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How common is the practice of?

blocking people that offer dissenting viewpoints from answering or commenting? This seems to me a sign of weakness and bias.

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  • 2 years ago

    How common on what scale? It's very common in certain sections of Yahoo Answers, and less common in others. I'm not sure what your question is exactly.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    I don't know the stats, but I would hope it's a minority. I honestly try and answer always with honesty and no hostility, and I've been blocked.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Get used to it. We get all kinds of characters on here.

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