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? asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 3 years ago

How do I file a reprimand against yahoo answers?

I had an answer that claimed it violated community guidelines. I filed an appeal but it was denied. BUT my answer in no way shape or form violated the guidelines.

I read the guidelines and my answer followed it perfectly.

So where do I go to file another appeal until they give up and realize they were wrong?

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  • 3 years ago

    Basically you can't. Your case illustrates what is a common suspicion here; that the people who run the Yahoo Answers appeal system are

    1) Doing so part-time, or maybe even as punishment.

    2) Don't really care.

    3) Speak English as a second language and don't always understand what they are passing judgement upon.

  • 3 years ago

    Don't bother . This has happened to me many times .

    I think bots run the system and not an actual person.

    One time I got a violation twice for the same answer ! The first time it was approved ,

    the second time it was denied !

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    What I do is use the alternate appeal form on the Help menu I just click on help menu on the spoke wheel and then Contact Us. Then you click on Contact a Yahoo Specialist. You fill out the appeal information and submit it. Some you win and some you lose. You will get a reply back and they will really ask the same information over again. Just reply to them and submit. It does work so don't listen to anyone who says it doesn't I just got back three approved appeals from them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    You cant once the Appeal is Denied the Decision is Final there is no way to Appeal a 2nd time Appeals can only be Done once

  • kswck2
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Just forget about it. There is no real system to file an appeal-that actually works honestly. The YA boards are broken.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    just ignore

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Depends on where YOU are located. There is NO Yahoo Appeals Board to contact, No one knows the email address.

    The Yahoo answers teams no longer exist. Verizon n ow owns Yahoo and YA. If you have copyright violation or theft of intellectual property claim, You can contact the following, BTW, i HAVE done this in the in 2009, but iw was far more comicated than someone copying and pasting my answer. I won my case, Yahoo terminated someone's email account. Terminated, NOT susnded the email account. You have NO IDEA WHO reported your question or answer or where they live or their real life name, and they may have been in trasit between legal jurisdictions.

    "...NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT

    Yahoo respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Yahoo may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Yahoo's Copyright Agent the following information:

    an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;

    a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

    a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

    your address, telephone number, and email address;

    a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

    a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

    Yahoo's Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

    By mail:

    Copyright Agent

    c/o Oath Holdings Inc.

    701 First Avenue

    Sunnyvale, CA 94089

    By phone: (408) 349-5080

    By fax: (408) 349-7821

    By email: copyright@yahoo-inc.com..."

    https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/utos/...

    That's for Yahoo USA. if you are in the I,k, or Inda or Australia, you need to to check THAT Yahoo terms of service of contract. for how to contact the law firm Yahoo has on retainer for those kinds of claims...

    Some people will NOT give up. because they KNOW they are right, DESPITE what Yahoo or Verizon may say..

    Yahoo and Verizon are publicly owned businesses, They are NOT Privately owned. i OWN Verizon stock, so I am very minor owner of Verizon. However, I am NOT a paying Verizon customer.

    Yahoo, Verizon and Oath inc are NOT legally liable for what they host on YA, and you AGREED to a legally binding contract, We ALL did that.

    Disclaimer: I am NOT a lawyer or paralegal.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    What I do is use the alternate appeal form on the Help menu Just click on help on the spoke wheel and then Contact Us. Some you win and some you lose. It does work so don't listen to anyone who says it doesn't.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Welcome to the club, just grin and move on. There are things more important than that

  • 3 years ago

    Right here.

    State your case, and I'll render judgment.

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