Has Yahoo! even noticed the hordes of long-time members who are bailing because of the new format?

[RedQueen]

Yahoo! has never cared.

Once, we begged them to allow us to keep our full-color 360 pages, where we could chat with other members, blog about various subjects, post videos and images. Had Yahoo! done so, their 360 could have blown facebook out of the water. Instead, we were given these ridiculous profiles that no one here likes.

Over the years, we have pleaded with Yahoo! to not allow community moderation, to please read any and all complaints and appeals before turning them over to a bot. Yahoo! has turned a blind eye and deaf ear. The mass exodus began, and has continued for years.

Yahoo! doesn't care about those of us who have stayed here and built this place into what it is (was). Our loyalty has been repaid with an awful, unusable format. Hordes will leave, but the trolls will replace them so Yahoo! won't notice right away... But notice they will, and the site will go down. When it becomes completely impossible to receive a decent answer to serious questions, people will stop asking here.


ps...Were you aware that when I joined eight years ago, it was not uncommon to receive 40+ answers to each and every question? I have asked two which have surpassed the 100 answer mark. That was a goal all of us tried to reach.

The questions came so fast and furious that by the time a decent answer could be given, you'd find that the question was two pages back. Now we sit, listening to crickets. Questions receive few answers, many which are one-liners. So few people care...

I have not stopped caring about the asker, but when my format changes and cannot be switched back, I will bid a permanent adieu. I don't do facebook, so these moments now are the last I will have with so many of you.


(((((Everyone)))))


Bill, I'll tell you how little Yahoo! cares...

There was a night 7 years ago when several of us asked that everyone list their unfair violations, appeals, and Y!A's response. Then, after getting my kids off to bed, I spent the entire night moving each individual answer to a post on the suggestions board. I had to do this one at a time because I could not copy/paste the entire page.

Hayden Lyfe (my very favorite user, sorry... He was precious to me, and I miss him terribly) kept others from posting on the suggestions thread, so that Yammie would be faced with an uninterrupted list of unfair violations and the ways in which they handled this. It took me all night, and I did not stop until my kids awoke for school at 5 a.m.

Yes, I sat here all night, with Hayden covering my back, and moved over 400 posts.

Did this make a difference? No. Yahoo! staffers had to have read this, but they could not be bothered to even give a reply. Instead, they removed my thread and gave me an Administrative Notice. Not a VN, but an AN. From time spent on the Message Boards, I was well aware that three AN's would result in account deletion.

Do they care? Not even a bit.