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- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Tons of suggestions were deleted yesterday. I can't blame them. They were flooded with hate comments in response to that story about them imitating digg, and each one was voted up to the top. I revisited the page a couple hours later, and they had cleaned up. On the autos board, it looked like an entire ~5 hour block of "suggestions" was just gone, probably including a few legit suggestions among the thousands of duplicated and highly voted complaints. Future suggestions were banned from using the word "digg".
- ddd7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14this was a suggestion that would improve Yahoo!
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Psychometry: hurry home, tiger... your dinner's ready.
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8hmm if Digg had a suggestions feature, I would suggest adding a PM feature.. just a thought.
also, direct link to Yahoo Suggestions:
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=autos
(didnt see it in the article) - shark72, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Reality check here: the suggestion he added was:
"Yahoo! E-mail - please improve the spam filters - too much spam gets through"
Yahoo! has been providing webmail for several years now. They know pretty much as much as anybody knows about what the spam wars are like, and they're probably already throwing a lot of people (and money) at the problem -- as much as is allowed for the free service they run. If you're still getting too much spam -- well, that's what the spam wars are like. The anti-spam guys improve their techniques, the spammers improve their techniques, and so it goes.
In other words, it's a pretty useless suggestion. He complained that it had gotten deleted after it had nine votes. Well, the spam problem won't be fixed whether 9 or 19 or 90 or 900 other people also vote for the suggestion. Yahoo! already knows there's a huge war with spammers going on, because *they are on the front lines fighting it*.
It was removed with "Suggestion is not actionable by the owners of this Suggestion Board." That sounds like a stock answer and probably isn't the most appropriate, but I think the message is clear here: Yahoo!'s been fighting the spam wars; they're fighting them today, and they'll be fighting them tomorrow. Posting "get better at fighting spam" suggestions may be cathartic, but it's not helpful. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@dtfinch:
Someone grabbed a screen for posterity: http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/14-205134L/1431/gif/02/2007/img4/glowfoto
It was one of the funnier backfires I've ever seen. I wish I had thought to check the suggestions board soon after. - abid786, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Information technology does not suck :|
- Haax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There isn't a "Yahoo! Mail" Suggestion Board. Chances are he posted in Autos, or something unrelated to email. That's what they mean by "Suggestion is not actionable by owners of this Suggestion Board, therefore we are removing it."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4they are deleting spam. that's good.
- nightcreeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41. His suggestion is incredibly weak, obvious. What the hell did expect? A friggen medal? If you act like a bitch you get slapped like a bitch
2. Y! Mail doesnt have a suggestion board, so it probably wasn't going to get to the mail group.
3. This story had nothing to do with the merits of Y! Mail. Please don't suggest using gmail. Nobody really cares if you like gmail. - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's the most idiotic suggestion ever.
It's not like Yahoo wants to deliver spam in people inoboxes, and they do their best to catch all the spam. No one is perfect, and suggesting that is like telling your wife: "You know, you should be younger".
Now, if he would have suggested some ways to reduce the spam, like new algorithms, then yes, it would make sense. - DivideOverflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Perhaps the suggestion was deleted because it was blatantly obvious? I suspect the suggestion was posted just because he/she knew it would be deleted. I imagine just before it was deleted by a Yahoo employee, it solicited a collective "o rly?" from everyone unfortunate enough to read it.
Not that I support Yahoo, but come on. . find something better than this to write about. If a LEGITIMATE suggestion was deleted, I would feel differently. - cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Suggesting Yahoo! improve their email spam filtering on the Yahoo! Autos Suggestion board. Ehhh, ok. Hey, why not? Well, maybe because its the WRONG ***** BOARD.
- tokyomonster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Someone suggest they stop deleting suggestions.
- gmprunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agreed. He made a really lame comment, and frankly I honestly would have deleted it if I were in the Yahoo! employee's position.
- shark72, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"This one was a potential suggestion that could have helped Yahoo improve."
I'm pretty sure that Yahoo! already knows that spam is a huge problem. The statistics are that something like 90% of all email traffic is spam now. - PointGuard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmmm...I wonder why...
- seoul_scurry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is lame... and marked as lame.
- drzeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly. The comment got deleted because it was off-topic in one of those non-mail suggestion boards. This isn't newsworthy.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google manages to do it. I get 2,200 spam messages per month straight in the SPAM box. I never even see them. I get about 1 a month on average that gets through to the inbox. NEVER get a false positive. I got a couple about 2 years ago but not since Gmail really got going.
Eric Wilson - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"""""It's better than Google's support of the drug and child sex trade in Latin America...""""""
Are you going to site anything on that? Orkut they found something and they helped authorities. Are you referring to something else?
Eric Wilson - skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I knew they would make the "D" word a profanity.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Heres a good suggestion:
Fix your ***** Spam Filter on your email.
I had 40 spam emails when I woke up this morning, I deleted all of them, when I got back from work this afternoon, I had 90.
Seriously what the *****? - metafore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Can you access Yahoo! mail with POP3? If so, you could just open a gmail account (which now allows you to send/receive from your other pop mail accounts). Their spam filter would allow you to manage it better.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288
ps - please don't delete my suggestion ;p - papaschlumpf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0rofl
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Suggestion: Yahoo should improve all their features until they are better than Google's. There. Ground breaking suggestion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yahoo is to the internet as aol is to internet access. the only people who use yahoo are the people who don't know any better
- scrag10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2lets hope the good ones don't
- neuralzen, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Yahoo has a lot of problems, and their morals as a company are horrible; selling out dissident bloggers in China...I mean what's next? "Oh, we want to expand to Rwanda and their government has been demanding the IP of some pesky bloggers seeking aid from the slaughter, so we sent them the list. That will be a nice profit when it pays off". Barstards.
- charredhui, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The submitter posted his suggestion to the my.yahoo.com suggestion board, which is not responsible for mail. His suggestion was deleted because he posted it to the wrong board. However, going over all the boards, there doesn't currently seem to be a correct board for that kind of suggestion. Yahoo can be blamed for not having a suggestion board for all of it services yet, but I don't think it should be unfairly blamed for deleting posts because somebody can't figure out the suggestion site.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2It's better than Google's support of the drug and child sex trade in Latin America...
- DiggChainey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3I especially liked the suggestion that they should just hire the developers that make http://Pligg.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Mirror: http://www.shoutpost.com/read/digg/2518/yahoo-suggestions-is-deleting-suggestions
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Don't blame Yahoo! on your spam issues. In my years of expirence I've picked up a keen nugget of information. Everytime you sign up for a site or service, or join a group that asks for your E-Mail, they will automatically sell your e-mail to spammers. Simple solution, start 2 e-mail accounts, one to for personal/business corresponance, and another one to sign up to sites with. I have both a hotmail account and an .edu account from my college, so I use my hotmail one for registering things, and guess what it gets like 30 spam emails a day. I've never once given my .edu email out to anyone besides my boss, friends and family, and the only spam I get on that account is the crap my grandma forwards to me.
- KroseHoneyLips, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0They better delete that shot. I'd would've been all over their asses
- webtickle, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1I understand that they deleted tons of other suggestions but they should have left the legitimate ones. This one was a potential suggestion that could have helped Yahoo improve.
- Codename, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Yahoo, is garbage for the last time, all they do is copy and use the same source for everything they have. IT SUCKS.
- webtickle, on 10/12/2007, -20/+6Checkmate0, I have no clue what you are talking about. If you want to message me, please email me. My email can be found on my profile page.
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Webtickle :)
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