consumerist.com — Reader Andrew has been a Yahoo! email paid subscriber for 8 years. He also has a Yahoo! Small Business account for his website and has a paid Flickr account. He also participates in Yahoo! Answers. Sadly, Andrew said something on Yahoo! Answers that Yahoo! feels violated their TOS...
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ianmorrisApr 14, 2007
my dad didn't watch his mouth on yahoo answers. now i have to use my old email account rather then my account with a custom domain name
celerityfmApr 14, 2007
good post, I have a few yahoo groups I'm an owner/moderator on that I've forgotten about.. need to remove myself from those!! Not that I give a s**t about my yahoo account....... then again I do have FLICKR, blargh.PSI actually did get a free ipod (4g 20gb) from the original get a free ipod website :P
mformikeApr 14, 2007
jeez speaking of Yahoo! i havent heard that old slogan in forever, ya know the YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOO!!!!
rovertlyApr 14, 2007
Yeah, this is why Yahoo! sucks. Try Google instead.
burtonbeApr 14, 2007
@EnterDaMatrixThanks for the info. Some other things that paid Yahoo mail has is (1) "addressguard," which is the ability to arbitrarily add temporary e-mail addresses that forward to your mail account, and (2) desktop sync software that handles all calendars, appointments, etc. I haven't been able to find other syncing software that works as well and completely... paid or not.I poked around my gmail account and couldn't find the equivalent functionality. I'd love it if I could switch; gmail's interface and calendar are superior IMO to yahoo's (no sync-able notes however). One of the only reasons why I still have my yahoo mail account is because I've had the address for so long. Switching is a pain. Now if I yahoo could just offer secure IMAP access, that would be sweet.Thanks for the reply buddy.
pyloffApr 17, 2007
You sir are exactly what I don't understand... 15,000 posts what the crap were you talking about. It couldn't have been that important. I'm sure your superior attitude carried you through the rough parts.Oh and Ludjer there are many people who think you are a moron.
pyloffApr 17, 2007
Well I'm sure they would ponder this, however... You are barely literate. Maybe you should ponder that.
catlikeApr 27, 2008
This is why my Yahoo answers account is not connected to anything else."posted content that broke their ambiguous and gray Terms of Service."I could not agree with this any more. There is a "chatting" violation after all. Instead of going after the real annoyances they delete people for chatting and other harmless things. He lost a lot and I hope that Yahoo! fixes it so that this kind of thing cannot happen in the future. I wonder what he said that was so offensive? I'm sure that it was blown out of proportion.
juktmicronicsJun 23, 2008
Funny. I refuse to connect ANYTHING important with my Yahoo account, or for that matter, any free account. In fact, the only reason I still HAVE a Yahoo account is that I belong to a writers' group that in organized within Yahoo Groups, and I want to keep everything related to that separate my "serious" email account.I love my ISP.
juktmicronicsJun 23, 2008
Allahuakbar has a point. Punishment seems to be selective on YA. And it has boards devoted to things that don't lend themselves well to the Q&A format YA insists on. Hence, there will be "questions" like "Why are Jews so much more pleasant to be around than Christians?" (This was an actual question, btw) that are CLEARLY not seeking knowledge but are pretexts for insulting people and egging on others to join in. If you aren't a Christian, just substitute anything that describes YOU in the question, and tell me how it's a legitimate question. I find it bigoted, myself. Nothing wrong with praising a group of people, but leave it at that. Comparisons are odious.
juktmicronicsJun 23, 2008
Sunshinelife, I recognize the "Don't Be Evil" from the corporate website. If you read Yahoo's mission statement (which seems to be designed for people at a fourth-grade reading level), and then go to YA, you'll see disparities all over the place. I don't think the people running YA even know what Yahoo's stated mission is.
juktmicronicsJun 23, 2008
Sally00, I know what it's like. I don't bother much with YA anymore. They never killed off my account but I wasn't going to wait around. I'd gotten one too many senseless violations. It's a question of customer service, and on YA, customer service consists solely of canned responses. That's bad.
juktmicronicsJun 23, 2008
Catlike, Yahoo won't fix it unless the sponsors complain. From what I read, YA is profitable (how wouldn't they be? They don't spend any money on CS reps!) but unless they imporve their customer service, it will lose customers in the long run. Someone will come up with a better mousetrap.
ludjerOct 12, 2008
Pylofff who are you?? you must really have some issueswho all think that im a moron pls