Yahoo Answers Experiment Terminated

Yahoo Answers: So it has come to this…

July 14th, 2008

After only a few short, glorious days in the sunshine of other people`s outrage, Artemis Jones has had his Yahoo Answers account permanently deactivated.

In case you didn`t know, Artemis has been asking deliberately peculiar questions on the Yahoo community forum known as “Yahoo Answers”

It might have been the confessions of violent crimes, it might have been his indications of bestiality; it may even have been the suggestion that a young lady call her MySpace account “Mental4Kocque” -whatever, it was, the Yahoo Community have decided that they can no longer live peacefully alongside Artemis Jones.

And so it is with a heavy heart that I must wind down the Yahoo Answers experiment.

Fear not, you can read all of Artemis Jones`Yahoo Adventures on his webpage on www.gophuramungus.com or via this RSS link (which still works, for some reason)

Here`s how it happened:

Artemis logged onto his account on Saturday the 12th of July, 2008 to find it had been suspended.

He immediately appealed the decision, saying:

Dear Yahoo.

I am disgusted by your decision to suspend my account. I have not, to the best of my considerable knowledge, violated any of your so-called “community guidelines”. Please unsuspend my account immediately or face my wrath.

Artemis Jones, Professor of Psychology, Falmouth University

And the response from Yahoo Answers:

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Answers.

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.

Once an account is disabled for a violation of the Terms of Service, the
subscriber to the account will lose the ability to log in and access the
account and its contents (including email and content stored with any
other Yahoo! service). The account also will not be reactivated.

Should you choose to create a new Yahoo! account, we invite you to read
the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Yahoo! Community Guidelines to help
ensure your new account is not deactivated.

Yahoo! Terms of Service:

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

Yahoo! Community Guidelines:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines.php

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Answers. Your case number for this
issue is 50930220. Please reference it in all future communication about
this particular issue.

Regards,

Liza Nash

Yahoo! Customer Care

50930220

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Bitch.