Rejecting of comments
Telling someone that their comment was meanspirited, should have not resulted with a rejection to post. There are some insulting and demeaning comments that definitely should have been rejected, but weren't. But, Hey Yahoo, it's your platform! I'm out!
Hello. While we cannot speak about specific comments, policy interpretations, or actions action in relation to specific comments outside of with their original poster, we seek to apply the Yahoo Community Guidelines as evenly, fairly, and objectively as possible.
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Alberta Batchelor commented
Constantly the page won't load says exit or wait but won't go to the site of questions to respond back what are you scared of?
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Drn commented
you censored term CINOs for Christians In Name Only but allow RINO???
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Justin Novaro commented
Does anyone at Yahoo read these comments or just users?
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Justin Novaro commented
1) I understand content monitoring but the system is too strict. I get "content warnings or flagged for approval, and cannot find any logical reason. Occasionally it might be referring to a policy as crazy. but often no reason whatsoever. 2) The function where I can see if people liked or replied to comments rarely brings you back to the discussion thread when clicked on. Hinders ability to debate and exchage ideas. 3) You carried content about the SCOTUS Clean Water act Case from "The Recount today. The article (tho did not technically lie) portrayed such an inaccurate reporting of the oral arguments that I don't see how it is not fake news. It resulted promoting division and actually making readers less informed. The title of the article is "Justice Jackson, on her first day in the Supreme Court, pushes back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act." Please take time to read the accurate reporting on the oral arguments on Scotus Blog and I think you will understand my point. If you do that you will at least see my comment is not based upon my personal political views.
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Anonymous commented
Yahoo has decided that the word "corpulent" is offensive but "fat" is not, though the two words are synonyms. You rejected "too corpulent for comfort" but accepted "too fat to fit," and that's just pathetic. If your glossary is that limited, and you think your audience can't be bothered to look up three-syllable words, go back to having no comment section at all.
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t c commented
Let anyone post comments no matter what. If people are offended then, so what? It is what it is. If you prevent comments from being posted then you are in a sense censoring the public domain. Shame on you.
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KerrySue Cronin commented
I don't understand why I have my comments rejected for nothing that I can see wrong with them. No swears, no threats, no name calling. The things i do see posted are 1000's of times worse than anything I have ever written. What gives?fix
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Dana Reagan commented
I think people should be able to post their viewpoints on stories of importance instead of feeling patronized by an organization which is making money off of them. I do not support threats or hate speech, but if you are going to post a news story, either let people speak, or drop comments altogether. I guess we can only comment on unimportant "safe" stories. What is the point in that?
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Christopher Benker commented
Why won't you let people share their feelings regarding the STUPID, HYPOCRITICAL statements that Biden and his minions spout off?
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marcelo piwnica commented
You must delete your community guidelines because they are a tutorial of censorship and people are afraid of commenting in the yahoo news.Besides moderating comments is profoundly antidemocratic.
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Margaret Mackenzie commented
My comment today was not posted. I was quoting what was said in the attached article. Someone might be offended.
Well I was offended by a comment made to a post earlier this week.publisher's logo
james941929 Mon 22 Aug 2022 03:05:22 PM comments like this are permitted
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Frank F Kling commented
Reduce system sensitivity for what passes as an acceptable comment. For example, the censor rejected my comment that contained "**** the land." Technically "****" was used, but not in its normal context. No matter, comment rejected.
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Patrick Kruse commented
You can unblock my ability to reply to comments because I am not a lefty. This is blatant violation of my 1st Amendment rights. I have been blocked for over a year now, enough already. The only people allowed to comment are leftists or Trump haters.
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Patrick Kruse commented
You can unblock my ability to reply to comments because I am not a lefty. This is blatant violation of my 1st Amendment rights. I have been blocked for over a year now, enough already. The only people allowed to comment are leftists or Trump haters.
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E.H. G. commented
Why have you held up my perfectly inoffensive reply for several days now to an offensive comment that made a personal attack on me? While my language is strong, it just tells the person to whom I'm replying (or the trolling bot, sine that is very prevalent) , "Jay" why he's off base and why and how he can fix it. Much bigger insults have gone through even in this comment thread. It deals with President Biden testing positive again for Covid-19 after coming out of isolation. Please let my comment go through, or tell me specifically why you won't, e.g., what precise wording violates your guidelines. Thank you!
ehgertel at yahoo dot com
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skippy jackson commented
You put the worst words in your stories then censor us if we try to write the word dumb or stupid. Are you serious? You think I'll offend someone with a word that's less offensive than one you just wrote and they already read? I can understand censoring hate, but censoring our words is wrong. People reading and writing comments are adults and can handle what they read. You might as well take the comments out again if we can't say what we're thinking. Your stories are pointless with proper comments and seeing what others really think.
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kathy marcum commented
Every time I comment on yahoo news articles my comments are flagged stop violating my right to comment.
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Brief Detail commented
It would be fair to release held up comments sooner so to refute the lies (or misunderstandings) of other commentators on news item.
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Lyle Gentry commented
Knock it off already!
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S . commented
My comment was immediately flagged before I posted. I removed one word (which didn't change the meaning of the sentence at all), and it went through.
My comment followed all of the guidelines. That kind of hard coding of words in your filter algorithms is utterly ridiculous in this day and age.