Stop deleting comments that don't break the rules without specifying what rule is being broken. Yahoo is censoring free speech.
Stop deleting comments that "break the rules" without specifying what rule is being broken. Yahoo is censoring free speech because it doesn't align with their political views.
Michael Rumfelt
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john johnson
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I have been using Yahoo as my homepage for more than 20 years. It is time I censor them and move away.
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john johnson
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I must agree!
Yahoo's automatic system is censoring free speech.
Someone, who may have the time and money, could sue Yahoo over this.
At least show us the words or phrase that our comments are being flagged for and connect it to the actual Yahoo rule or policy it is breaking. -
Paula Revere
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At least you can highlight the offending text. Often my comments get rejected even though I have no idea what words were wrong.
You are not clear, and your are overly broad with your removals. Your policy makes people like me to stop using Yahoo.
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Brian Boruff
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The censorship is getting out of control!
Yahoo deletes comments that are just copied and pasted FROM THEIR OWN ARTICLES.
Moreover, commenting on an article about a child ******** and calling that person a pedophile is a fact, not a judgement.
You should not be censoring facts. Especially if you're going to have those kinds of articles on the news feed.
The AI is garbage, allowing people with usernames like "DonJaWannaBlowMe" but then censoring comments that are factually correct and directly address the content of your own stories.
If you don't want people to talk about sensitive subjects, stop posting articles ON SENSITIVE SUBJECTS.
I've found creative ways around the censorship, but I shouldn't have to.
Yall some fascists.
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W J
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I 100% agree with this. Actually, I don’t think that our comments should be censored whatsoever. I think we as users can decide which other users we would like to mute because they become problematic for us, but if you insist on treating us like children and censoring our comments, I think you owe it to us to tell us exactly what the problem is. I can’t tell you how many times something that I’ve said has been rejected with no specific reason other than it violates your rules or something but I don’t understand why or what I did wrong. It’s infuriating.
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mike sisco
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The comment section is less than worthless. It's populated with a majority percentage of trolls, bots, operatives and antagonists. But if you call out the obvious scum, your comment is rejected. Yahoo and OpenWeb can take their sites, search engine, comment section, moderators, "community standards" and advertisers, roll them all into a nice tight cylinder and shove them up their fourth point of contact. I can redo my Yahoo email to the spam account and use gmail as my primary and change my home page in 15 minutes. **** absolutely everything about yahoo.
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Michael Smith
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This!
I make a post saying the historical fact Russia didn’t take any land from Ukraine during Trumps term, but did in both Obama and Biden’s terms.
Just straight up fact.
That gets deleted.
But now someone replies to a comment of mine about inflation, and does nothing out straight up call me “stooopid”. And that comment remains even after I report it!?The biased background here is not even laughable.
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Gil Favor
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The moderators, censors and thought police at Yahoo, are just plain rabid. With the 'power' they hold on the site.
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Major Major
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I had a one word answer rejected and rejected on appeal today. The answer, and I quote, was "No."
It's getting ridiculous.
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K R
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It would be nice to know why my comments are being rejected, after the fact, when there are no curse words, no threats, no violence, and no obscenities! We deserve to have an appeal link!
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kitty bhagat
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Don't you know Yahoo is a profit making corporation?
Why are you surprised that they are limiting free speech?
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Micah Gwartney
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I just got an email from a comment I made 25 WEEKS ago, saying it was rejected for not meeting community guidelines. My comment was in no way argumentative, hurtful, or combative. I just made a comment about a new Star Wars article that was riddled with holes. I pointed out the writer did not do their homework before publishing the article. Sad day when something as simple as that gets rejected, and 6 months later on top of it!
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donald mcronalds
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Yahoo & OpenWeb suck Big donkey **** & guzzle buckets of ***.
******* censor ******! -
Steve Pribila
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Try to grow up yahoo
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Steve Pribila
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Grow up Yahoo
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Don FourTwenty
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Apollo Global Management owns Yahoo and has allowed Yahoo comments to be run extremely poorly. Filters and algorithms that don't work as intended censor comments that do no break the rules. It's frustrating.
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Mel McKinney
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Yes, in agreement. I’ve loved Yahoo for years of my life because it was a free platform to support everyone’s perspectives, interests and opinions. Suppressing user conversations isn’t why I come here.
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Lea Gadberry-Wright
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What is up with the relentless attacks on Trump, but not a whisper of mention about Biden’s colossal failure as America’s the Greatest Country in the world…who survived him as our biggest joke and most embarrassing leader, in history, for the past four years?!??!!?
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Terry Hendrickson
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"Your comment did not publish" is insufficient reasoning.
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joe o'brien
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Yahoo comments are run by the company OpenWeb, not yahoo.
OpenWeb's "AI" is extremely faulty, and their "Moderators" uneducated and/or ignorant.Often, a slight change in grammar (like hyphens or such) will make the difference between accepted & rejected comments.
People should start bombarding OpenWeb with complaints regarding comment rejection.