Yahoo Answers makes the deplorable cry

[Fanatical Meat]

Yup the dumbest of the dumb have hijacked yahoo answers and possibly are the reason for the shutdown.
As I have said in multiple threads, nobody wants to advertise to deplorables, nobody wants to deal with them because they are worthless, no successful business wants to be associated with them.
They are truly toxic.

link:

Yahoo Answers to end as Trump fans see plot to “silence conservatives”

“Should Trump buy Yahoo to prevent Answers from being shut down?” user asks.

arstechnica.com

Recent questions listed on the homepage include:

• "Will America survive 4 years of Joe Biden?"
• "Can you point me to another site like yahoo answers where I can post about the truth regarding the left's degeneracy and ruining of the USA?"
• "Will liberals cry when Trump wins in 2024?"
• "I think George Floyd died from HEALTH ISSUES?"
• "Should Trump buy Yahoo immediately to prevent Answers from being shut down?"
• "Why do I need ID to buy firearm if I do t need one to vote?"
• "Why does Joe stutter so much like a retard and looks older than the tales from the crypt keeper?"
• "Closing of 'Yahoo! answers' means 'once again we lost freedom of speech'?"
• "Why do Donald Trump and Republicans hate minorities and love white supremacists?"
• "Is Yahoo Answers being shut to silence conservatives?"
• "As Yahoo! Answers prepares to shut down, how will conservatives spin the decision as an attempt to censor only conservatives?"
• "70,000,000 people voted for Trump. They can't all be stupid, can they?"
• "Do you agree with liberals who say Florida will be under water by 2050?"
• "Will Democrats ever admit that the election was rigged?"
• "Will Trump's new social media platform host a Q&A so we can keep the dialogue going? And will comments to news stories return?"

 

[dank69]

These people need to be bitch slapped IRL. It needs to be reflexive, legal, and protected.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

It is just amazing how they flock to every shitty poorly moderated site and fuck it up. Simply amazing how that happens. Rinse repeat until there are no un-moderated places left.

 

[Vic]

It is just amazing how they flock to every shitty poorly moderated site and fuck it up. Simply amazing how that happens. Rinse repeat until there are no un-moderated places left.

A couple years ago, the online version of the local newspaper shut down their comments section. In the article explaining their reasons for doing so, they described how their research had found that a very small group of commenters using a large number of fake accounts, in violation of the site TOS, had taken over the comments to push a single political viewpoint (not named, but Trumpism) and silence any opposing viewpoint. They also brought up how this small group of trolls were not paid subscribers, and that polling of paid subscribers showed that the vast majority of them avoided the comments because of these uncivil political trolls.
But the great irony was that, in the comments section for the article explaining why the comments section was being shut down, there were the trolls responsible feigning dismay that it was all the left's fault. "If only the left could have been more civil!" cried Right-wing sockpuppet #5644257.
You can't make this shit up.

 

[hal2kilo]

Yup the dumbest of the dumb have hijacked yahoo answers and possibly are the reason for the shutdown.
As I have said in multiple threads, nobody wants to advertise to deplorables, nobody wants to deal with them because they are worthless, no successful business wants to be associated with them.
They are truly toxic.

link:

Yahoo Answers to end as Trump fans see plot to “silence conservatives”

“Should Trump buy Yahoo to prevent Answers from being shut down?” user asks.

arstechnica.com

Recent questions listed on the homepage include:

• "Will America survive 4 years of Joe Biden?"
• "Can you point me to another site like yahoo answers where I can post about the truth regarding the left's degeneracy and ruining of the USA?"
• "Will liberals cry when Trump wins in 2024?"
• "I think George Floyd died from HEALTH ISSUES?"
• "Should Trump buy Yahoo immediately to prevent Answers from being shut down?"
• "Why do I need ID to buy firearm if I do t need one to vote?"
• "Why does Joe stutter so much like a retard and looks older than the tales from the crypt keeper?"
• "Closing of 'Yahoo! answers' means 'once again we lost freedom of speech'?"
• "Why do Donald Trump and Republicans hate minorities and love white supremacists?"
• "Is Yahoo Answers being shut to silence conservatives?"
• "As Yahoo! Answers prepares to shut down, how will conservatives spin the decision as an attempt to censor only conservatives?"
• "70,000,000 people voted for Trump. They can't all be stupid, can they?"
• "Do you agree with liberals who say Florida will be under water by 2050?"
• "Will Democrats ever admit that the election was rigged?"
• "Will Trump's new social media platform host a Q&A so we can keep the dialogue going? And will comments to news stories return?"

Yahoo answers? Nuf said.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Peeps still do the 'Hoo?


Why?


Other than a couple of very rarely used email accounts, I haven't been to that site in many years.

 

[iRONic]

You really have to ask why?!

 

[Torn Mind]

I think Verizon just wants to free up space for a supplanted platform. Reddit, facebook, even message boards have replaced Groups(already wiped and turned into solely a database of emails) and Answers.

 

[sandorski]

Dude's right, George Floyd did die of Health Issues, Oxygen Deprivation. Very unhealthy.

 

[Zorba]

Peeps still do the 'Hoo?


Why?


Other than a couple of very rarely used email accounts, I haven't been to that site in many years.

There are people that still use AOL for email.

The only things still decent on Yahoo are the Finance page (barely) and the fantasy sports. I am sure they will soon shoot themselves in the foot there too.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Finance? CNBC. Reuters. BI. Forbes. Even Nasdaq has a news page of sorts.

 

[woolfe9998]

It is just amazing how they flock to every shitty poorly moderated site and fuck it up. Simply amazing how that happens. Rinse repeat until there are no un-moderated places left.

Yes, and they always seem to find a way. They'll even pop up in the most unexpected places. For example, if you take a look at the user reviews section for movies and TV shows on IMDB. I was reading through user reviews for the TV show "Billions" the other day. While the show gets a high overall user rating, a preponderance of the actual written reviews are deplorables complaining that the show "went to shit" after they introduced a transgendered character in season 3, who goes by a plural pronoun, no less. The review section reads like a torrent of transphobic rage.

Then I started noticing it for other TV shows, like the show "Bridgerton" which ahistorically depicts of bunch of black people as British aristocracy in the early 19th century. Man did that piss off the deplorables.

Sadly, I suspect that IMDB will eventually discover that they have to start moderating their review content. They may even have to discontinue the written reviews if they don't have the labor force to do it.

Then they'll just find somewhere else to take a dump on.

 

[nOOky]

There are people that still use AOL for email.

The only things still decent on Yahoo are the Finance page (barely) and the fantasy sports. I am sure they will soon shoot themselves in the foot there too.

I just looked into an AOL/Netscape account I started over 20 years ago. It's still there, I had 63 new emails from when I checked it a year ago. It was kind of nostalgic, there were emails telling me I could increase my penis size by 50%, that I had won $1,000,000, and that I needed to respond immediately to something or I'd face trouble! Happily, no emails about extending my vehicle's warranty though.

 

[Zorba]

Finance? CNBC. Reuters. BI. Forbes. Even Nasdaq has a news page of sorts.

I need to shop it around again. Been a few years since I've looked.

It's sad, they used to have a lot of good products and just let all of them die.

 

[Zorba]

Yes, and they always seem to find a way. They'll even pop up in the most unexpected places. For example, if you take a look at the user reviews section for movies and TV shows on IMDB. I was reading through user reviews for the TV show "Billions" the other day. While the show gets a high overall user rating, a preponderance of the actual written reviews are deplorables complaining that the show "went to shit" after they introduced a transgendered character in season 3, who goes by a plural pronoun, no less. The review section reads like a torrent of transphobic rage.

Then I started noticing it for other TV shows, like the show "Bridgerton" which ahistorically depicts of bunch of black people as British aristocracy in the early 19th century. Man did that piss off the deplorables.

Sadly, I suspect that IMDB will eventually discover that they have to start moderating their review content. They may even have to discontinue the written reviews if they don't have the labor force to do it.

Then they'll just find somewhere else to take a dump on.

The first episode of Bridgerton I did have the thought "this isn't very accurate" quickly followed by "who gives a shit, this isn't a documentary or even a historical drama."

The Duke was the best character in the whole show.

 

[woolfe9998]

The first episode of Bridgerton I did have the thought "this isn't very accurate" quickly followed by "who gives a shit, this isn't a documentary or even a historical drama."

The Duke was the best character in the whole show.

Yeah, it should have been a clue that it was a pseudo-historical fantasy when we kept hearing songs by Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift being played on violins at lavish aristocratic balls. We were not meant to take this seriously as history.

Too bad Rege-Jean Page won't be on season 2. I may not watch season 2 because of that.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

It's sad, they used to have a lot of good products and just let all of them die.

The 'Hoo used to BE before the Goo.

It got weird with ads. I bailed to the Goo. Then it got weird with ads. Quackin' with the Duck for now.

 

[dank69]

The 'Hoo used to BE before the Goo.

It got weird with ads. I bailed to the Goo. Then it got weird with ads. Quackin' with the Duck for now.

Tried the Duck once. Subpar is an understatement.

 

[Zorba]

The 'Hoo used to BE before the Goo.

It got weird with ads. I bailed to the Goo. Then it got weird with ads. Quackin' with the Duck for now.

Yeah, I've been Ducking it for years now.

 

[Zorba]

Tried the Duck once. Subpar is an understatement.

When did you try it, it has improved a lot since it first came out.

 

[dank69]

When did you try it, it has improved a lot since it first came out.

Maybe a month or so ago. I don't remember exactly what I searched but I searched the same thing on Google and Duck, and Duck fed me some absolute horse shit, missing all the best answers to my question. I may try again sometime but I was not impressed to say the least.

 

[Zorba]

Maybe a month or so ago. I don't remember exactly what I searched but I searched the same thing on Google and Duck, and Duck fed me some absolute horse shit, missing all the best answers to my question. I may try again sometime but I was not impressed to say the least.

All I get on Google any more are shopping links, fuck that noise. I rarely have to try a different search engine, but when I have none of them do better than duck.