Why were Yahoo news discussion boards REALLY taken offline?
Question:
"Yahoo! News is working on new ways for readers to comment on the news and participate in a discussion around it. While we work on our new community features, the message boards that were linked from individual news articles have been taken offline."
Q: Why were the discussion boards REALLY taken offline? Choose an answer or provide your own insider info:
A. Yahoo is working with the U.S. government to create further propaganda for the pro-war effort and doesn't want to post public opposition, and the news discussion boards were dominated by anti-war posts.
B. Yahoo wants to work on stopping anti-liberal hate messages posted round-the-clock by some yet to be disclosed neoconservative group.
C. The draft will soon be reinstated and Yahoo doesn't want its servers overloaded with disscussions and comments.
D. Yahoo is freeing up server power for holiday commercial purposes to benefit their corporate advertisers and investors.
E. All the above
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It could be all of your reasons or a combination but the reason that Yahoo gave just doesnt hold any water at all.I find it insulting that they would try to ram that BS down our throats.I,for one,tried many times to post pro impeachment messages and all I got was a blank page with a yahoo logo on it..I cant prove anything but it sure seemed like censorship to me.Which is probably the real reason behind their decision,censorship.
Because yahoo is a piece of garbage. Why else!
Because they don't want people to have fun. I cancelled my Yahoo! web hosting service because of it.
I know ~$500/year isn't crap to Yahoo!, but it is to me.
e.
screw yahoo.
I think A and B. Sometimes when there was a really good message board, they would shut it down. That would make me mad. If it was about George Bush then sometimes the recs would not work. These are things that I noticed. I wish or hope they come back.
I go with A.
People think that Yahoo is part of the "Liberal Media" but its not. Actually the head CEOs of Yahoo are major contributors to the GOP. Terry Semel for instance. Do some research on it. You will be suprised. Yahoo is the Fox News of the internet.
At least we can tell you aren't a biased liberal.
Well, there was a lawsuit filed last September from a lawyer in California who sued Yahoo in regards to the message boards.
Seems the lawyer posted a comment on a story about his client, and he used his real name and was then attacked and called names, such as 'scumbag,' which is actually pretty civil if you were a regular poster.
But supposedly this lawyer asked Yahoo for the identities of the posters who trashed him and his client, and Yahoo did not provide the correct addresses or true identities.
So, the lawyer filed a lawsuit for defamation and slander on behalf of the entire state of California against Yahoo.
That could be one reason, but I doubt that the lawyer would actually have a case since the Yahoo TOS warned about using your real name or providing personal information in posts.
And those who did disparage the lawyer might not have known that he was "real" and most likely thought the poster was a troll.
But I think the real reason that Yahoo shutdown the message boards was due to revenue in that not enough posters clicked on ads and server problems due to high volume of posters.
I seriously doubt they closed to boards to stifle Freedom of Speech.
Because Yahoo owns Yahoo, and every time someone violates the TOS they agreed to, Yahoo becomes a joke.
Moderated forums, where there are safeguards against kids using it, and against b/s posts that serve no purpose but to harrass and harangue other people won't be tolerated.
It's about time Yahoo held up their end of the Terms of Service agreement, a contract is a contract.
The message boards as they stood weren't moderated and violations took place every day, now Yahoo is stepping up to the plate and cleaning up it's mess.
i have cancelled anything premium with yahoo, took them off as my homepage, put google on it, trolling and free speech was fun on yahoo message boards - all 30 of my infamous ids are going to waste now!!
Yahoo is Iraqi chocolate cake.
In a nutshell, it was because of the trolls. They got to out of hand and were dominating threads with there nonsense. Which is, of course, exactly what they do best. There will be new boards up sometime in the next few months, but I don't see how they will stop the trolling.
the message boards were taken down because of anti-american liberals with 5 or 6 user names each were hogging all the action.these same anti-americans forced cindybin to flip-out..god bless you cindybin.where ever you are...
My thought is that Yahoo caved into the squeaking wheels like the lawyers who made up lawsuits against them, the whining people that are easily offended ("my feeling... oh my feelings") and just plain "reporters" of offensive post. If you are a Yahoo decision maker sitting in an office all day and only hear about complaints you would start to believe it was a problem. It really wasn't because most secure people had no problem with the message boards so why would they feel the need to voice their opinion? As usual, the whining child gets it's way.
The Racism about the James Kim story was un real. I really think it was the straw that broke the Yahoo back. I dint think it was any worse than the Rosa Parks posts but it came at a bad time.
Freeing up server capacity to deal with E commerce would make sense, if you look at the parking lots at shopping malls they cant fit any more cars in hence they are loosing revenue. Apply the same logic to E commerce and it makes sense to make room for revenue generating space and time on the servers at the expense of crap about who has the smelliest farts
B.
That and because Neil Budde is a chickenshit MF'er.
Yahoo is absolutely Pro-Bush and Pro Iraq war. They have freely admitted in the past that they delete messages that they do not like.
Yahoo is managed by liberals, and they just couldn't stand seeing liberals get brow beaten constantly on the boards. So, doing what liberals do best, they removed this form of free speech.
I vote for A and B.
Yahoo helped Chinese officials to stifle expression in China by revealing identities and restrict access. Granted, that's China, but I think it speaks volumes about Yahoo's interests in free expression -- regardless of where that occurs.
F. None of the above
Yahoo message boards were taken away so that Yahoo can work towards creating their own special version of Candyland. A lovely place where everyone is your friend, where chocolate rivers flow...and all is well with the world!
Also, where lawyers don't scare you out of your pants, right Neil?
Jew owned Yahoo had to shut down free discussion of "news" for many reasons. Some of the reasons are:
1. The truth about the holocaust being a myth was spreading far and wide with investigations being launched by many prominent universities. The discussion of any consequent news stories stemming from those investigations would've substantially harmed the collective "victim mentality" of Jews world wide.
2. The discussions of the events of 9-11 have all been played out down to one undeniable fact: Mossad and Zionist members of the Bush administration planned, financed, organized and orchestrated 9-11 for Israel. This was starting to be heavily discussed on the yahoo boards at the time they shut down.
3. The recent admission of Omert to Israel's substantial nuclear arsenal was a secret that Jews NEVER wanted to be exposed. This admission was so damning to the Jews that a great deal of effort went into trying to spin "what he actually meant". This was a major independent news story at the time Yahoo decided to pull the plug.
Because Yahoo didn't learn from other internet flash-in-the-pans like Hotbot and Webcrawler.
Yahoo had a kickass traffic flow on their discussion boards that put lots of ads in front of lots of eyes.
Niel Budde really screwed the pooch with this decision.
I wonder how much ad revenue Yahoo lost in the past couple of days since the boards have been offline.
Now I'm off to other internet portals that cater to their customers.
algore actually invented taking down the discussion boards! it's a gutless move to kill the boards because a few are to vocal! what's the ignore option for? the worst aspect is the took it down and replaced it with nothing! they gave up advertising exposure by doing so! hope they bring it back same as before. if you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen folks!
Because there was too much anti-zionist sentiment being expressed
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