Carbonized Blog

OK so after failing to get my host to remove my fake login page RSA decided to try and bully me into removing it. I refuse but to save hassle I have redesigned the page as can be seen here. And here is the content of their email to me:

RSA , an anti-fraud and security company, is under contract to assist Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo!”) in preventing or terminating online activity that appears to target, or may potentially target, Yahoo! users as potential fraud victims.

We have been made aware of a page opened on your behalf in order to warn Yahoo users from Phishing scams.

We must insist on behalf of the Yahoo! Corporation that you remove that page from your site. The site poses a copyright infringement on the Yahoo! Brand.

Well at least one anyway. Today I received an email from Yahoo! saying my account had been reinstated on Yahoo! Answers despite their previous one saying they had reviewed my case and decided not to reinstate. Now I hope they ignore my email about deleting my answers lol.

Another day another email from Yahoo! Answers saying one of my answers has been selected as best. Not bad going so far. I’ve had two answers chosen as best since Yahoo! ‘suspended’ my account from Yahoo! Answers. Oh well since Yahoo! wants to get petty I’ve decided to get petty as well (yes I know I should take the high road but stuff ‘em). Anyway I just emailed them and told them to delete all 111 answers I have supplied to Yahoo! Answers along with the 19 that were chosen as best.

So Yahoo finally got back to me after I emailed saying that I thought suspension for a first offence was harsh and here is their response.

We appreciate your inquiry about your suspension from Yahoo! Answers and/or the deactivation of your Yahoo! ID. We reviewed your case, and decided that your account is not eligible for reinstatement.

Unfortunately, you will not be able to recover any information within this account. Should you decide to continue using Yahoo! products in the future, we hope that you will comply with our Yahoo! Terms of Service and any product-specific guidelines.
Isn’t that nice of them. No warning just instant ban. And they still have yet to tell me exactly which rule it is I broke since I cannot find anything when I went through their guidelines or Terms and Conditions.

Just another reason why Yahoo! Answers is a waste of web space.

Today I received three emails from Yahoo! Answers. The first informed me that my account had been suspended but no reason was given in this email. The second email informed me that a post I had made was against their terms and so had been deleted. The post in question was in response to someone asking about downloading music. My answer was

I’m going to assume you mean tracks you should be paying for. Emule is brilliant for obscure tracks or one of songs but I’d recommend Bit Torrent for downloading full albums.
yet I cannot find a single rule this post broke. I have emailed them asking but have yet to receive a reply.

The funniest thing is that 4 hours later I receive a third email from Yahoo! Answers. This time to inform me that, yet again, one of my answers had been chosen as the best answer. I believe that makes 17 best answers for me so far out of about 100 I think. I say I think because my suspension also includes the removal of my Yahoo! Answers profile. So once again Yahoo show how totally stupid and incompetent they really are.

I’ve updated my Yahoo chat clients page as it was seriously out of date. A few of the clients were YCHT only so no longer worked. I have also updated Gaim to show it’s new name, Pidgin. As always if you know of a client that isn’t listed feel free to email me with the details.

I have just added a Javascript gallery script to the adult smileys page so you can see all the smileys including the ones Google objected to me showing.

Just recently I’ve been playing with Yahoo answers. If you ask me half the questions are asked by people to stupid/lazy to use a search engine. I just visited there now and the main question on the first page is How often should you change the oil in your car? another is Who sings ‘ I’m a freedom fighter.. here i go’?.

And the moral of the story? If you don’t want to look a total moron learn to use a search engine.