Suspended by Yahoo Answers!

by chemo38

Posted: 14 years ago 10 replies

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I just got suspended by Yahoo Answers for "solicitation". No, not that kind:p. I responded to a question by a new mother that wanted to stay at home and still make a living. I suggested this forum. Yahoo Answers think that is solicitation!

A forum?:rolleyes:

I am appealing their ignorance. Stay tuned!

#answers #suspended #yahoo

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- Matt Morgan 14 years ago
  
  Perhaps they dont want their visitors leaving their answer board for another message board.
  
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Sleaklight 14 years ago

Well, they see it as solicitating the membership of that person to this forum. I think?
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stefalex 14 years ago

Thanks for letting us now. I often refer to other sites, so far did't have any problems.
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wmeng24 14 years ago

Good Luck with the appeal chemo30!!!.....

a couple of years ago, I got suspended. I wrote them a very nice email asking them to explain/highlight the specific violation since I was truly unaware of what I had done wrong.

They replied and simply said that I did not obey the rules.... I respondend and explained that while I have to accept the suspension, I would greatly appreciate if they could explain with some measure of detail (other than "I did not obey the rules") what I did wrong so that should I open another account, I would not repeat the offence... since I really, really had no idea what I did wrong....

.... their response was again "I violated the terms and conditions....."

This went on for about 4 emails.. and they responded the same way each time...

I got fed up and had to open a new account.

In retrospect, this is what I felt I did wrong....

To save time, I often posted the same response to very similar questions. My answers were quite good and often got "best answer", but I guess Yahoo seeing the same response many times thought it was some type of spaming....???

I'm still not sure...
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mlord10 14 years ago

Yahoo answers suspended my account awhile back for something similar. My account was reinstated, but I was demoted from level 2 to level 1. I really do not use Yahoo answers very much, because other than the fact that one of your answers can get listed high in the search engines, I never really saw much benefit from it.
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- Dr Livingston 14 years ago
  
  Me too. I've been suspended 2 times from yahoo answers. I even put my link in the resource box... what the heck would it be for if you can't put something in there to refer where you got your info?
  
  In their defense, I also used the same answer a few times on similar questions... it was also a very good answer!!!:rolleyes:
  
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  KevinTorrence 14 years ago
  
  The one thing I still can't get over is that Yahoo answers (at least the one's I've tried to answer / help out on) seems to be a big site full of broke teenagers asking questions. I suppose the real benefit is having your answer posted for others to read later on ... and not necessarily the original asker..?
  
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rmolina88 14 years ago

I tried Yahoo Answers to promote my articles, but at the worst, I'd just get thumbs downed.
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txconx 14 years ago

I've had a couple accounts suspended with no explanation and no discussion about reinstatement. I lost a long-time account with a username that has been "mine" on the internet for years, plus everything in Yahoo groups and webmaster. I no longer answer questions at Yahoo.
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