I Have also heard groups are closed for these reasons:
1. There are under aged / unlisted age members in the member directory of the group. (only applies for adult groups obviously)
2. The moderators do not check new users ages.
BTW: Just looked through the member directory of this group and some people are listing they are under 18! I only had to get to the second page of the member list to learn this :O
Omniwolf
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., Lothar GreyWolf <lothargw_at_o...> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I have seen this very thing happen to dozens and dozens of other
> furry groups and as Rauhnee said in her earlier post, it is very
> likely that it had absolutely nothing at all to do with age issues.
>
> There are three reasons why yahoo closes groups.
>
> 1) the group contains adult material and is not located in an adult
> section of yahoogroups.
>
> 2) materials being posted over the group are illegal or are copyrighted
>
> 3) someone complains too many times about the group.
>
> Now if you look back at the DesireeLee group you can see that it was
> in an adult area of yahoogroups and there was no illegal material
> nor copyrighted material being posted without the permission of the
> creator. Therefore it had to be the third reason which was that
> someone contacted yahoogroups and complained about the group. Another
> thing to remember is that yahoogroups has a whole lot of groups and
> there is no way that they have the time nor manpower to police all of
> their groups, so in order to be caught with the first two options it
> would have to have been brought to yahoo's attention. There is also
> the probability that the person who complained was probably denied
> membership and they snitched the group out as revenge for being
> denied membership.
>
> I think that with the recent SPAM attacks and with some of the other
> issues which have recently come to light over some of the furry/scaly
> lists, that this is a good time to mention that Rauhnee, myself and a
> few others are working on a list for Anthro moderators and owners,
> where we can address problems that are and have been facing
> the furry lists. This is not a project to point fingers at anyone,
> and spamming and flamming will be dealt with using an iron fist.
>
> Anthro-Mods is a list for helping each other to create and keep our
> furry/scaly lists up and running. Anyone who is interested in helping
> to improve and keep what we have in Anthro lists is encouraged to
> join. The concept is that the more members we can get means more
> constructive ideas on helping each other, so please let anyone whom
> you think might be interested know about the Anthro_Mods list.
>
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anthro_Mods
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >I got this reply, and the answer doesn't look too good.
> >
> >What if they lie?
> >
> >They simply axe the groups without warning. That's so wrong!
> >
> >Forwarded message:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Groups.
> >
> >Please note that we do not require our users to place their ages on
> >their profiles. If you are concerned about minors being in an Adult
> >group, we do have measures in place to prevent this from happening.
> >
> >Please note that groups with adult-oriented content are placed in our
> >Adult category to help ensure that minors would not view adult content.
> >When a user registers for a Yahoo! ID, they included a birth date. If
> >this birth date is less than 18 years of age, they can not access the
> >adult areas of Yahoo!. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer
> >Care.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Later,
> Lothar GreyWolf
>
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>
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> furry/scaly/toon pinups!
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>
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>
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>
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> interested parties!
>
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Received on Sun Nov 03 2002 - 18:51:57 CST