| The Breakroom > The Water Cooler |
| Yahoo |
| << < (2/2) |
| AdeV:
--- Quote from: unc1esteve on August 27, 2013, 03:26:14 PM ---This is about Yahoo changing to a new system without any advance notice or warning, or even asking for approval. Then having a program in place to extort $69.99 from people like me that did not ask for the changes. It is called extortion. --- End quote --- Sorry, it's not called "extortion". It could be called "How to alienate your users and make them mad". Extortion means extracting money with menaces. Yahoo isn't menacing anyone. And, if you don't believe me, check out the contract you signed when you joined up. Yes, you did sign it, it's called the T&Cs. You probably did what most people do, and just clicked the irritating box without reading the irritating legalese. And if you did, well, tough. Because the T&Cs allow Yahoo do do what the hell they like to their systems, when the hell they want to. Sorry about that. Meantime... if you & fellow members of your group feel sufficiently strongly about the change in layout; then why not set up a forum of your own, to cover the subject area? It's not particularly hard to do, nor particularly expensive (but it's not free either...). |
| Country Bubba:
As a moderator on several groups, I say it SUX big time. On one of the groups in particular, Yahoo decides some people are spammers and dumps their post in the spam box. In the old format, as a moderator, I could evaluate the post and if I deemed it not to be spam, approve it for posting in the group. NOT NOW, the ONLY one that can do that is the group owner! As moderator, I can either delete the message or reply to it! Now what kind of sense does that make???? :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: |
| raynerd:
OK - I'm not up for a debate over the net right now but it was so outdated that it had lost a lot of users anyway!! I for one haven't used any of my groups in months. I feel your pain if it is really that bad but I'm pretty sure Yahoo don't need to ask for anyone's permission to make changes to their site. At least they are trying to evolve! Hopefully they will restore back to the old yahoo style of enough people complain. The new system seems to be getting a slamming from quite a few others on the net, |
| unc1esteve:
AdeV, I guess you are correct. Where I live the only internet provider is AT&T through old existing hard phone lines. My email address is Removed by a Mod to protect privacy I clicked on the agreement for AT&T. It appears that the actual internet connection is provided by Yahoo. This is the end of my internet knowledge. It may not be extortion. But when an employee of Yahoo tells me that I can get back what they have taken away for money, I first think of the word extortion. It is like the government. It needed to be done, it is only just a little bit, At least they are doing something. It could be worse. It seems that this bothers only several people like myself. I enjoy keeping up with other people that have the same interest as I do. Guess I will have to find another way. After all, they can do whatever they want. |
| chipenter:
The changes to mine mean that I can now access other groups , and find my way back without going through history , which was a pain . |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Previous page |