

That's the truth.
HH

Their response:
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Boo-Dis, Boo-Dis, Buddhist!

"Self" wrote this piece about a father fixing his angry son by having him hammer a nail in the fence every time he got angry. After that he had him remove one every time he went a day without getting angry. Then he points to all the holes and says apologizing is pointless because the holes still remain, basically punishing the child for reforming. So I wanted to mock the piece, but she removed it. Here is my response anyway (for your entertainment.):


Why I am not a Buddhist:
[I wish I had the original here to show you what I am mocking, but Buddhists write in sand and then erase their answers in a sort of passive-aggressive egolessness.]


variant 1:
A father saw his son getting angry all the time so he told him to put a nail through their front fence every time he got angry. But the "father" was a woman author who didn't realize that boys LOVE to hammer nails!


variant 2:
The father told his son, every time you sit in judgement on another, put a nail in the fence. The boy noticed that right away his father put his millionth nail in the fence for his remarks to his son. Self and Hiram were right next to him hammering in their nails.


variant 3:
The boy removed the last of the nails once his anger had subsided and his father said "See, the holes are still there. You cannot remove the hurt by apologizing. So the boy hammered in another two nails, one for his father's annoying and insulting exercise and one for his anger at the results.

Best and Worst last Week of March

Week four best and worst.
Best:

At first this werk Adeline_cosine seemed to be the only player. Here is a good'un with lots of subtle meaning:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aiqjcy_PBlj.K3EFtth5qD.n5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120314151710AAJ8fh1

Kels gets a simple idea out beautifully:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtuMnrNA9pc33b45P4dzQiqn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120315124815AA6mA3o

All women this week, not a surprise as the men are too busy slugging it out, but this one is unique. Every time Caz tries to write in her old jabberwocky style it falls flat ( as this one did, in an earlier version,) but unlike her other efforts this one does not fall apart by being corrected:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apsz5CxbIqjeuDOXleUK5xen5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120317095326AAvmfF9
Bravo Caz (or whoever you are.)

Worst:

Caz, who once wrote brilliant jabberwocky is now writing drivel. What the hell happened to her "brain injury"? Is this another Yahoo fraud or am I missing something?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjWm2mw8WbjUSzlSUuz.MNmn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120313003419AAXhlKC

Billy, Billy, I liked this poem last week, now you strap it to a dirge and write four more lugubrious chapters. Wassamaterwitu?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aiqjcy_PBlj.K3EFtth5qD.n5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120314151710AAJ8fh1

Frederic picked this up, which the cow's had left, somewhere in a meadow:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avb91h86fxr40Mjpp3b2sWyn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120315153716AAxNvO1


Best and worst in one:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ajw8eswlhMzd9zsG2ufaN3mn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120313061936AAY0T19

The first half has been rewritten out of all that it was worth and the second half works, go figure!

Lastly indeterminate -- I have been so frustrated and disappointed by Dave of late that I want to point this one out even though I hated it because it is rare anymore that he writes this competently, even though the theme goes horribly awry:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ah4ZZ1eN.ttiq48FziZrCDOn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120315185010AA6U1Ew

Dave Sold Out (1 month ago)

[I have given up on trying to deal with Dave, but this was written about a month ago, and I am posting all of my backlog of posts.]

After Dave praised this crap...

...he sold his value as a commentator. Praise your allies and insult people whom you disagree with. That is how to turn a poetry site into a dank sandbox.

Congrats Dave!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar54vcnFlJSrDq6E5N6CiTSn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120315073308AAFrg3U

More of my whining about Blogger

Blogger and email:

My old blogsite, which sucked had one good feature, you could email a post. Google gives allows you to make up your own @ddress which doesn't work, OR you can post to go.blogger and hope for the best. (It says the page does not exist)

If this appears it means I survived the attempt. (it didn't, I am reposting what Go Blogger refused here.) Years ago I worked for IBM and was amazed that they were unable to provide employees with access to the internet. The idea that Google cannot allow you to simply post by email is absurd. I almost feel like I am a hostage of the Internet again!

http://hiramunleashed.blogspot.com/2012/04/email-posting-to-blogger-apparently.html



http://hiramunleashed.blogspot.com/2012/04/now-blogger-says-i-can-post-to-my.html

http://hiramunleashed.blogspot.com/2012/04/httpsupport.html

Best and Worst Third Week of March

Week four best and worst

Best:
Na’ashjéii Asdzáá
A new light in Yahoo Poetry (Oops! It's just Nancy having us on:)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjLOwlTH.K6bimfQMCa.fgqn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120308111813AAcFFW3

HD makes the list of course!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar.AHMTKkHqGAHQiJ.btr76n5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120311195655AAtqDsx

This is a cute little poem but because it is not so serious or so incredible it shouldn't be on my best list. It is there because everyone else is Yahoo has apparently abandoned poetry for Greek Wars.
Thank you, Funky:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApN6sAsmDttOz2susiAf6myn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120310080831AAR3PgQ

Worst:
Synopsis, are we plagiarizing now?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj6KidnfCJPnW6TgvHr6yuWn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120309090240AA4AHP4
From Tara Mohr:
http://www.taramohr.com/2011/10/you-shaped-hole-today-show-clip-more/
And at least she meant something interesting by the term.

Dallas recounting things in a mechanical and checklist fashion (with the odd aw shucks sticking out like spelling errors inna grammar book.) You cannot skim and bog down in regionalism at the same time, D:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjNmVPsdM1m_apt7uKEUv0Wn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120309075829AA3D72G


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Comments and Jibes

Stupid 101: weaseling for a compliment and bitching at the game you wanted to play at the same time:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhHhqydhL.xNYsuiqgt7vmOn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120307074326AArbQxr
(Neonman didn't go anywhere BY THE WAY)

Libby turns psychotic (with comments in parens from me:)

All is well in this world.
(If you've never seen the garbage seas [add link here])
The grain is harvested;
(and rots on the docks)
the men are fed.
(and the women and kids go hungry)
The women share this success.
(because you don't seem to realize they do 3/4 of the work for 1/4 less pay than the men get.)
Enough said. (Hardly)


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmoPjmW586.DkK8IDgmqIs6n5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120307055642AAVSv5K

Pity the poor soldier:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiDWFp_v.AlsUzo5k1p6uHCn5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20120308121025AApcF5Y

I am going to risk a new suggestion. Since Bannibal only writes "my world is fine God bless" or "my world is dark I want to die" perhaps he could be brought into details and focus, and she could take on large as life themes, if Dallas and TBO co-wrote a poem.

Peter/Milieu up to his old games. Those of us old enough to remember saw Peter as top Answerer, no Milieu as #2, 3, 4, etc... And then one day there was Milieu, formerly known as Peter.

The quote from Peter/Milieu: "While I love and admire and respect many men, there are many more I pity and ignore. I have never been a man, (wanted to be) nor have I ever hidden a man behind my skirts, probably because I don't wear skirts."

He has loved many men and despised many more, yeah right!

For Frederic, Synopsis, Danny R....

For Frederic, Synopsis, Danny R.  and all the "say it for the 500th time" poets...

Boring rhyme opener blinkered with irony
verbal pyrotechnics, so deft and shiny;
toothsome metaphors, muted with pretenses,
an insensate, tasteless feast for the senses.

Now tell the story of a suffering child
bring on the Cossacks, go hog-wild,
succor the reader with and easy plant;
even teach minerals how to dance.

Eye-rony, mute, deaf-t and insensate;
child, hog, plant mineral, but wait!
This time show all the underpinnings,
bet 'gainst the joke and pocket the winnings.

Waste the reader's time with games
but not cliche drivel in poetry's name.