Anti-harassment petition discussion

All Done........Tippy

Tippy, thanks for signing. I don't know if it can work, but it is worth a shot. It is not like we have to raise money or do work or anything, just promise to quit posting. If the partner sites get involved in the discussion, we might have a pretty good shot at getting this fixed. They and Yedda have a financial stake in keeping us posting answers and creating discussion blogs. No doubt some of them have already fielded complaints from people asking questions who were flamed or otherwise harassed.

profitbob, I'm reconsidering the pledge to stop posting. I guess my initial reluctance to do that is based in a complete lack of faith in any large corporation's concern for its customers if there is no monetary downside. On the other hand, from day one I was confronted and puzzled by the reports of thumb massacre; this is obviously a problem that's been going on for a while now, and doing nothing is just giving in to the haters. The choice of the Ides of March, and your quote from Shakespeare, are great.

dweller, thank you.  Yes, giving up on Yedda is not something I take lightly.  These are old issues that we are dealing with that should have been taken care of long ago.

The money concern is our only stick to prod AOL and Yedda.  We Yeddai are the largest source of revenue through page-view advertising.  The partner sites don't pay to be a partner, but get paid through some type of revenue sharing.  If we don't answer questions, there is no purpose to the site, and no page-views of answers.

It is the Yeddai like OronD, DB Lady, tiptopmanager, (and modestly, myself) and others who have built up this site's reputation and helped to attract all those partner sites and made it worthwhile for AOL to buy Yedda.

There are a lot of competing sites, and at least one that pays the people who answer questions, and we can easily move our blogging there.  The reason we liked Yedda was that it was sophisticated, intelligent and freely shared information.  It was, when I joined it, a very dignified site, with close moderation by the staff to weed out the crazies.  We didn't need the protection then that we need now because the staff took care of things.

Since being absorbed by AOL the staff has disappeared from view (I used to be in close contact with them, and highly respected by them, but now I can't even get them to reply to me) and we have to have the tools to protect ourselves.  Myspace gives me this ability, Yedda should too.

Thank you for your support.  It sucks to be new to something and be dragged into these problems, so you have my sympathy.  Kind of takes some of the fun out of it, and this used to be a very fun site for me.

It can, and still will be a fun site guys.  Haters never win.

Hooray for your optimism, Asha.

Profit, count me in.

Flamers, like kidney stones, eventually pass. I'm just proud to sign the petition. Thumbs mean nothing, though: the content of the post does.

Rocmike3, thanks for your support. Yeah, thumbs aren't an issue for me, either, but they mean something to other people. It is being able to delete unwanted comments that I really want. It used to be okay when Yedda had moderators that read everything and cleaned it up before too many people saw the garbage, and kept a lid on the flamers. But now we have to fend for ourselves so we need the delete button in our hands.