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Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update
An anonymous reader writes "The new NEO format of Yahoo Groups is being rolled out to users and there is no option to go back. Users and moderators are posting messages asking Yahoo to go back to the old format. Yahoo is responding with a vanilla 'thank you for your feedback we are working to make it better' comment. Most posters are so frustrated that they just want the old site back. One poster writes 'Yahoo has effectively destroyed the groups, completely, themselves.'"
The Digg Liberals were the ones who turned Digg into just another liberal media outlet - which fared as well economically as every other liberal media outlet, as in not at all. The "Digg Patriots" (of which I was never a member - just a bystander who agreed with them) were just a handful of guys attempting to bring some balance back into Digg, but were vastly outnumbered by the Digg Liberals doing exactly the same thing the Digg Patriots were (backchannel communications and massive group diggs/buries against ideological foes) only in numbers an order of magnitude greater than any Digg Patriot action... right at the end it was not uncommon to see a thoughtful conservative comment get 300 buries in ten minutes.
Just as in government, it was sad to see liberals destroy value so very quickly. No-one wants to listen to parrots endlessly squawking.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There is nothing worse than the sort of nerd that hates any change. How can you consider yourself intelligent and technical when the slightest change in a website turns you into a big crying pussy?
Also, this doesn't seem to be *that* big of a deal. The only website that comes reomtely close to being credible that's reporting on this is The Register and sorry, the Register operates who I would imagine Fox News would be run if converted to target only sexually frustated gossiping old women.
This is a non-event.