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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Chris Rasmussen commented
YAHOO: Fix your algorithm or hire human beings to police comments. Your rejections have run amuck.
Today's news featured the heartwarming story, "Cat-astrophe diverted: Family reunited with cat after they accidentally ship it out with return."
My response was somehow rejected: "This is the kind of story that takes the dread out of opening my laptop to take in the news. Big Thanks to author Becca Wood for a purrrfect start to my day!"
I'm speechless!
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Brian Reed commented
Everyone has an opinion, and they don't always align. But to silence so many peoples post or comments due to the fact that they don't align with your extreme leftists views! My comment singled no one out, was respectful to all and violated no rules or laws. But since you want to portray only the extreme lefts views, you silence those who RESPECTFULLY give another view. You are and absolutel garbage news agency and you need sued down to your underwear for the trash you post under the guise of "news"!!
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Nicholas Dodson commented
Our nation is sliding rapidly into an abyss of no return.
We cannot discuss issues if the level of discourse is set to that a of a 4th grade level.
Sometimes when we discuss news items that have us on the brink of war, total social collapse, or economic ruin, we use words that have more than one meaning. Your censorship program is unable to discern context of the conversation, and every day words are taken in the wrong context and either the post is deleted or blocked.
Yahoo, I think you also know that there are people within other countries that want serious harm to befall our nation and they post on your website. Yet you seem to worry more for them than you do for the people who live in the nation where you originate.
Currently the comment boards are not useful for anything but venting as it is impossible to have rational discussions here because of the algorithms you employ.
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Brazos 78 commented
Seems as though we've been randomly selected to be censored because our ideas do not meet Yahoo's left-wing program. Thus the comments are skewed. Too bad Yahoo. Try as you may, most of our country doesn't think like you want us to.....and we won't.
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Linda Fish commented
Some times people respond to my comments with vile language and sexual content, like a guy suggesting that as a woman I just need to "get down on all fours". Why do I get restriction notices if I mention a body part or capitalize a word and there are folks who send me vile and inappropriate responses that are not rejected.
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Michael Hotaling commented
Fix this mess. It's almost impossible to hold a conversation with anybody. I came here, because it wasn't being run like MSN. MSN is now a graveyard for conversation. Is this what Yahoo wants?
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Bill Swanson commented
Stop government propaganda from pretending to be local opinions.
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Bill Swanson commented
Trying to counter a nation using news feed comments as a part of propaganda to influence public opinion. Shine a light on professional trolls. Expose them. Where are they commenting from. Does their IP address change a lot, or host dozens of accounts? give them a UN flag.
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hubejoob commented
My comments are instantly rejected, i.e., within one second of posting. It reveals that someone is blacklisting COMMENTERS regardless of content. From other feedback I've seen, it's prolific enough to affect Yahoo's reputation. Up to the present it affects my impression of Yahoo as simply not caring what people think.
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sndmol 1098 commented
I keep getting an error message that my comment failed to post and retry. it never posts anything i write
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sndmol 1098 commented
hello
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sndmol 1098 commented
help posting
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Donald Grant commented
I've notice the number of people on here have fallen. 6 months ago I would spend 3 days arguing with liberals and now I can't get into a descent argument for anything. There are fewer thumbs up, so you not only have lost conservatives but also liberal. And fewer reader means less money in revenue. So Maybe change your ways and have more articles that tell the other side of the argument. **** off the liberals and let them defend their thoughts in the comment section. After all your readership is falling, so it's time to change direction. And it is election season, the busiest time of the cycle for you.
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Kevin Bagwell commented
Sadly the issue at present is OpenWeb is constantly trying to change words and meanings in their system while not letting public know where issues are. I suggest a simple solution then I will add to issues I've seen!
1. Our technology for phones to computers "underlines misspelled words". With a company that has become a Unicorn meaning reached billion dollar since 2015 could actually "use the same technology on words that are offensive or abusive."
2. The sad fact is many comments are also being blocked because of words that aren't offensive. In particular I've commented around 15 times on a certain type of small US aircraft carrier in World War II. But because the word could be used in the worlds most oldest profession the comments are removed. I try to comment about present wars but am called all sorts of great names. Sorry bad joke but they get away with abuse by using star hashtag or other special keys. I'm not built that way! I face those who are abusive. Problem is they get away with it but when I call them out I am the one who gets punished. Humm?
3. It's rather comical that I warned Yahoo on bots voting thumbs downs in 2020 that covered comments due to low reader approval. I also know now who was using the bots for Russia but they are working at a University. How I learned is they commented on Twitter how the thumbs downs should be used on twitter to do the same thing.
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Donald Grant commented
You have blocked me from making statements about this country being able to make weapons. When it was you in the media that started the call to send our manufacturing overseas. Starting with a Time magazine article in June of 1975 about "The High Cost Of American Labor". And now that there maybe a war coming we can't manufacture anything at the rate we would need. And that is because you sold it all out. But to block me, because you scrood up and didn't send the office jobs overseas and not the manufacturing is just Hypocritical of you to block it. Infact it is the biggest new that should be out there right now with all the troubles in the world we find ourselves in. And the reason is your Corporate bosses don't want the blame for what they did.
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Kathleen D Pearce commented
Whatever you are using to screen is nuts. IDK if you automatically dump posts that people don't like (agree with) or you have an AI that is just overboard on everything. I have not had posts rejected for years and I am careful about how I post. Now they are regularly rejected. FIX IT.
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Beverly Wardell commented
Why are my comments "failing to publish." Surely a comment like "love, love, love her" is NOT in any way "offensive." None of my comments are publishing. At least have the decency to tell me why. I'm a big girl!
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vladimir Ostromensky commented
I have written the following opinion here which was rejected about the Trump trial: "Look, the Telegraph is a conservative outlet!? Nuf said... But this article should be re-titled to "The trial is a disgrace for the orange sociopath and former president. Not for "America". Trump is BY FAR not America and he will NEVER BE!! But what he is, is: a crook, a conman, a liar, a psychopath, a violent thug, a ******, and a racist! Lets just keep these "very basic" FACTS in check here. -- There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with this statement. In fact IT IS ALL TRUE!!!! And not allowing me to say this is a DISGRACE to your useless, propaganda organization!!! I will NEVER use your services again!!!
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Old Dude commented
I can't even post the word "test" without it being rejected and you won't even give me a reason for this happens. I requested to be contacted many, many times and it never happens, this is not the way to treat you customers.
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Fred Peterson commented
i"m considering changing my news source.