Yahoo Answers removed my account suspension, impersonator is banned

Weird stuff - after twice rejecting my appeal, Answers has now reversed my suspension.

Subsequent to my appeals rejections, I contacted a staff member at Yahoo Green (who coincidentally, I met through Huddler), who contacted Customer Care about my situation.  Linlyons also contacted Yahoo (customer care, I believe) on my behalf.

First the imposter account was banned yesterday, then this morning my account was reinstated.  So at least justice was done.

I'm still pretty sick of Answers.  Even though they corrected these errors, the fundamental flaws in the reporting system still exist.  And lately the questions being asked are rarely worth answering.  It seems like almost every "question" in the additional details insults Al Gore or calls global warming a hoax because some weatherman on CNN said so or because it snowed a little in Las Vegas.

I'll still answer some questions that are worth answering there, because I don't want the site to become a denier propaganda site.  But after just a day, the Huddler climate change forum has already become a much more worthwhile use of my time.  Very interesting discussions and I'm already learning a lot.

But at least we got a little justice on Answers.  Unfortunately the fundamental flaws with the site remain.

hey both my removed questions came back! of course they are buried down the bogroll now and ready only for 'best answer', but its worth complaining :D

edit; oh bother! no they didnt i was looking at the wrong ones. time to complain a second time. grrrr

You were banned?  To be honest, I grew tired of YA very quickly, so I'm sorry for not noticing!  I did spot your impersonator - rather rude of them, I thought.

Anyway thanks for the invite to join you here on Huddler.  I'm active on other forums, but I'll do my best to pop my head in here from time to time!

Michael

(Michael A on YA)

Hi Michael!  Yeah, I was banned for about a week or so, for the second time (first time was a long time ago).   I'm pretty sure the impersonator was Jello (who's also impersonating Bob).

James E has a second ID for anyone interested - Roger D, as you can see here.  The humorous thing is that he's not even trying very hard to hide it.  Roger D gives the same cut and paste answers as James E with the Spencer links and such, and he's done it in several questions.  The one I linked James did it with both IDs.

It's possible it's just a copycat, but who would want to copy James?  It looks like a thinly veiled second ID to me.  James, like many deniers, is just not too bright.