The latest on profiles
The migration to the new Yahoo! profile platform is almost complete for Answers, and we understand some of you are concerned about certain changes. Rest assured – your feedback is very important to us as we are always working on improvements. We’d like to address some of the issues you have raised over the past weeks.
What if I want a different image for Answers?
Remember, you can change your profile image whenever you want. Feel free to post a different profile picture so you don’t feel like you are always displaying the same image. Also, don’t forget you can also use an Avatar on Answers. We have many cool Avatars that can be personalized to reflect your individuality (check them out here: http://avatars.yahoo.com). As we mentioned before, if you have been displaying an Avatar on Answers, both your Avatar and nickname will continue to remain the same.
What about resizing my image?
You’ve also probably noticed images have to be cropped in the new profile platform. If you’re worried about losing part of your image, consider choosing one with a large background. This way, the square cropping required on your Yahoo! profile will have a minimal effect.
In other words, the same image I display on Answers will also appear in places like Flickr?
Your universal profile on Yahoo! is gradually being rolled out in phases, so there are currently a few properties (including Flickr, MyBlogLog, and Messenger) that do not use profiles at this time. The profiles team is working closely with each of the other Yahoo! properties to create a smooth transition to the new profiles service. We know that you value your experiences on Yahoo! and want to make sure that the integrity of these sites (and your membership) is maintained, which is why this process has been done gradually instead of all at once.
Please continue to share your constructive feedback with us, as we know the best way to improve these services is with your help.
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~ option to use full avatar icon, not available,
~ option to hide Y! profile as private and still use icon in answers, not available,
~ option to choose icon for all yahoo or for each yahoo service, some yes, some no,
~ option to to block trolls from personal Y!profiles if open, not available,
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But see, that’s the problem. Most of us don’t want to use the same picture on our different Yahoo accounts such as Flickr. I use a picture of myself on my Flickr account and I use a different picture on Yahoo Answers. Please don’t make it a universal thing, as I said before, think about your USERS who keep your company, Yahoo, in business and what we are comfortable with.
As usual you are trying to fix something unimportant while avoiding something in real need of repairs, the Community Moderation system. This latest move is nothing more than putting a band aid on a cancer patient.
“Your feedback is important to us”. Yeah, right.
This online is all new in the last few years, keep working on it, life is good and life is challenging, rise to the ocassion…
“Please continue to share your constructive feedback with us, as we know the best way to improve these services is with your help.”
The best way to improve these services is to leave them alone. Nobody was unhappy with the way things were before this change. If your users were FINE with how things were running then why “fix” it?
At least take the cropping images part out. I hate the fact that we have to do that now.
If you guys really listened to our feedback, you’d change this new format like Facebook did when it’s users complained.
What a painfully clear, and great blog! Thanks for listening to our wishes!
All this just causes that the entire Yahoo community becomes more and more impersonal. People will more and more use faceless avatars, out of fear for being exposed in ALL parts of Yahoo.
Anyway, great blog! really helpful too. I give up.
I agree with the full avatar thing. I kinda like everything else.
My avatar keeps disappearing, being replaced by one of those bubble gum, cookie cutter default ones that some folks get a kick out of picking for themselves.
I’d rather have the generic old gray profile one than that gummie bear monstosity that keeps popping up above my name? I didn’t choose it and I worked very hard to create my own, original icon.
Do I have to go back and RE install it or is this something that will fix itself when the remodeling is complete?
We need more options on answers. We don’t have as much freedom as we deserve.
I agree with the comment posted by “simon” posted this morning. Also, are you saying we are not allowed to block trolls? Just who are you helping?
It’s so funny how not one single person complained about the way Y!A was run, but now ever since all of your exciting new changes, almost everyone in the community is complaining. Why keep on with this if nobody likes it? All you are doing is driving everyone away, bad move Yahoo, bad move.
I don’t get why some people didn’t have to crop their avatars, like me for example.
I agree with those who say the old system was fine — I was quite shocked to see the picture had changed to one by which I can be identified, and hastened to go to that ugly square default!
My vote is for undoing these changes!
You guys definitely sound busy over there if nothing else… whether people like the changes or not. LOL. I personally am nonchalant about it either way. Cheers!
Haha @ comments
sorry wonderful wonderful Y! Team, u fail. epically
still luv ya though, for creatign the gloriousness of Y!A and all. <3
Ummm … people … how much are we paying for this service we get? I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t pay for Yahoo .. and it’s provided me with more incredible experiences in my life than I could have ever paid for.
I don’t like the changes & the part I dislike the most is
CROPPING PICTURES!!!!! Come on! I had a great picture and now that it has to be cropped it doesn’t work! That is the stupidest thing. Why do we need to crop our picture? It’s already small enough as it is!
Changes didn’t “need” to be made. Things were fine.
Well I was considering checking out Flickr but you can forget that now. I like the anonymity that YA used to have. For example if I wanted to show pictures of my kids on a site such as Flickr to a group of co-workers I sure the heck don’t want those same co-workers being able to click on some profile of mine to see that I asked for advice on how to deal with a cheating spouse or something very personal.
I hope you will realize by combining all this information makes it way easy for someone to be targeted as it only serves to jeopardize their anonymity and personal security.
Also the avatars are so darn small I need special lenses to figure out what they are supposed to be.
Add me to your growing list of users who are thoroughly dissatisfied with this new limitation.
I dress markedly different if I’m going out clubbing with my friends than I do for a family reunion or the office. Why should Yahoo force me to display the same image for my friends, family, and colleagues?
Sure I could skirt the system by creating multiple accounts like so many others do, but I really prefer not to. This is just another form of needless censorship.
Maybe if you quit trying to fix sh1t that aint broken you’ll have time to work on your email search function that’s been glitchy for eons.
i don’t see the need for this. doesn’t see as if it was done for the users.
Everytime I read here about such an upgrade, I have to laugh. There are just so many things in Answers that work badly or not at all… that I really couldn’t care less about “migration to the new Yahoo! profile platform”.
If you are really interested in user feedback, then why don’t you start by ironing the bugs out of Answers?
I mean, Answers is great, I love it. Bugs or not. But these kind of self praise in your blogs is just annoying.
You info is NOT correct. If you change your profile pic. it IMMEDIATELY changes it for Y!A and ALSO for the Suggestion board and similar blogs to it.
This was NOT the case before. Now if you have a distinct easily identifiable avatar on Y!A, you cannot PUBLICLY post on the suggestion board without it showing your Y!A avatar.
Thanks for painting a big fat bulls-eye for the trolls to shoot at!! Good Job!!!
When is Yahoo Answers going to announce it has fixed the problem with avatars it just created?
Many of us were using images from our 360 pages that Yahoo Profile — which we are being forced into using in a very authoritarian and exploitative move by Yahoo, it is so they can falsely drive up user numbers on Profile to show to advertisers to get them to buy space there — will not accept without them being cropped first.
For many, this is unacceptable as the images we are using are works of art and cannot be cropped to be altered without destroying the work of art.
That is unacceptable.
I don’t know why Yahoo decided Yahoo Profile would not accept images as large as 360, I only know the Answers identity I have been using for many months has been forcefully taken by Yahoo in this move to force us all into Yahoo Profile so it can falsely drive up numbers to scam the advertisers.
Shame on Yahoo.
But, my real question is, when is Yahoo going to fix this problem so we can use the same images we were using before when Answers was connected to 360?
And why has “Ask Mike” not answered my email about this?
i cannot upload my own avatar and refuse to use your cartoon ones. i spent a lot of time tweaking my 360 and now it’s not attched to ya anymore. i’m a premium paying yahoo mail client. i will not be back to ya until things are resolved. i hate yiur changes.
i have yet to decide whether to cancel my ya mail and use another provider. i am extremely disgusted with your arbitrary changes; they are far from being upgrades,
I wish you’d leave things alone. Now my contacts on 360 are gone and will not allow me to send invite and I still have a gray face instead of my avatar wich I set up as instructed but I still have a gray face wich is boring. I’m not happy.
I really don’t like the new profiles section, it is too generic and doesn’t have many of the features that our 360s have.
I think you are really spending too much time on something that is a nonissue for most people (like we needed another profile page!!!) instead of focusing on real concerns like trolling, stalking, and the community moderation / violations / suspension system. I also really hope that you aren’t phasing out the 360s in favor of the profile page! Part of what has made being here so fun is the various options we have had for expressing ourselves (and our individuality).
So just how are you going to preserve our membership when we don’t want a universal profile?
Personally I shall be reducing my Yahoo presence because you are introducing changes that are the opposite of what I have come to like about Y!Answers and Y!360 and which I still want.
I see no point spending time on one of your Profiles when that’s not what I want. I have already pretty much stopped using 360 (although I have yet to leave permanently for Multiply, which is what most of my contacts have done) and have reduced my visits to Y!Answers because it’s no fun without the 360 tie in.
You haven’t listened to us Answers or 360 users so far and I see no indication that you intend to do so. You ask for our ‘constructive’ comments because you want to carry on doing exactly what you want to do. When we tell you what WE want, you ignore us.
So carry on carrying on. Just don’t expect people to stay with you.
The new avatars are pitiful. My beautiful avatar of my cat which I have used for a long time and by which I am known on sight in my category is now cut in half and looks hideous. If you must change them, at least make them bigger.
Yahoo is copping out by making changes that only worsen the experience and ignoring real issues like the fact everytime I click a question I get an *Oops* message and have to backspace and reclick. That’s the kind of annoying stuff you SHOULD be dealing with.
I’d much rather see you add a live person to read the items that got reported. Or, maybe even a live person to read, and decide whether to restore a question or answer that had been reported.
Sometimes you really hurt people’s feelings with your ambiguous guidelines. I don’t think there is a real person working on appeals.
You get reported, you get deleted. And there’s no sense to appeal. You don’t get an answer or a question restored, anyway. So what’s the point?
I don’t like having a square image–I prefered the taller ones, and do NOT see the problem with it.
I really only use Answers and Flickr, and I like having two different images for both, especially since I have a name for my Answers profile and one for my Flickr profile.
Why fix it, there was nothing wrong!
Sorry guys, but I failed to see the problem in the first place.
How about taking care of the more issues that this site is facing instead of something minor like making pics smaller? Too many unjustified violations troll abuse Abuse of reporting just b/c an opinion is different from the other user is way out of control. Those problems should be fixed instead of this minor issue in my honest opinion.
We should definitely be able to choose a different image for each of the yahoo services. If I talk to people on Groups, I don’t want them to know who I am if they see me in Yahoo Answers or Messenger. Give the users more flexibility…
Yahoo listens to the users of their sites??
Not bloody likely.
For ONE example, I don’t recall being given an opportunity to decide if I wanted to use one picture (or worse..the idiotic avatars offered) for everything I do.
I don’t…and won’t.
That’s why my use of Yahoo products is coming to an end.
I for one am fed up with the lies and hypocrisy that comes out of ‘Yahoo’ Central. Face it, you listen to your advertisers only..you care nothing about the actual users. Which in itself is kind of..self defeating doncha think?
I really don’t care if my avatar looks like squashed up against the glass. Honestly…there are worse things in heaven and on earth.
What bothers me is that everytime I try to access a question from the home page I get told that the service is unavailable. I can access from my profile page though.
This is frustrating and should be fixed! I would like you to address this.
Oh…and why doesn’t this service recognize my e mail…it’s a valid yahoo email account. I’ve been trying to retrieve my password to this site and it doesn’t.
Sometimes things just don’t make sense here.
Anyone can get any answer removed, and yet you worry about this which isn’t even desired by your users. Great customer responsiveness.
:U
DO NOT WANT
How about more variety and customization on Y! Answers? I’d love to change the theme on my Answers page the way I can on my Yahoo homepage. I’d also love to be able to determine how my avatar is cropped on Answers. I hate that it only shows the head… why even bother putting clothes on it if only the head will be shown?
Why have changes been made, when there was nothing wrong with the system before?
This was a pointless and clearly unpopular change, yet I greatly doubt that any Y!A users concerns will be listened to. As usual.
if our feedback is sooo important to yahoo, then why are you ignoring all the users who don’t want their accounts universalized?
this is a bad idea!
don’t fix what’s not broken. We want more options, not less.
May the US users (outside China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba) still have different picture across different services?
Stop making these pathetic changes, Yahoo!
Thank you for removing a RELEVANT warning to others that their privacy has been compromised with this change..
Your Y!A avatar will follow you to the other boards, if you change you avatar in Y!A, it will export it globally, and you saw fit to remove that warning. Once again Yahoo shows they have absolutely NO CLUE what they are doing, and they dont give a tinker’s damn about YOUR privacy.
GOOD JOB!
I also don’t like that we have to crop our pictures. I liked the way pictures worked before.
Honestly, there are more important things that need to be fixed on Y! Answers. Not silly things like pictures. I think you’d know that if you really were paying attention to us.
Your new cropping feature is horrible.
“If you’re worried about losing part of your image, consider choosing one with a large background.”
You realize that if you use a larger background, your avatar image will be so small no one will be able to tell what it is. Bring back the longer avatars, why do you feel the need to change something that was perfectly fine how it was?
I like the new profiles. Ignore everyone who hates change.
If it aint Broke
Don’t try to fix it.
I liked it the way it was.
Now My picture
is gone and I can’t put it back.
It is not change that we hate. It is that it was forced on us and something was taken from us — our Answers identities when the ability to use the avatars we were using without destroying the images was taken.
Clearly a lot of people are upset about this (every person her reprents 100 people who are angry but have not said anything), so when is Yahoo going to fix it so we can use the images we were using?
Again, it’s not the issue of change, it’s that our Answers identities were suddenly taken from us by Yahoo and we can’t get them back unless Yahoo gives them back to us.
All they need to do is allow the Yahoo Profile image uploads to be as large as was allowed on 360. That’s all. But please Yahoo hurry up with it, we want our identities back. You can’t offer an “online community” and then take people’s identities they have spent months establishing in that community and expect they won’t have a bit to say about it.
I am sure not in a good mood to consider your advertisers when I am in mourning about the loss of my Answers identity.
This is ridiculous.I dare say you’re about lose thousands of users unless you change things ack to the way they were.If you want to do something to fix Answers,how about you stop letting reporter trolls and 12 year old Disney fans run the place,and actually start moderating it for yourselves?
If you truly listened to the thousands of complaints coming in – you would put the photo option back the way it was.
Yahoo does not care about the majority’s opinion.
Your statement above says it loud and clear.
This was a pointless change.
I liked the avatars the way they were, without them having to be cropped.
I could adjust to the profiles IF cropping wasn’t forced on us.
Some of our pictures look horrible cropped.
You say that our feedback is important to you, yet you’re not doing anything about the cropping or profiles.
If it isn’t broke, don’t try to fix it, Y!A
You messed up real bad here.
Bring back the old Yahoo Answers!
I am very dissatisfied with these changes,They are stupid and pointless.Now because of that cropping crap i have to spend stressful time looking for pictures that will fit. JUST this..”consider choosing one with a large background “…will NOT help at all. This is not a smart move at all yahoo.You have better things to worry about.You are invading people’s privacy and making things worse.I for one don’t want that yahoo profile junk…360 is way better.
People are getting tired of you and your stupid rules.ACTUALLY LISTEN TO US FOR ONCE.
I don’t get this at all… and I agree with a common question being raised: Why do we have to have the same picture for everything? That’s just an annoyance! This is why I have a few email addresses with a few different companies. Oh, well.
Thanks for another shameless display of incompetence. 360 was pretty weak, but these new profiles look like the web circa 1999. One of the fun things about Answers was being able to use a persona and photo that I wouldn’t use in other areas. Now that you’re taking that away from us, I may just stop using Yahoo completely,
I don’t know why you say you care about users’ opinions when you clearly do not.
I know my comment will probably be removed,like all my others,but if you want to ignore the fact that you’re driving users away,go ahead and keep screwing your site up,and punishing those who point out your slide into oblivion.
i agree with the first comment
i also hate that it can be tall and thin anymore
the new yahoo sucks
i liked the old one better
this new system of yours sucks!
but…i won’t complain…not even a bit!
i’ll just wait here on my chair….wait for google to come up with something more exciting than y!a and then delete my account and forget yahoo for good….
(then maybe i will laugh at users here….maybe troll them…who knows?)
but right now, i am heading for google blog…
did you know? the people there actually listen to what you have to say (if you are a yahoo-only customer, this is rather “wtf!!! really???” type of news, isn’t it?)
YEAH, but I don’t want the same picture for flickr as i have for answers. NOW WHAT?
lol, I love how the questions a lot of people have been asking were posted, but then the answers were basically BS and didn’t actually answer the posted question. How about Yahoo not change anything and keep it like it was? I don’t like all of my accounts being associated and to not give us an option to link or not to link is just bad business. It’s basically ‘Yeah, we changed it so deal with it’. This is exactly why I mainly use hotmail and MSN messenger. You can have many accounts and you aren’t forced to link them. I can also use whatever screen name I want and not have to worry about my real name and info coming up like in Yahoo Messenger. Also, I don’t get friggin’ spam in messenger like with Yahoo.
Who knows what the best path to fixing things around here is. It seems that all anybody wants to do on the internet now is terrorize people. Whether their terrorizing them into buying something, terrorizing them into keeping their mouths shut, when they should be free to speak their minds, or terrorizing their very lives with all these child molesters, online scams, credit fraud, and every murderers. It putrefies me to even use the internet, but I can’t really communicate very well without it to most of my “friends”, so who knows how to fix things.
Y’all are numbskulls.You could care less about our “feedback.”
In response to Kelly’s “I like the new profiles. Ignore everyone who hates change.” …..
You’re one of the very small minority of people who favor the change.
Me, as with most people, would rather go with the vast majority who dislike the change.
Or else why would there be a 2/3 majority vote in congress to decide whether amendments should be ratified if listening to the minority (1/3) is more beneficial?
Whoever got the “brilliant idea” to have each yahoo profile use one universal image for all yahoo’s services is a complete and utter NUTCASE.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
I still don’t like the FACT that if I want to use a photo for my avatar on Answers, I have to UNHIDE my profile on Profiles for all the spammers and stalkers to see. Never had that problem with 360.
Answer me this: at every category is the box with the legend “You’re on a roll! Can you answer these questions?”
Too bad that not only are the questions four days old, THEY ARE ALREADY RESOLVED! How about something just a touch more current and open?
The only thing I’m glad about is that the account I use for answers is only for answers. I didn’t really use my 360 profile anyway because MySpace is much more customizable.
I understand why you want to crop the pictures. It’s so you can use less bandwidth. But why make them so small? Just make the cropping no bigger than a fullsize yahoo avatar, and I think most people would be happy.
But why fix what no one was complaining about? Why not fix Answers instead? Reinstate answers that were reported just for having differing opinions than the reporters. Make reporting harder, and only delete questions and answers that were understandably offensive.
If what we want isn’t fixed, while what we like is changed, then you’ll find us leaving in droves for other q&a forums.
WOW. Not hittin on much are you Yahoo??!
If you’re looking for feedback, well, I’d say you got it. Now, the trick is for you to actually use it, see? Whoa, steady…steady…easy now…deep breaths….. I know that’s an overwhelming concept for you……ok, you got it together now? Right. So, IMO, 1st issue at hand, priority #1, is your USER’S PRIVACY, which is now non-existent. Tsk, tsk. This would include scratching the idea of a universal avatar & quick-links to our profiles from all over Y!. SO not a smart idea (who’s was that, btw?? I need to hand them something…)
No, no…..no rushing, guys…one issue at a time. You fix that MAJOR PROBLEM then check back here for your next assignment. Plenty more where that came from.
Now, off you go…
What?
(*sigh*) Well, ok, yes, you may take a break 1ST…….(*damn*)……BUT not a long one, hear??!
You’ve got L O T S of work ahead.
Yusef hit the nail on the head in what he posted.
Yahoo has been loosing money for quite awhile now and by this move to force us all into Yahoo Profiles so it would like their numbers were up to make it look like there are more people using Yahoo to appeal to the advertisers. BAD MOVE people will leave.
My 360′ Profile is missing from my Answers Profile(LINK)..instead a webpage shows that is a basic(profile)..for my ALIAS.
When are we going to get some information on our 360 pages?
I agree with Vince M. My avatar is gone and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to put it back. I can re-create it but I cannpot fiond how to apply it as mine. I have tried everything.
“It didn’t seem to be broken, so why fix it?”
I Don’t Want My Profile Associated With Ohter Sites
You Stated :
Your universal profile on Yahoo! is gradually being rolled out in phases, so there are currently a few properties (including Flickr, MyBlogLog, and Messenger) that do not use profiles at this time. The profiles team is working closely with each of the other Yahoo! properties to create a smooth transition to the new profiles service. We know that you value your experiences on Yahoo! and want to make sure that the integrity of these sites (and your membership) is maintained, which is why this process has been done gradually instead of all at once.
seems like a lot of people are pretty upset at things. Personally i think things are working pretty well there’s obviously room to improve but its not that. bad. Robert Carl Parisien Natick MA
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. What if I don’t want 1 universal image. Most people don’t
I wonder, if any of the changes that Yahoo does “for it’s users” will actually be put to a vote by the users, prior to the changes being made.
Sorry guys, just doesn’t seem like there’s any part of a democracy to it. There’s plenty of issues to be fixed, and all that gets addressed is stuff like this?
I wonder if anything will be done about the fact that this change has warranted nothing but criticism….surely if you listen to the users, it will be, and the changes will be undone. No better proof of truth than time, I suppose.
Re-sizing avatars-NOT AVAILABLE ! It is what it is. Bunch of crap. What was the reason to mess this up? Why do we now have to jump through hoops to find our 360 pages? Someone was justifying going to Starbucks, right? Thanks for ruining something that was great.
ATTN. MELLISA .Please change the default setting to private.In LBGT we get posters from countries were homosexuality carries a DEATH SENTENCE.The posted assured of their privacy and end up searchable by name without being told.For many of them Y/A was there only outlet to the free gay world.
others have posted personal Q’s such as “i cheated on my—- .What do i do”What are these warts on my ___”"I stole x from my employer .What happens if i’m caught?’
For anyone who complains about cropping their images. Just make a Jpeg out it and reload it as a Jpeg file, they don’t have to be cropped then. They fit the new format.
I have an avatar, but it says I don’t. In my settings, where I choose to show my avatar, it says I don’t have one, even though I even just made a new one!
Universal photo… Gots to go!
Where’s my privacy?
Cropping images…. GOTS TO GO!
Completely ruins my picture!
Besides pulling people in, you guys are shoving people away. Updating 101: Failed.
Like the old saying goes, If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it. There was nothing wrong with the old avatar photo system (aside from the few tools who felt obliged to post pornographic or otherwise objectionable photos) and like many I like to use different photos to represent myself in Yahoo’s different areas. Why force everyone to accept one photo for everything? There are other areas that need work ~ focus on them and leave the things that work fine alone.
seriously, Y! Team, ur acting retarded. >:( I earn you hundreds just by ignoring advertisements, and this is how you repay me?
#$%@#$@$# My avatar is still not showing up!!! And the Yahoo Help Form is broke too! Who to ask for help?
“the part I dislike the most is
CROPPING PICTURES!!!!! Come on! I had a great picture and now that it has to be cropped it doesn’t work! That is the stupidest thing. Why do we need to crop our picture? It’s already small enough as it is!
Changes didn’t “need” to be made. Things were fine.
Comment posted on March 27th, 2009 at 8:19 pm by Rachel”
I’m not upset or anything, but I DO agree with her. The changes were quite unnecessary.
I don’t recall ever being solicted for my feedback, and I’ve been a member of the Yahoo community for years.
I do not like the changes–especially with no warning. I do not like you deciding that we should have universal profiles and universal photos. I like my identifty here on Yahoo Answers to be somewhat anonymous…I should have the option to have a different photo here vs. on my profile that contains my real life friends.
Never mind the fact that the transition disconnected me the contacts I had on 360.
Yahoo is not working in a user minded way. There are other sites out there that do… if you want to run us off to those other sites on a permanent basis… you’re doing a good job of it.
I have other sites I belong to already–it’s just that Yahoo has always been my default choice… but you are alienating us… and you can be rest assured that if you do not listen to your customers..which is the primary rule of marketing, you will lose them.
Keep this in mind–you can not take away features customers have once enjoyed. You can not take away flexibility. That’s what you are doing right now… changes should ADD functionality, give users more bells and whistles…not defeature things because it is easier for your developers to maintain them.
Keep doing what is is easy…and you’ll make it easy for us to walk away in droves.
I really hate having a universal picture for all Yahoo! Services.
I also think you guys should stop trying to be the next Myspace or Facebook.
you know what? on second thought… I am just deleting my yahoo answers account. You didn’t advise me of the changes coming…so why should I advise you that I’ll leave if things don’t change?
I shall just now vote with my feet… enough is enough. I don’t like this associated with my other yahoo accounts. It sways my answers–I dont’ want someone to be able to read my answers and questions… or even know that I am a member here…
You have violated my trust and privacy…and if a person in my life did that…they’d be out of it… so goodbye yahoo answers! Have a nice life.
I agree w/ “wildflower” 3-28-09 a@ 8:3? post.
Too much time fixing what ain’t broke. When need more real time help from Yahoo worker’s on community guidelines. Appeal responses are as vague as violation responses. You want people to conform yet there is no personal help. It seems like you are so BZ running things thru filters & shooting back form responses. If you cared about community guidelines, you help people to follow them when they ask a question.
I cannot,for the life of me,figure out why,in the current economic environment,Yahoo would make decisions that seem to be designed for the express purpose of driving users away.Not only have you destroyed any last shred of enjoyment that many of your users were getting from using your site,you have also endangered people’s welfare.There are many people who have posted in the LGBT category who live in countries in where being gay is a capital offense,people have admitted behavior which could could destroy livelihoods,relationships,and could,in some cases,cause their incarceration.
It appears as if the last people Yahoo was thinking about here was it’s users.
Waaaa! Sniff, sniff! Snivel… Waaaaaaaaa!!
You know, I came here out of curiosity, but I can’t diagree with almost any of the opinions here, and have to agree with almost all of them.
Overwhelmingly almost no one seems to like the recent changes, and I have to agree.
Have you calculated the productivity hours of people lost trying to restore their avatars in this website? It is staggering, it rivals the productivity lost in the workforce by hung-over people on Monday, from Sunday night football. And most of that effort was wasted, as you are hearing now.
And guess what, the TV networks changed many game start times to be earlier because of it.
My avatar was the right size, and I still lost it, and had to waste valuable hours bring the same da_n one back, the same one.
I can’t side with YA on this one.
I think that we are just bashing our heads against a brick wall folks.
I have zero connections by the all contacts button,BUT on my main profile I list one connection I do not want.how do i remove it since it doesn’t show on the page with the delete option?
I am very hurt that my avatar is missing and nothing I have done is bringing it back , can you please find out why it went missing in the first place, I hate that grey box, and I have been a member since last Feb. so help is needed to find her.
New profile is horrible! It wont even launch… I click on the start using your new profile button and it does not go anywhere! Test things before release next time please..
Major thankies for the blog. Cool.
Wow, great post.Thanks Again. Will read on…