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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Linwood Lyons commented
It is critical because someone keeps reporting my posts, and eventually I'll be banned. That has happened before on Yahoo. I was banned for posting comments saying that global warming was a problem. One more more deniers reported several posts. I suspect that reviewers are given 5-10 seconds to respond to a report, and if the post is long, they don't have time to read it, and just approve the report and reject the comment. That's probably still true.
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Linwood Lyons commented
Keep track of post complaints, including who makes them. specifically who makes them. When 1 individual reports several posts, that are mostly okay, then that person should be disqualified from reporting. Maybe without even telling the person. For example I posted a comment to this article which was rejected:
https://news.yahoo.com/transcript-rep-ken-buck-face-181932644.html
"Yep. Remember southern 'conservatives' were democrats from the time of the civil war until Johnson passed the civil rights act and the voting rights act. They were called dixiecrats. Johnson said at the time, "We've lots the southern vote for a generation." Wrong. A century. (This comment is not only appropriate, but historically correct!)" -
Kaye Munroe commented
Not every post is an insult against people!
I was posting about how animals in shelters have been rejected by former owners, but couldn't because Yahoo's AI apparently thought I was calling humans "rejects." Just now, I couldn't post that a food was "yucky."
AI has progressed now, so there's no excuse for this kind of archaic censorship. Yahoo needs to keep their tech up to date. -
Frank T Lisa commented
Get your censor bot a vocabulary lesson.
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John Doe commented
How can the name of a 1968 movie be offensive, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the flying car, staring **** Van Dyke?
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Sam Clark commented
C'mon Man! Ease up on comment censoring. Here's another example of what Yahoo Comments censors/rejects.
In his 1994 autobiography I. Asimov, recounting a similar argument with fellow Jewish Sci-Fi writer Avram Davidson (who also claimed the Jews had never persecuted anyone), Asimov argued his claim of Jewish intolerance and silenced Davidson by writing: "Avram, you and I are Jews who live in a country that is ninety-five percent non-Jewish and we are doing very well. I wonder how we would make out, Avram, if we were Gentiles and lived in a country that was ninety-five percent Orthodox Jewish." Davidson never responded. -
Sam Clark commented
...censoring comments. Here's an example (related to UTA dropping Susan Sarandon) that was rejected:
I'm reminded of something Isaac Asimov, arguarbly the greatest science fiction writer of all time (Foundation Trilogy, I Robot, et al) and also a Jew, wrote in his 1994 autobiography (writing that today would likely get him branded antisemitic).
Asimov recounts an occasion where he shared a platform with Elie Wiesel and in frustration over some of Wiesel's negative generalizations voicing his distrust of scientists and engineers because scientists and engineers had been involved in the Holocaust, Asimov (brooding and unable to keep quiet) challenged and silenced Wiesel on the matter of Wiesel's claim that the Jews had never persecuted others) by citing the choice 2nd century Maccabean Kingdom Hyrcanus of Judea gave the Edomites after conquering Edom - convert to Judaism or suffer the sword. Asimov concluded: "I might have gone further. I might have referred to the treatment of the Canaanites by the Israelites under David and Solomon. And if I could have foreseen the future, I would have mentioned what is going on in Israel today [1994]. American Jews might appreciate the situation more clearly if they imagined a reversal of roles, of Palestinians ruling the land and of Jews despairingly throwing rocks.". -
Bobbie Cimo commented
When my comments get rejected it would be helpful to let me know where I went wrong. I commented on an article written about a coach. I agreed with the article but a fan didn't like my comment. After several back and forth, I told her to please stop badgering me and I didn't want her writing me again. My comment was rejected. When I appealed it, that appeal was rejected but the person badgering me, her comments to me went through. The bottom line is how do we know what we did wrong if they're not specific?
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nunya biz commented
Why do you supply gifs that if you use them you will automatically reject the comment? Is this a way of rejecting comments without having to have an real excuse?
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John Doe commented
Your sarcasm was wonderfully put, Is a complement, reeducate your 3 year old children doing your censorship or hire 4 year olds to take their place.
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John Doe commented
Yahoo is Palestinian supporters, I can tell by the rejected comments.
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Caleb Grunfeld commented
Yahoo.... Here's your chance to nail someone for really violating your "standards" for a change.
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Jeffrey A Sobel commented
Same comment here. A couple of my comments, based entirely on known facts displayed in current headlines with no value judgements or other claims of any sort, were rejected. So, I wrote a short, specifically antisemitic comment, all opinion and hatred, that posted without issue.
That tells me a lot about the censors at Yahoo.
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Hugh Patterson commented
Please provide some insight as to why a particular comment gets rejected. I have had a couple. I typically disagree, but I can usually figure out what "probably" was the issue. I recently had one kicked back, and I have no idea what the issue was.
If you don't tell us what was objectionable, we have to guess, and we will probably guess wrong. -
Fuq Hamas commented
Yahoo supports HAMAS obviously. You only allow rude comments from Terrorist supporters and wont allow the other side to comment back so ********. This is why everyone uses gmail you stupid *****
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John Doe commented
You just lost another follower to Truth Social.
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John Doe commented
Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. That is hard to do when yahoo news blocks the comments out.
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JJay Lensbo commented
Here is another idea, **** your stupid trying to be more aware of people's feeling's you libtards.
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JJay Lensbo commented
You are fucktards
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Jeffery Thompson commented
I have had two posts rejected recently with no notice as to why. Both of my posts were factually correct, so they should have been allowed. You also did not give me a notice of the rejection; they just simply did not appear. Why is this?