What’s happening to my image?
Following last week’s announcement, the transition to the new Yahoo! profiles is now taking place on Answers. You will start noticing changes in your image display options. What does this mean? From now on, instead of importing your displayed image from Yahoo! 360, Answers will use the image from your new Yahoo! profile.
For those who like to display multiple images, keep in mind that only one image can now be displayed in all of Yahoo! Services. Yahoo! 360 users should make sure that the image displaying there is the one they want to show throughout the Yahoo! network, and update it if necessary.
To ensure that your Answers display image is the one you want, we recommend you go to http://profiles.yahoo.com now and activate your new profile. Once you’re there, you’ll be asked to verify some information that you’ve previously shared with Yahoo!, and to select the image you’d like to share with the Answers community.
If you have never used other Yahoo! services and haven’t activated your profile yet, your image will show up as the “Gray Face.”
For those of you who display an Avatar on Answers – don’t worry. This won’t change. Both Avatars and nicknames will continue to remain the same on Answers.
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Wow, this is a very bad idea. Why is yahoo universalizing yahoo answer with the other yahoo services? So, in other words, the same image I use for my Y!A profile will also appear in places like Flickr? What about people such as myself that operate under a bit of a different style in answers than in the rest of the yahoo network? I really feel uncomfortable with the people on my yahoo profile seeing the image I use for yahoo answers.
So basically the Yahoo 360 will be done away with?
Excuse me but how exactly do you put the yahoo profiles picture on here I made one but there is no link as far as I know
I haven’t had the option of using my 360 image for at least 7 months, since my 360 page and all access to any 360 pages mysteriously disappeared. My *answers* profile doesn’t give me an option to use the photo that I have in my Y!Profile…. lemme know when I’ll have the ability, like everyone else, to use an image other than a cartoon avatar. Mkay?
How come the updates and corrections to the new Yahoo Profiles don’t transfer to the Public Profile on Yahoo My Movies??
The new profiles are a JOKE. They’re so bare bones that they serve absolutely no important function whatsoever (besides providing our Y!A avatar). Please give us something better than this, or improve these profiles, and soon… because what we’ve got now is an insult.
This is nothing to complain about.
If you don’t like it, don’t use it. If you’re uncomfortable with your photo, or if the profile format is too plain, there are other formats out there I’m sure you’ll like, such as myspace and facebook.
You guys are taking this way too seriously.
Wow, I don’t like this. I had to crop the picture I wanted to use for the new yahoo profile in order to have it uploaded. Now it does not look right(most of the image had to be cut). What is your reason for this change?
This is ***STUPID***.
You guys don’t realize that Yahoo! Answers is doing this for our best interests do you? Do you really think they purposefully want to do something to make the site worse and, as stated by ZER0 C00L, give us an insult?
im confused
it does appears as all icons will appear the same, there was option to use icon for selected profile only as well as for all, this may be not good for some avoiding trolls, and in course, that all users may end up reverting to generic icons or avatars, if option like mybloglog is applied, it would help options for users:
Update
● All my Yahoo! profiles
○ MyBlogLog only
also reminder that icon is squarely crop cut, son no longer allowed to use tall images, or full avatar pic,
image are only jpg, would be nice to have animated gif, or png, or swf, someday,
have fun, and condolences to family and friends of Natasha Richardson, ♡
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This is just another way Y/a is censoring the material here and intimidating members.
Anyone with an opinion that differs from y/a monitors are subject to disciplinary action for merely voicing their opinion.
Some people express themselves with graphics. (ie: numerous pics and avatars that reflect their attitude without using words) We all know the yamsters will exile you for saying the “wrong” thing. This is apparently another means of quelling dissention.
That or they’re just trying to save a little bandwidth, speed up the site and perhaps cut the costs of this “free for all”.
regards, Doc
the yahoo of mine is good that i cant stop joining ur beautiful and wonderful mail
It sounds like a government move. I do not like the non-option in this change. What I answer on Y/A is not the business of my social network.
these new grey faces are scary. I liked the grey shadowy silouette better.
VERY CONFUSED !!!
Why don’t you start fixing your BS based Community Moderation system? I think profiles are the least of everyone’s worries. Read the forum and read previous blogs and you will see that your system is a joke. You are basically letting the inmates run the asylum.
This is all because some stupid cow bought it up as a suggestion in the YA forum!
They obviously don’t wish to impliment another idea that was put up in that SAME forum – an abuse button for avatars
Most of us ARE doing the right thing.
thanx for informing us, i don’t change my image i always use my avatar so i guess it won’t change, thanx anyway
For two years I’ve not been able to use my 360 image on Yahoo Answers and it still does not recognize it. I click on the link that says to retreive your 360 page and it takes me to that page but won’t link to the Y/A profile. My only options remain to use the blank or the avatar that I created just so I don’t have a blank.
Once about two years ago I received a form letter that Yahoo was aware of this issue with some users and was working to resolve it..but it hasn’t been resolved in all this time. I do not see an option yet to put a profile photo.
OMGGGGGGG like is that really like like like like omg!!!!!!!!
ahhahha i’m so funneh
yet too cool (H)
Does it come in any color other than gray?
A small collection of grey avatars to chose from would be nice for those who want to blend in but not completely. For example, smiley, neutral, frowny, male profile, female profile.
I don’t see that most people have filled out the new profile anyway so this is not going to change much. I think it was a good move to do away with the old profiles as they were just used as troll food. Notice that Yahoo employees almost never have an actual photo or any revealing info. Real photos should be disabled except on personals because there are plenty of people who are still not bright enough to recognize the dangers.
Thanks for the heads up, Yahoo person.
When I go to ‘Edit My Info’ from my Y!A profile it has the option still to use my 360 Avatar. Is it really using my Yahoo Profile picture? And if so, when will the wording be changed to match the new source of the avatar?
I give advice in the Yahoo products section and would like to know what someone should do right now if they want a photo for an avatar. Load it to the new profile only or load it to both the new profile and 360? How will we know when the transition is completed?
What a stupid idea!
I think its so simple that it is confusing people. If you want to “act” different in yahoo answers make a separate email account for each–personally i act the same everywhere so I could care less
This sucks… My image is now too square.
this is twitarded. >:(
I think this is so ridiculous idea….
I love Yahoo 360 Image… Please don’t change the system
yahoo, this is not a good idea…. yahoo should be transitioning to become more flexible not stuck to one picture.. having one picture..it’s like going to different occasions with the same attire…
As long as I can figure out how to put up a picture, no problem.
omg this is so irritating…
Guys please leave Yahoo Answer
we’ll go to Answerbag…
What was the reason for this change? The new profile is so plain compared to the 360 profile. You could see our avatar & any pictures we uploaded & flicker pictures. So now since there is no link to our 360 profile, are they doing away with the 360 profiles & what’s the point of the flicker profiles now? This new profile makes a crop the picture & now it looks stretched & we don’t have the option to have full length pictures. I just don’t get it… Why did they change it & make it worse?
THIS IS STUPID YAHOO. STUPID STUPID STUPID. I like to keep answers separate from other Yahoo things. I LIKE my avatars rectangular NOT tiny SQAURES. THIS IS STUPID. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Change for the sake of change. I quite liked having seperate avatars.
What a LAME idea!
What a mess
Do you respect our privacy and right to decide about OUR PROFILES at all????
Why do i have to drag my ID everywhere, without possibility to have diff. pics where I WANT to have them??
Bad, so bad a idea. My icon avi picture is recognizable on Y/A. It’s not your generic Yahoo picture. It’s a icon picture that very,very familiar to others.
People were made that I changed my flickr icon, so to do so here. “Not very funny DR Jones.” (IJ & tToD)
Did have a copycat problem there. They couldn’t fix it, to my knowledge. Luckily, the slander they tried to do was seen as such. Legally, very, very BAD! They moved on to somebody else. Their admin. in the same group as me. D’X
So, can we use our Avatar for our picture instead?
In my own opinion and personal preference, I would have preferred using my Yahoo! 360 image. I am sure I am not the only one so I hope you reconsider and let us make use of Yahoo! 360 again.
What are the benefits of this transaction?
I’m using an avatar and it disappeared today. i followed the instructions for profile and 360 and nothing changed. What gives? Seems like a change for no other reason than to make things difficult with no benefit to anyone.
what have u done just leave it the way it was this new way sux
this sucks
Is it really a good idea to limit user options?
meh! what’s the point of changing yahoo 360 to yahoo profile!?
Seems to me that a lot of people are confused about this, so why the heck are ya’ll changing stuff? We like things the way they are!!
Profiles is a loser. 360 is a winner and it always was. But, do what you must Yahoo!
This really sucks. I spent a lot of time arranging my 360 profile and suddenly Yahoo yanks it out from under me. The old 360 was a place that I could show users who I was and create a “Room” of my likeness that made the visit enjoyable and entertaining for people who visited. This doesn’t surprise me. This is the same way they operate when they just yank everyone’s accounts. That’s why I don’t trust Yahoo with my true personal information. Go ahead and yank this account too.
this is really lame.
Yahoo Answers was great just the way it was, this just makes me slightly upset. I’ll wait to use Yahoo Answers again until my picture shows back up
I don’t think this is necessary!
I am very unhappy with the so-called changes to my avatar, 360 link and pictures. My beloved kitty avatar went grey and I had to upload my kitties back so I could have my avatar back. And my picture needed to be cropped into a square, cutting off some of my picture. Questions I’m answering show me with everyone else’s avatar except for mine. With all the technology available why can’t changes be made without touching everyone’s profiles, pictures, and links? I’d think that would be possible. If these changes can’t be made without messing with profiles, changes shouldn’t have been made yet. Work out glitches first, Yahoo!
Why does it have to be a square??
Can’t we choose a better colour scheme? make pic’s bigger? have an inbox? upload music? photo sharing? Come on….!!!!
I hate when they change things:[
i don’t like this at all… no matter how i crop my avatar, it comes out cloudy… i prefer using the 360 page for my avatar…
hey what happened to yahoo 360 ? its disappeared and all my contacts are gone , my friends on my 360 page i do i find them again ?
and how will i make my new profile the same nice wall paper of my 360 page ? its just plain and booring.
can anyone answer this ?
gray avatars…no facial expressions or gender that all look alike..sounds like an alien invasion to me
Annoying.
How I wish to display myself to family and friends is quite different than how I wish to display myself on Y!A.
Poor Idea. You will have a situation like Facebook had thousands complaining about the new profile page they are now taking steps to rectify. It makes sense that people may want to use different profile pics to represet the particular network they are on.
Sorry Yahoo not your finest hour…
You know what? These new updates SUCK. Try actually doing something USEFUL. You just deleted 360 without even giving a flying crap that people had no idea it was going to be gone. Try WARNING people first!!!!
This whole new profile thing is a terrible idea. Could you hire people who know what they are doing please?
this is a result from those stupid avatars that stretch when you answer a query and some jerks kept on scrolling and allowing their ‘elongated’ avatars to show… i knew this was going to happen.. it’s those dingbats who abuse the system who ruin it for us who weren’t!
it’s just an avatar folks, get over yourselves.
no more of that ‘elongated’ or ’scrolling’ avatars! yes, i thought that was a stupid idea the first time i seen it a couple of years ago and folks were just answering questions just so they could have their image seen…. some of those images were as long as a page!
what a waste of bandwidth.
Well, I agree with Jim ((C.A.B.)). I don’t like this AT ALL. Why the heck should we have to use the same photos on Y!A as we use in these new “Yahoo! profiles.” You know, I think that really sucks. I think that we should have the freedom to keep everything on Y!A SEPERATE from ANYTHING ELSE. I mean, what if we want a little privacy? What if we’d rather not have people knowing that we’re the exact same person who posted such and such on their profile.. Well, you know what I mean. Helloooo! Privacy violation!!!
Also, these will be put of Flickr?? NO thank you!
I actually kind of like this idea.I never use my 360 page and the only reason I created on was because I had to use my display pic from there.Good job guys!! I jsut wish you could display more pictures on your profile though.
Victory
This is a very bad idea.
Forgot to add that I like that you can upload a .PNG file,most of my pics and stuff are int hat format and 360 wouldn’t let me upload them.
I’m with the first guy (jim (c.a.b))…I do NOT want my stuff out there for people to see unless I allow it. If I choose to have a profile I can play around with…fine. Give ME the option to allow or not allow others to see it.
I just tried sending Yahoo feedback….and wouldn’t you know….that doesn’t work.
If anyone can screw something up it’s Yahoo…..only they can make something a pain in the ass, or make it WAY harder than it has to.
Who’s the genius that came up with the idea to make all my contacts permissible to see my profile?…and…not give me a way to make changes to that?
It’s ridiculous and it pisses me off to high heaven.
Stupid-ass Yahoo morons!!
I don’t like the fact that I had to crop my pic….. now you cannot see the full pic…… what a dumb idea this was…………
I no longer have a 360 and the profile that I did get is screwed up.. Who’s this Axel L guy?
i like that….cz i dnt to show my pic…its good.
This is a really dumb and confusing idea. Why do they keep changing stuff which only makes Yahoo and all of it’s features more confusing, uninteresting, and just plain ugly?
Looking at the comments I can see this isn’t a popular idea.
I have an idea. Instead of restricting user options why not fix the bugs in Yahoo Answers? As in, why do I have to post my questions twice to get them to show up?
Also, why do I get those annoying little pop ups telling me I’ve misspelled something when I haven’t?
A lot of times I click on a button, like to answer a question, and nothing happens. I have to hit it again to get it to work.
Just when I thought Yahoo couldn’t screw up any further……
nice, sounds good
Bummer. The 360 page allowed for a little creativity and individualism. The new profiles are pretty ‘basic’ to say the least. And even that’s tolerable, but I do not appreciate, yet again having to bother my contacts & friends to re-connect with me. I feel like a pest already. What was the purpose of the 360 drop anyway?
I really do not like this AT ALL!!! Please Yahoo!, switch it back!!!
This wouldn’t happen to be some of the changes that this person in Washington D.C. has declared?
Why do I only have the option to crop my Avatar, why can’t I show the whole thing?
WHAT THE HONKERS MAN!?
Leave it to Yahoo to screw up again. Of course they made it easier for the reporter trolls to see you everywhere you go. This way they can make exactly the way they want it, with Yahoo’s blessings. As far as the pics, guess I’ll just have to leave it grey. So much for adding a little personality.
isnt using pictures from your yahoo profile already an option?
this is a horrible idea!!!!!
I noticed that many are asking……. You have to have 1,000pts (level 3), prior to your Yahoo 360 image being available on Yahoo Answers.
Once again Yahoo has came up with a stupid Idea! Go back to the 360 photos. Some times i change my image on Y/answer 4 or 5 times a session. Whats wrong with you guys?
Just one more reason to justify why I have stopped using any Yahoo sites anymore.
You continue to ‘update’ and add ‘new’ things..but you don’t fix the problems in what exists.
Funny how this is the first time in 3 weeks I have checked in to Answers…and yet, nothing has changed.
I wonder if the advertisers on your sites are aware of the users dissatisfaction..
I HATE what Yahoo has done. My avatatr doesn’t work on Yahoo’s LOUSY profiles!And whatbif we want out profiles hidden? We can’t use our avatars! YAHOO you’d better change back b ecuase your so-called improvements are FAILURES.It’s time for you all to grow up and face some facts.Yahoo has lots of flaws.
i think that this is probably a better idea overall [i really don't know what the hell the other people are so mad about], i really dreaded using Y!360 and i just have it for the picture
but is picture cropping necessary? that’s my only complaint =[
I am tired of yahoo changes that have no benifit at all to the answers users.
I dislike that yahoo took away “our” creativity on the size and shape of our avatar image.
This “cropping” feature that you have no choice but to use, greatly changes most users avatar image, including mine.
I am very displeased yahoo! I tired of things being great as they are and you “fix them” and it ruins the fun of yahoo answers.
Thanks for taking away yet another form of expression and uniqueness from yahoo answers users.
This is a very bad idea. I like 360 way better than this. I can see that majority of people are complaining and I do agree with them. I hope yahoo will take this into consideration and change back to 360. I would like if 360 would expand the “movies, music, interest” parts. They’re just link and to see what a person’s fav movie is you have to click the link. I wish you could just display everything without the need of clicking a link to know about someone.
Basically my point is change back to 360!! just improve 360 with more picture options you could put albums or something.
Taking away our option to use a photo for our avatar instead of your cartoon characters does not reflect well on the mentality of those who manage Yahoo.
I am confused. The image I have selected for Yahoo Profile does not show up in Y!A.
This is a very idea. Old one was better. I think, it should be changed to previous one
Can you please bring back the link to Yahoo360 in our profile pages? Thank you.
ya watev yall suspended my account over NOTHING and im not even gonna get it back…it took me FOREVER to get to level 2 im telling everyone NOT to go on yahoo answers
i did not understand nothing of this k,rap!
Don’t make us lose 360, everyone is using it, including Me! I’m taking a stand!
I’m warning you Yahoo, keep it up and you’re going to lose your customers. Change it back.
I do not know what’s going on &what is 360 profile
anyway’s? If they do not like waht you are doing I am with them! Are you realy changing my Avatar Images
I like mine the way it is. So tell me what going on?
This is just another horrible idea. Yahoo! Your really are sucking lately. How in the hell do you expect people to use your service if you take away and give them nothing. Tisk Tisk. bad yahoo …bad!!
This is so dumb. I like 360 way more then the Yahoo! Profiles. I liked having avatars that were tall so that the words and picture could be seen well. I do not like Yahoo! Profiles at all.
You can not blog on Yahoo! Profiles, and the pictures are small when they show up on Y!A. Please switch back.
My profile picture is being retarded. All it has done so far is turn on and off in the forum.
It was better as it was before, with the option to have a longer image but with the width controlled.
Please stop doing “upgrades” that “downgrade” the services offered.
Oh yes, the update is really working. Never touch a working system.
This sucks. Wh you have to change it? Don’t you see everybody else is mad? Plus the pictures barely show up. Evrything was fine till you guys decided to change it.
this is dumb change it
This really does stink. I want a certain picture used for my Y!Answers account, not everything else that is linked to Yahoo with a picture. This really sucks! Think about your users who keep you in business, not yourselves and just what you want!
This is a Horrible idea. Every Time people start fooling with something that already works – it screws it up for Every One! Look at what is happening to America after all the Promises Obama made – not one has been kept!
Peace to All and God Bless! Jane.
So Yahoo 360 is just GONE? I had all my pictures there and that was the only place i had them since I got my new computer! Just let me add my vote to the thousands that Yahoo has really screwed things up this time.
ha I don’t care ! HA!
This is ridiculous. Yahoo is making much more of a mess than anything. I miss my “tall” avatar and I hate having to use one single picture for everything.
Who thought this was a good idea???? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Maybe work on all the “coffee breaks” Y!A takes or the fact that questions don’t post when they shoud, or work on the fact that you sometimes have to click multpile times for something to submit.
I tried to upload my yahoo avatar but it didn’t work. I don’t understand why Yahoo! are making these changes, they aren’t making anything any better they’re just slowing down the system.
I don’t like this at all.
The new profile forces you to crop the image. I can’t upload it without having to take a HUGE chunk out of it. It looks awful. Plus, it takes longer.
The old format was so much easier and more convenient. This is another bad decision by the Yahoo team.
I am so confused with this new yahoo answers blog?
Can’t i just go back to the old one without pissing my pants?
i don’t have a problem with that
but i hate that you have to crop it to a square
can you make so we can use rectangels again
otherwise please allow us to use 360 images again
Anymore negative thoughts anyone has about Yahoo?
-.-
I don’t understand?
I think Yahoo is just fine the way it is!
Not sure that I am going to like this new update. I liked being able to go to my 360 from my YA profile.
I posted earlier, but I just noticed, your 360 isn’t gone…yet anyways. I went to mine and everything is still there, it just does not give you the option to use that photo for Y! Answers. I also went to my Flickr page and they don’t force you to use the same image. I just changed my Flickr picture to another one and it is different from my Yahoo Answers one, so no not everything is interlinked, at the moment anyways.
i don’t like this one bit!!
but how about this- make a compromise:
for those who wanna use the new way, let that be OPTIONAL
and for those who wanna use the other way, let that be OPTIONAL too
a compromise is a LOT better than fussing about it..
Suppose I’ll resurrect my defunct “Multiply” page,if possible…I’m no longer able to ask questions on Y/A,as I seem to be a favorite target of a few ne’er do wells and now,my safe haven 360 page,is evidently up for major and undesirable reconstruction or will be bulldozed?..Hope I’ve misinterpreted this…
I really don’t think this change is THAT bad. And isn’t it the thought that counts? That the Yahoo Team went through all this trouble to create something that they thought that we would benefit from? If they wanted they could shut Y!A down but they’re not are they? So I think we should cut them some slack, stop whining, and suck it up since we really don’t have a choice.
But I agree with what other people said about the image cropping. If you could fix that, that would be great. But if not, then that’s also okay I guess.
I have a pic on yahoo profiles but my avatar has still disappeared from YA. How can I make it appear? I don’t see an option that lets me pick a picture for YA when I go to profiles.yahoo.com
wow thats mega stupid
CHANGE IT BACK. WE DON’T NEED POINTLESS CHANGES YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I would like to put a JPEG picture or a moving animation
note the 360 link is no longer on answers profile, is now also replaced with profile link,
some users don’t realize their private info is open to public view cause of new html coded settings, the main profile is handy, as well mybloglog to access 360 and other sites,
users can also create yahoo geocities homepage to link to other bloggings and popular is twitter it is,
Ok i think you guys have been doing a great job. I haven treally experienced any bad difficulties the only thing i dont like is when it sais that yahoo answers is not available like right now for instance. But other than that keep up the good work!!! Love ya!
This is so completely STUPID AS HELL!
BOO!
I like 360!
dumb Yahoo…
i hate this thing, now i have to re-upload my pic.
wow yahoo, sometimes i swear to god your on something.
I’m noticing that I have to make my Yahoo Profile public if I want to use the picture as my avatar. I don’t think this was the case with my 360° Page. I could keep my 360° page private but still use the picture in Y!A.
If that is the case, I’m just going to put nothing meaningful in my Yahoo Profile except the picture which I need for Answers.
Yahoo, this was a very, very stupid move on your part.
Why are you deleting the 360s?
They’re just FINE.
It was fine the way it was, but now it’s dumb,
I have to crop a bunch of my picture out now, and it looks horrible.
The old format was better, you should go back to it, or I think you’ll lose a lot of users.
This is B.S. I want the old options back… this really sucks you know? You should have done a survey before making discussions that starts complains. What’s wrong with the old YA?
When I click on the link in this article it takes me to my profile. There is nothing to ‘activate’. This sucks.
I dont use these other things but this is really stupid. Sorry everyone else.
this is so weird!!!
Does yahoo answers realize what they are doing? Or how much work I have put in my poetry? I guess not
Otherwise my 360 pages would have been here
I have found things easier in 360 like inviting
commenting
so what does that mean? I have a “gray face” but had an avatar an have one on my profile. do I need to make another or what?
another glitch ,
you have to unhide user profile to use icon for answers, if you hide profile , icon is removed and says you don’t have profile, then all that shows is text, so…
I hate it! It makes you have to crop your photo and it just ruins a great picture which would look sooo much better on yahoo 360! Change it back please! It’s a REALLY stupid idea and I don’t see any efficiency in it, people use 360 waaay more than this stupid profiles thing.
One question… with this new profile, does that mean all the blogs I wrote on my 360 profile have been deleted/erased??
What are you all complaining about? This is just to save bandwidth, and because previous sites didn’t have enough usage they weren’t worth the money it takes to run one. Stop complaining.
While I do agree that the new profile is pretty bare bones, I believe this is a Beta version and will have more options in the future. As for the avatar crop, I’m fine with it, because most of my avatar’s are small anyway. And I always got tired of the really long avatars, because they looked more smushed than the smaller ones.
Just be glad they at least gave you a heads-up before doing this, or you might all have grey faces.
Load of crap
Seriously Yahoo, nobody likes the new format. Someone asked a question recently on Answers, saying “star if you want them to change it back to 360″ and it’s had like 200 stars so far.
Please change it back.
a very very bad idea..
i dont get it, so whatever!
just plain stupid. Yahoo should be ashamed for this.
This is the worst idea ever. Now all of my images are square and looks retarded. You guys could have least kept the option to have a not completely square photo.
UGH.
I would like to see my pic with the Yahoo Mail “built in” chat all I see is the Gray Face
that cool
how the heck am i going to be holy cow! w/o my pic!?!
blah………
bad bad idea…i liked the image i had before and i change the 360 image from time to time when it suites me to do so…i don’t like this at all. i may have to pull all my images from flickr and fold up my 360 and quit answers if you can’t go back to the other format.
NOW MY PIC IS BLURRY!! I HATE THIS! IT DOESN’T SHOW UP THE RIGHT WAY! they need to change it back!
This is so stupid. Y!A is making pointless adjustments to their site.
Why? It seems like a step down and also is making yahoo users unhappy. Can you explain to us why were are stuck with that, and can’t use 360 as well?
And why cant we upload pix any size we want?
It honestly sucks. :/
I hate it. this confuses me.
and can’t we just leave well enough alone??
These new profiles suck! Seeing that its our information that can now be seen on ALL Yahoo networks you would think we would at least have a say in that. Not to mention how boring and bland these profiles are. Ugh! Yahoo, what in the world were you thinking? I HATE these new profiles.
I display an avatar on Yahoo Answers and it has been changed to a gray face. I have followed the instructions on updating my profile, but still cannot get my avatar back. Only the gray face. What do I do now? HELP SOON PLEASE !!!
Why are you doing this? I had to crop so much of my picture and it looks awful!
I really don’t care as far as the picture thing goes. But i have to agree with one of the other posters. This letting the inmates run the asylum is crazy. Answers quality has gone down the commode sense this idea was enacted. There are to many hackers and virus writers on answers now giving bad information to these noobs and screwing up peoples computers. If this keeps on yahoo answers will have to be done away with because people will just stop coming here for reliable information. If this is not dealt with soon yahoo’s reputation will suffer. Answers will start to be known as the place where people go to get there computers torn up instead of fixed. If it keeps up the site will be put on the malicious list of bad sites. It will all be because of this self policing.
Ever heard the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”??????
I have to agree with richard cranium’s comment this morning… It’s now so much easier for the trolls to come out and about now. Thanks a lot!!
Wow, at first I figured I would just take the change and see where it was going. I just clicked on my profile from Answers and guess what? There for the whole world to see is my full name and town I live in. Not a very nice trick there guys. That is really pushing the edge of private information or at minimum warned us that it would be set that way. I will be finding a way to remove that information.
Are you kidding me? Yahoo 360 is better Now we get a profile with an empty page with nothing. WORST IDEA EVER ON YAHOO!
do you think if enough people complain they’ll change it back? this new system makes me VERY uncomfortable. it recomends adding people from my yahoo mail account…so i imagine IM being recommended to other people. and BELIEVE me. i don’t want ANYONE i know reading my questions. i use YA so i can ask personal things without having to confront a person i know. im half tempted to delete my account just to be safe.
I hate when Yahoo does this crap. Can’t they just leave it be???? ~SIGH~
This is one of Yahoo’s newest corruptions. Man, this sucks. I always liked the 360’s. Really, this is what Yahoo is worrying about. They should be worrying about these stupid trolls that report for no reason, rude answers, and lack of categories. Not try to update to something stupid. Man, I hope you either change your ways, or google buys you out.
I hate the gray face. just like how i hate your face
why oh why did Yahoo think this would be a good idea . lost 6 of my 8 friends on 360 my details, my background , great idea yeah can see from above everyone happy about this
why do you people in yahoo like to cause inconvenience among your subscribers?
we were all doing ok with our lives and you people just want to make it more difficult….
By the way. Personally’ I’m glad to see 360 go. I never got much out of it. About all there is there now is the sex crazy perverts that post pictures of themselves having sex. Do forget the prostitutes and the cam girls.
I hate that I had to crop my picture! This is the worst idea ever!
What the heck? Why must I crop my photo? I can’t get the whole picture of Axl Rose to be my avatar, because I had to cut down like half the photo. This is lunacy.
A company with the resources and technology of Yahoo can’t figure out a way to allow their users to have multiple images for the various services.
This is why Goliaths fall. They keep giving you less and less, and then a better company comes along and steals their fire. Bye Yahoo!, it was fun.
How about fixing all the glitches that happen on a daily basis instead of messing with something that was fine in the first place?!
Not a day goes by that there aren’t glitches on Answers and/or 360 and this is how you utilize your resources?
Personally I go to Polls and Surveys in Y!A, and NO ONE and I mean NO ONE likes the new change in that section, and I am unhappy too. Its a stupid idea and they know everyone hates the idea on what they did. Soon I bet they will realize the change wasn’t a good idea whatsoever. If Y!A took a poll if the community liked the change half would probably say no because everyone I see commenting hates the idea. Mostly everyone wants the old avatar change back. Like I said Yahoo! will soon realize on what they did wrong, but for now will just have to cope with the changes.
I’m sorry but this is utter BS. My “yahoo profile” has a pic of ME on it, because it’s for people to see and know about ME. While my Y!A avatar is of my children, because i am mostly in the Pregnancy and Parenting category.
I dont WANT to put my kids pics up on the yahoo profile, that page has nothing to DO W/THEM! I dont want MY pic on my Y!As page because im there to talk about pregnancy and/or parenting. thus my use of my children’s photo.
CONGRATS Yahoo! for making YET ANOTHER asinine choice. unbelievable.
Yahoo and all its products have become one of my largest sources of internet fustration. Gmail and multiply are looking better every day.
this is a lame decision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Will this make the system start working again?
When will you destroy our 360 pages?
Will we be given the chance to save info from them?
This Blows. Why exactly is it that you people can’t stop screwing with things, and just leave them as they are? I fail to see why in the hell I should suddenly be forced to have a new “Yahoo Profile”. The who idea reeks of face book which I think is a retarded idea in the first place. I don’t care if I can suddenly share more with people or not. If I want to share something about myself that should be up to me. I have my picture displayed on Answers because I think that if you are going to answer questions and often times make your opinions known, then you shouldn’t hide behind an Avatar. Whoever came up with this needs to find a hobby instead of screwing with all of us.
The Answers image I was using was linked from my 360 profile page. The image is too big to be accepted by the Yahoo Profile page so it can no longer be used for Answers unless I crop it. It is a work of art. To crop it is to alter it and to destroy the work of art.
Why did you do this?
Why did you fix something that wasn’t broken?
Instead of providing enhanced services, you have taken something away.
You took my Answers identity from me and are forcing me to create another one.
Why would you do that to people?
I first time new blog archive yes. I want image or blog ok. I am deaf yes. I still look for deaf usa world yes. I love chat or online email everyday yes. Thank You!!!
Well, that just sucks.
@Madison C: I can complain if I want to. That’s what this page is for.
I’m NOT fine with the avatar crop because my avatars are larger. Plus, it makes everyone conform to the same style, thus Yahoo is actually taking away the individuality of it’s users.
They did not give us a heads up before doing this, and it was a horrible decision.
I never use the yahoo frills. As soon as you get used to using them, Yahoo will change them all over again just to agrivate you. Honestly, they are almost getting as a bad as AOL, who can’t decide what programs they want, how you should learn them, or even care if people want them as long as it has the AOL name. I wonder if Yahoo hired AOL’s rejects.
huh?
I updated my profile, changed my permissions to anyone, and I still have gray face. help?
This is the dumbest thing you have ever done. Why break a good system?
i think this change was a really bad idea.
why couldn’t Yahoo just keep the use of our 360 images?
now i have to go through the hassle of changing mine, why did this have to be changed in the first place?
WONDERFUL!
Just another in a long line of bad ideas!
Well, i suppose that there are pros and cons to universalizing the pic; but i am not totally all for it… mostly because all i use is Y!A and 360.
The biggest issue remains the infamous glitches that prevent us from being able to use the site half of the time (like, as of now i’m stuck with a creepy grey smiley face because my info cannot be retrieved via my profile page *sighs* so i cannot update my photo/AV or choose anything at the moment.) IF those could be fixed (more often?) that would be stellar.
I think that some people will be in favour of this while others will not, but you can’t please everyone. I think the main good point is that tweens can’t pop playboy pictures onto their 360s just to annoy all of us grownups on a continual basis. Other than that, i think that it somewhat takes away from individuality where some like to use a variety of pics to express themselves.
But, it’s not like my opinion counts so whatever. So long as i can still use the site, it’s Green.
xoxo ♥
*ahhhh drat*
It STILL cannot retrieve my info. *dang* *sighs*
On that note, i’m heading off … the creepy grey smiley avatar is giving me the heebiejeebies. It’s a sad day for Answers when the standard incognito avatar gives its users the creeps ;P *tee-hee*
xoxo ♥
People who complain about this crap have no lives. I pitty them. It’s really no big deal at all.
Why on earth change something that was not broken. There are so many other more serious problems on Yahoo Answers. PLeeeze do not force us to use an Avatar instead of a picture…. I absolutely HATE those stupid avatars…none look anything like anyone over 25 or skinny as a rail. If we have a perfectly decent foto, why take it away from us?
i think jenet took my avatar,thats ok she can have it,i’m a chick of many faces.So you mean to tell me that this is it,this face forever ever…i like a little change once in a while it goes with my personality but you leave me with no option,what about every 6 months oh well you are the leader do your thing.[yes sir\madam yahoo]
so my blog & all my work is now gone? this looks worse than my space
STUPID STUPID STUPID
This is so lame ugh I hate this Y!A is going downhill. I am about to just delete my profile and go to different sites
THIS SUCKS
Why? Why? and Why? Pointless in my humble opinion.
This is stupid!!
I am only able to show my “cartoon avatar “, rather than uploading a photo
It doesn’t allow me to!. I tried many methods and still wont allow me to upload a photo. I’m soo angry, Yahoo!!
Wth!!? now I can NEVER upload a photo. Get it fixed! i’m screwed forever
Yahoo! Answers staff, please bring back the use of Yahoo! 360 for the use of our avatar photos. Thank you.
is suck !!!
I really don’t like this at all. Some of us liked having tall avatars and liked the Y360 picture. Why are you doing this? What’s the point? It was just fine before!!
This isn’t fair, I want my beautiful galaxy picture back!!
This is a very bad IDEA!!!
We want old YAHOO! ANSWERS back!
This is a bad idea, change it back please. Don’t ignore your customers!
WHAT’S WRONG WITH Y!A? They should be improving it not destroying it!
I really don’t like this. You are in fact offering less, than we had before. 360 is deleted, as well as all contacts that existed there, basically Yahoo deleted an entire community. Also, I don’t want any information passing between different services. This morning I had to delete a lot of stuff from my profile that Yahoo imported automatically, and that I don’t to be made public. I think there is a breach of privacy here, and if there is I will be taking legal measures. All in all, I’m not happy with the change, I’m changing my homepage from Yahoo to another one. I don’t like to be jerked around.
This new Yahoo profile is so poor! It’s a MAJOR downgrade! It’s so not impressive! I had higher expectations for Yahoo! I guess I’ll have to lower them – GREATLY!!
This is a really bad idea- it’s like going from windows xp to windows 98….
Why is yahoo constantly changing things? Can’t ya just keep what is good and what works? Ya know….theres an old saying….”if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
If any of you Yahoo! people are reading this; all of us have a message for you-
THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
O.k., I guess I shall resort to pasting the link to my 360 on my answers page. The new profile page is a waste! It leaves no room for creativity or expression!
I have contacts who only have a 360 page, they never had an Answers account, what of them?
People spend alot of time and effort in their 360 blogs, not to mention the photosharing and the ease of which to communicate with friends in the comment section.
The new profile page su*ks!
very bad idea…
Please bring back our old Yahoo 360!
What happened with my other pictures? including the one that I was just using as my avatar? Man this sucks. I don’t like that profile thing at all
Had to do a modest amount of data editing on my Answers top page as a result of the new form code (as the Y! Profiles link displaces the former Y! 360 link), but everything seems to work well enough at this time. Y’all will still find the remaining bugs if ye keep searching, of course; but the photo from Y! Profiles carried over nicely.
thanks a lot i wish you change profile appearance too
I’m so glad hearing this message
i have not been able to access my 360 since i had to change isp providers and lost that email account. i had written for assistance a few times but never got a response on how to fix it.
I am not able to use my favorite avatar.This is not an improvement,YAHOO.It is getting difficult to keep a civil tongue in my head;your improvements are all failures.Instead of ruining everyone’s avatars,go back to the way it was before your failed improvement. Instead of messing up avatars you would be very well advised to fix your FLAWED spell checker and your even more flawed automatic posting software which all too frequently puts questions into the wrong category.
I have a profile but YAHOO doesn’t recognize it!I tried posting my favorite avatar in profiles and it didn ‘t work!
I also don’t want to share any information and keep the page just for posting my avatar.
Your improvements are NOT improvements,but poorly thought out FAILURES.YAhoo would be well advised to listen to what people are saying: go gack to the way things were with 360.
Are you going incorporate anything from 360 on to the new profile. Will we be able to post blogs. I don’t care for myspace or facebook That is why I loved 360 because I could change my background and personalize it more to fit who I am. If all it is going to be is just a profile I will have to go to facebook or myspace instead. To bad you had to close 360 I really enjoyed it and from what profile looks like now I am not that impressed.
NO! put 360 back on! that is my life and where i blog! KEEP 360 or im not using yahoo anymore!
Yahoo,
you’re really screwing things up! i was finally starting to like my 360 and and Y!A and now you’re going to ruin it.
I hope you realize that what’s happening is NOT COOL with most of your users and many, like me, will leave Yahoo if you don’t pull your head out of your butt!!!
I started on Yahoo Buzz up by accident, showing my feelings towards news items and find out my avatar and name are everywhere. I didn’t want my kids and some friends seeing my opinions. thanks yahoo.
Because of social networking and the sign ups we are now subject to total identity theft also. They hire people they trust, and next you know there goes our bank acct. What a world!
And does this mean we can’t have two identity’s anymore?
dude! i tried to use the same photo for my Y! profile as i have been for 360, but after i uploaded it and cropped it, it looks blurry and retarded!
Yahoo, i don’t know why you want to offer crappier services than what you were. Most companies try to imrpove things for their customers, and give them more….
My picture from 360 is no longer being used. This stinks. No warning. No information on how to update my picture avatar in answers.
This is retarded. Why are you messing with something that people are happy with?
Why are you making everything confusing?
leave yahoo the way it was , why do you have to keep changing stuff around. do you have so many people working for yahoo that they don’t have anything to do and you have to give them work to do to keep them busy ? if thats the case then unload some of the employees. people are getting sick of all the changes you people do. like the other person said ” for Gods sake if its not broken , don’t fix it.” if you keep changing things all the time, i’m outta here too. there’s got to be another browser that keeps the same ole same ole.
get off the change crap, we’ve got enough change going on with the president, we don’t need you to be changing everything around on here. i’m sick of it.
I don’t like it. I can’t figure out how to make it show the whole avatar and not just the face.
I hope this is the beta version.
I love 360 better, YAHOO! PLEASE CHANGE IT!
HOW IS THIS AN UPDATE ANYWAY IT SEEMS LIKE YOU RUINED MY CHANCES OF PEOPLE ADDING ME ON 360 PLEASE CHANGE IT >:(
Yahoo want to move to people using their Profile as a hub for all Yahoo activity.
The problems with this are that firstly they have not accounted for the fact that a lot of Y!Answers users linked to their contacts through their 360s and that 360 provided a really good online community for all us Answerers. We liked the blogging and facilities too.
And that’s the second and major problem. If Profiles had been perfected when they were first proposed in October 2008 everything would be fine.
But they are still working on Profiles and so at the moment all they offer is a very basic space that provides none of the customising options of 360.
Quite why Yahoo insist on pushing Profiles while they are nowhere near a finished product is beyond me, but then the whole company seems hellbent on ruining whatever it has that people like and giving us instead what they think we should like.
It’s sad really.
Oh Ok That What Happiend I Want Change Alot People Really Sad About Itt Change It Kinda Stinks So Yea
Yahoo? common your allready losing money?
now this? what happens when the people that use there advertising dollars see all this discontent?
would you advertise with a company that went from 1000 users to 250? hummmmm? my advice fire the person that came up with this idea it would only be to your benefit
I use an avatar and mine is the gray blob face now. I have read this blog and follow the directions. I still do not have my avatar displaying. Why does Yahoo! insist on messing around with things that work until they don’t?
In the music section on Yahoo Answers, (death metal/heavy metal/punk closest to the “rock & pop” cadegory-why isn’t there a cadegory for it?-it would help alot.-thank you.
Mann I hate this.
PLEASE bring back the 360, it was soo much nicer than this stuff and I HATE how I had to crop my avatar. And why didn’t yahoo warn us? Wtff..
okay so i updated my yahoo 360 account and everything, but when i go to yahoo answers it doesn’t give me the option to use my 360 photo.
What am i supposed to do!
Why don’t you give us the option of using this? Some of us like our privacy. I only talk to my family and update my family on things and only close friends on 360.
I usually post on “omg”, another yahoo service, but now since I now that it will show up in every network I don’t feel comfortable posting anything that much anymore. If you’re going to mess with our privacy and spread it around the net like that then we should at least have had a say in it. And these new profiles are a complete joke. When you UPgrade you’re supposed to deliver something that’s better than the previous service. The new profiles are so lacking and boring and if this is the beta version then duh it would make more sense to wait until you have a finished product and something actually better than 360 to put it up. What in the world were you Yahoo people thinking? NO ONE is happy about this and you’re going to lose a lot of people to these stupid changes you guys think are so brilliant! Geez, at least give us a say in things like this! To summarize, these new profiles are disappointing and I would be ashamed to have the name Yahoo beside it if I were you.
I reckon even though it ain’t busted, ya got to fix it…
wowowowo they better not not get rid of yahoo 360 ill seer NEVER go on yahoo again.
i love 360!
ugh
I don’t support that idea, the way i am, it’ll make yahoo less interesting. Though i do understand the need to make linking pics a easier feat, i like having a sort of unique incognito apparel on the other yahoo sites/branches
Why must you at Yahoo! ruin everything. 360 was great, until you abandoned it and left us to deal with technical problems galore. And now you want to ruin Answers too. Come on Yahoo!, get with the program. Instead of abandoning or changing everything good, why not just maintain what you have and keep your users happy. Otherwise, you’re going to keep losing your fan base. *I’ve been with Yahoo! since you began in 1994, so I ask you to PLEASE fix and save 360 and leave Answers alone.
* sticks tongue out,stomps feet* You have just ruined everything.No wonder so many people “migrated ” to Multiply!
Apparently, Yahoo’s motto is “if it ain’t broke, it needs to be.”
no comment
This is one of the stupidest things they have ever done things are messed up enough as it is why do the need to add to the mess?
What a way to start off 2009 make everything worse than it need be. are they trying to make things harder for the confliker worm?
i also used a avatar. i changed it back to the picture i wanted and now many hours later i am getting a gray face now…and it willnt let me change it back to the picture again…
i also agree to what jimmy said
“Why does Yahoo! insist on messing around with things that work until they don’t?”
along with a bunch of other people
this is not good!!
So lame. I loved my 360, and because they are doing away with the blog portion, I went out and got a blog site somewhere else. I’ll use my profile to keep connected with my friends but I think it’s effed that we have to do this.
Just another reason why I am leaving YA.
Well, once again Yahoo! enforces a new standard upon its users without any regard for what they may prefer.
I’m sure they’re doing this in order to save money on bandwidth, but still.
Do the people at Yahoo! live locked in cage-like offices and never bother to research what their users use or enjoy the most?
Ugh..kinda reminds me of when I used to Beta AOL’s crap for them during their 3.0-5.0 period and they were loosing money out the ying yang.
{yeah AOL still sucks..lol)
Goodness it would look like Yahoo is going back wards as to a lot of their implements.
If you don’t make your people happy they will go elsewhere.
I hate that the crop feature will cut out most people images now.
But I like and without person!
Just when your thought yahoo could not get any worse, it does.
Why ?
Improvements yes but tinkering with no obvious benefit.
If bandwidth and resources are trying to be saved,
why not start deleting inactive accounts like ones that have not been used in a one year period and go from there.
There’s a saying that its easy to criticize,
with yahoo, its true.
With every little annoyance more people stop coming back, that’s no way to run business.
I hope you all come to see it from OUR point of view soon, Thank you.
I AM SO DISGUSTED!! YOU ARE CONSTANTLY MAKING BAD CHANGES AND WE DONT EVEN GET A SAY!
I WAS OK WITH PEOPLE SEEING MY 360- BUT MY PROFILE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR THE PEOPLE I INVITED!!
YOU MADE THAT CHANGE BASICALLY WITHOUT NOTICE AND WE HAD NO TIME TO RESPOND!
I HAVE SINCE MADE MY PROFILE PRIVATE!
AND TAKEN OFF MY YAHOO IM CONTACT!
HOW AGGRAVATING!
well this is interesting off to answerbag. amazing what i can find out when you make the internet saavy angry. Way to be yahoo.
This makes me believe even more so that Yahoo encourages pedos – if one is to have the SAME profile on the ENTIRE Yahoo network, this makes it easier to find innocent kids!
It has been argued and argued in the YA forum about how many sickos are on this site. What part of THERE ARE STALKERS ON THIS NETWORK does Yahoo NOT get?
I don’t know why some of you are acting like Yahoo is taking your Birthday away from you. Half of you whining about it are using some hot females models photo and you are actually a chubby, bald male. It’s okay, you can still fantasize on Face Book or My space.
Please update my 360 profie
I will repeat myself when I say you are making poor business decisions. Pissing off the customers is a sure fire recipe for losing business. Now I wonder, with so many people leaving comments here complaining about the change…..will Yahoo listen and change back to their old system?
This is some bullshyt! Why tha hell Yahoo changed it? It was fine the way it was!
I don’t like new Y!A look . it doesn’t look good . especially default picture is very bad indeed . other things are OK . But I don’t like the default Display Picture .
stupid idea. i want the 360 link back on my ya profile…no one else will ever find it. seems yahoo doesn’t listen to it’s users – and w/o us you are nothing. the changes suck. fix what needs fixing, and get input from actual users. have a suggestion spot for higher levels and LISTEN TO THEM. very disgusted. i won’t be back till you get your stuff together.
I have wanted to make an avatar but my avatar is a girl and I’m a boy and I can’t figure out how to change it from girl to boy.
well my goodness the pressure is getting that strong um? Yahoo 360 use to be TOPS, now TAGGED, MY SPACE, FACEBOOK, ETC ARE TAKING OVER. AND THEN SOME OF YOUR PEOPLE GOTTA NERVE TO SAY STOP COMPLAINING! HUH! HUH!
All was updated very easily. No problems with updating images and setting the one I want to use as Primary. Everything else went very smoothly.
Ron
When will you update the new profiles to include a section for GROUPS someone is managing, or to incorporate feeds from websites as we could do on 360????
Well, I just don’t want to write my profile; I refuse! Why do I have to make one so I can use Yahoo Services? Why is this have to be obligatory? Why not something that you make only if you just want to. I will lie anyways about all my information in this so call ” obligatory profile” . O.K, I have to write one, but you won’t read the true me, sorry. My life is not for Yahoo to know, and not for me to tell. I’m registered to use the services, hello! This is a very bad idea. Instead of really improving what’s going wrong, Yahoo Answers is messing up with what is right. I hate it and I repeat, I will not write a profile to use Yahoo Answers or anything else. Go put your nose where the real problem is, you don’t need to meddle about my life.
I had an avatar a few days ago then suddenly Yahoo Answers is updating, now my avatar is a smiley face… when I went back to edit my avatar (because my avatar is still on avatars.yahoo.com but not on Yahoo Answers, and saved the edit, went back to edit my profile, and my avatar still wouldn’t show up
please fix this!
it won’t let me change my profile picture so now i’m stuck with an avatar. when i click Change Photo, nothing happens.
i’m so mad at Yahoo!. i think i’m going to stop coming on Yahoo! Answers. i’m so sick of Yahoo! and their changes.
I tried to re-establish my avatar pic. The new “Profile” SHOWS my avatar pic, and when I choose it as my pic, it accepts it, but when I start browsing Y!A, the avatar “character” is used, and NOT the photo I want (or had previously). Why can’t I get the photo (which shows in my profile) to be used?
My yahoo profile photo Dosen”t change,Why? pls answer to me,Bacause I want to change my photo.Tnx