They had stories from several sources, did the actual writers of the stories complain? Why would Yahoo care what the authors thought. If there was a valid reason to pick apart a poorly written story because of factually challenged statements, then that would be good.
The Yahoo boards were fun to post on. There were a lot of Trolls, if they were a real "pain" you could put them on ignore or not feed them. If you focus on "Troll" statements then your cup will always be half empty.
Their system of "recommedations" was a good way to guage comments. There were times and quite a few times that those with multiple profiles would "rec" themselves but it was a good way to get feedback on an arguement you may be supporting or countering.
Sometimes the direction of the argument may go off on a tangent but it was an open forum for such discourse.
I was a poster there and it was not a difficult task to ignore the pebble in the shoe.
I ignored the blatantly ignorant posts and encouraged the posts that put forth arguments of a more cordial nature.
I hope they come up with boards that will remove the more obvious trolls such as "agame020a"
who usually had the topic "!!Your Father was a Parasite" and then rant on.
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They had stories from several sources, did the actual writers of the stories complain? Why would Yahoo care what the authors thought. If there was a valid reason to pick apart a poorly written story because of factually challenged statements, then that would be good. The Yahoo boards were fun to post on. There were a lot of Trolls, if they were a real "pain" you could put them on ignore or not feed them. If you focus on "Troll" statements then your cup will always be half empty. Their system of "recommedations" was a good way to guage comments. There were times and quite a few times that those with multiple profiles would "rec" themselves but it was a good way to get feedback on an arguement you may be supporting or countering. Sometimes the direction of the argument may go off on a tangent but it was an open forum for such discourse. I was a poster there and it was not a difficult task to ignore the pebble in the shoe. I ignored the blatantly ignorant posts and encouraged the posts that put forth arguments of a more cordial nature. I hope they come up with boards that will remove the more obvious trolls such as "agame020a" who usually had the topic "!!Your Father was a Parasite" and then rant on.