--- Tashta <Tashta_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Um, it might have been that on your intro page you
> had x rated art. That's a
> no no because a minor could type up the name and see
> that. You need to be
> more discreet with the intro and such and you need
> to have folks sign up
> with an age statement. Did you do that? I checked it
> early this morning and
> was rather surprised by the image that was
> displayed.
These are two theories of group management that *do
not hold water.*
I have groups that don't monitor ages, I have groups
with adult front-page pics, and they haven't been
touched. The theory, that it's because a search can
display adult pics, doesn't hold if the group is
really where it's supposed to be.
Furthermore, while Yahoo hasn't said anything about
the adult pics, they *have* said, *repeatedly*, that
ages in profiles don't mean *anything* to them. It's
just that everybody else thinks it does because of
what I like to call the Goering principle - a big bold
lie, repeated often enough, becomes indistinguishable
from the truth.
Especially when people don't realize it's a lie.
More likely is that somebody griped about the group,
to be honest. That's all it takes - one person
complaining enough will make Yahoo automatically
delete the group. No human involvement - the server
just wipes it out.
If somebody sends them a C&D about copyrighted
characters or art on the group, that's even faster
(though I don't know if this applies to the group in
question).
It's also possible (albeit less likely) that the group
wasn't deleted, but was the victim of a server glitch.
Yahoo has "burped" groups before - they disappear for
a few hours, even days, then come back.
Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 09:37:52 CDT