The Above QUESTION Stems From the Latest Deletion of a Q.

The Q:

I’ve had this Q Repeatedly Deleted From the Suggestion Board, I Will Ask it Here, I Recently had my Account -?
-(mdGreg C) Improperly and Arbitrarily Suspended, Do Have Any Recourse Other than the Y!As Faux Appeal Process?
•36 minutes ago
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From: Yahoo!Answers.Suggestion.Board.Admin.ta…
Subject: Your suggestion on the Yahoo! Answers suggestion board was deleted
Date: January 4, 2010 8:35:04 PM GMT-05:00
To: mdgregory1393551@aol.com

A board administrator has deleted the suggestion you placed on the Yahoo! Answers Suggestion Board.

Reason provided: Greg, as you’ve repeatedly been told, warned, and asked, please DO NOT post your account details or information on the suggestion board. YES, you do have additional options– they are to email the team– an address you have been given at least four times now– y_answrs_team@yahoo.com

You may also use the formal appeal process to which you are familiar with.

Thank you.

Suggestion topic: Account Suspension

I Recently had my Account (mdGreg C) Improperly and Arbitrarily Suspended, Do Have Any Recourse Other than the Y!As Faux Appeal Process?
33 minutes ago
I was Never Inform About Any of the Above.
31 minutes ago
Thanks See, "The Power Went to their Heads".
17 minutes ago
Sortry, Sas.
16 minutes ago
thejanith, I Have, and the TOS, I’m In Compliance.
1 second ago
Abuse of Power Again.
1 second ago
Sassy, I Placed it the Question Section, it is a Question. They Deleted it Because they didn’t Like it.

Chirp, I’m Not Offended, I’m Pursuing Options, I’m Not Very Hopeful. The Y!A Employee Makes Things Up, Like Violating a Q of Mine as "Spam", This is Obviously Not True, You can Read the Q for Yourself:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkhJDhGW9.DFVZq.heKoYPvty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100101065935AA1Ab2j
9 minutes ago
Sorry Chirp, the Original Question:

I Just Saw this Ad, "Zylotrim" (MSNBC), Another "Powerful" Weight Loss Supplement (See Below)?
[Link to Website Deleted.]
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More:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bgs1ZZd…
1 second ago
Chirp, the Original Violation Notice:

Hello Greg,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Answers Customer Care.

Your content was deleted for spam.

In Yahoo! Answers you may not post links with the purpose of directing
commercial activity to a non-Yahoo! site or an email address.

On review of your case we have decided not to reinstate your content.

Please refer to the Answers Community Guidelines and Yahoo! Terms of
Service for further information on participating in Yahoo! Answers.

We appreciate your contribution to making Yahoo! Answers a valuable
knowledge search product.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Answers Customer Care. Your case
number for this issue is 67293915. Please reference it in all future
communication about this particular issue.

Regards,

Bjorn Dylan

[I Strongly Suspect that this Led to the Suspension of my Account.]
Yahzmin (US) [busy], Again, I’m Not Offended, it is a Question, as You No Doubt Know. About the Links, Just Trying to Be Thorough.
1 second ago
More Abuse of Power, I Tried to Go to: y_answrs_team@yahoo.com, but Couldn’t Get There.
1 second ago
Sorry, I Treated the Above as a Webaddress, I Have Emailed Them.
1 second ago
Got This:

Hi mdGreg,
The question you asked on Yahoo! Answers was reported by the Answers community:
"I’ve had this Q Repeatedly Deleted From the Suggestion Board, I Will Ask it Here, I Recently had my Account -?"
This question has been removed. You may not have realized this, but all questions submitted on Yahoo! Answers must comply with the Answers Community Guidelines.
If you believe that your question does not violate the Answers Community Guidelines, and would like to appeal the removal of your question, you can have your case reviewed by Answers Customer Care. You have 7 days to submit your appeal.
Appeal this decision:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/appeal?qid=20100104175506AAzDuXE
Thanks,?Yahoo! Answers Team

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"A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".
‘When you’ve Got a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.’
Yahzmin (US) [busy], your Prior Response Speaks for itself:

Another answer you won’t like, I’m sure.

1) First, the original ‘question’ that got the violation was not a question "I Just Saw this Ad, "Zylotrim" (MSNBC), Another "Powerful" Weight Loss Supplement (See Below)?" Simply putting a question mark at the end of a statement does not make it a question.

2) Additionally, posting links to product sites is considered SPAM, so yes, that broke the rules. So did posting the youtube link, which is also considered soliciting (because ‘hits’ on youtube are recorded and used to rate videos).

3) Posting your email address on this site is a violation of the rules as well (privacy invasion), even if it is YOUR email.

4) The appeal process is not ‘faux’, as many, many users have successfully used it, including myself.

5) You have an issue number — use it to email the staff as directed. ONLY THEY can help you in any way. Posting this repeatedly on this site or th
Chetak., Talk With Yahsmin About Rules.
Thanks K, she has Decided What a Question is.
From Above:

"Reason provided: Greg, as you’ve repeatedly been told, warned, and asked, please DO NOT post your account details or information on the suggestion board. YES, you do have additional options– they are to email the team– an address you have been given at least four times now– y_answrs_team@yahoo.com"

I never Was Informed About Any of the Above, they Could have Provided Evidence of their Contention, But didn’t, I’m Supposed to take the Word of people Who Have Demonstrated that they can Not Be Trusted to Be Truthful. Again, "Excuse me, but your Word isn’t Good Enough".
Still No Response From the Y!As Team (y_answrs_team@yahoo.com)
Th Letter:

I Recently had my Account (mdGreg C) Improperly and Arbitrarily Suspended, I Have Another Y!A Account, Recently Created, I Wish to Recover All my Qs & As.

Greg Carpenter
[Email Deleted]

[I Need to Wait]
Now, It is Needed to Keep people From Pushing their Scams On this Site, the Honest Pay the Price, By Having the Questions Deleted and Accounts Suspended, Because Someone, In Power Thinks they MIGHT Be a Scam, One Needs to Actually READ the Question. No Doubt, to Some the Points Have a Lot of Meaning, but to me they Are Worthless, Except for Increased Privileges.

2) Additionally, posting links to product sites is considered SPAM, so yes, that broke the rules. So did posting the youtube link, which is also considered soliciting (because ‘hits’ on youtube are recorded and used to rate videos).
Still No Response Today, Becoming Even More Telling. But you can’t Shame people With No Shame.
Still No Reasponse from the Y!A Tem after Over 1 Week and a Day, From Suspension, this is the Typical Unresponsiveness of an Arrogant Bureaucracy, When they Realize they don’t Have an Answer. Perhaps they Gave Themselves an Excuse that I was "Ranting" (See Yahsmin’s A Above) ("Blame the Person").
The Question is no Longer About the Y!A Criteria, but a Person In the Bureaucracies’ Criteria (See Yahsmin’s Initial Response Above).
Sorry, "Yahzmin".
BTW, A Suggestion I Got Elsewhere:

?Anyway, the content is technically yours, but Y!A will keep it on their servers as they see fit (*somebody* went the extra step and deleted all my content knowing I wanted it for future use).??These folks won’t tell you how to get your content because they are tight with staff and probably were the ones that reported you. Use this URL for your questions:??http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo&results=50&start=0&user_id=AA11884807??You get 50 at a time, then change the parameter "&start=" to 51, 101, 151 etc.??Use this for your answers:?http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo&filter=answer&results=50&start=0&user_id=AA11884807??Search "Yahoo Answers API" at userscripts.org if you want a script that can help a little bit (but not much in this case).
Sorry, add this parameter to the URLS above: "&output=rss". Some RSS readers (and Opera) will take the URLs and give you a feed or search

Would just like to comment on the blind compliance to the supposed rational rules here at Y!A. Seems these answerers mostly step on her own dinks for the "good" of Y!A staffer credibility. Really paints Yahoo staff with a dumb stick, if you ask me.

Let’s use Yahzim’s answer you copied into this Q, mdGreg C, as an example of what I am referring to, here.

"Another answer you won’t like, I’m sure.

1) First, the original ‘question’ that got the violation was not a question "I Just Saw this Ad, "Zylotrim" (MSNBC), Another "Powerful" Weight Loss Supplement (See Below)?" Simply putting a question mark at the end of a statement does not make it a question."

[Looks like someone needs a wee bit more time having real conversations with others? Some additional social experiences? Some more time in school? All statements, see, but still questions. How about this: "another powerful abuse of power?" Is this a question? Well, in reality it is. Maybe not in la-la land. When a statement has a question mark at the end of it, it becomes a question. Or, are these just not questions in the fantasy land minds of Y!A staffers. I have no idea].

"2) Additionally, posting links to product sites is considered SPAM, so yes, that broke the rules. So did posting the youtube link, which is also considered soliciting (because ‘hits’ on youtube are recorded and used to rate videos)."

[This may be *considered* or *believed* to be spam, but it is NOT, clearly. I mean, is this *really* not crystal clear? Read the original f@cking question that led to "suspension". Also, if people who used youtube or other links as a source were all suspended??, pffft, there would be no users and no site.]

"3) Posting your email address on this site is a violation of the rules as well (privacy invasion), even if it is YOUR email."

[An invasion of privacy of your own privacy? An invasion on your own privacy that YOU have agreed is not an invasion of privacy is still an invasion of privacy. Give me a break. This one REALLY is a no-brainer, devoid of any logic, what so ever].

"4) The appeal process is not ‘faux’, as many, many users have successfully used it, including myself".

[Bull. Why is it that almost all people who get deleted (what "suspension", really means) NEVER get their accounts back. Are Y!A staff that good at determining who is in violation, even though "reports" are wholely based on community reports? Guess there are no trolls here. Guess erroneous reporting very rarely if ever happens here. Guess this was a valid violation, too: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avm0yi4HTq_xxFEYtWGvDJDpYH1G;_ylv=3?qid=20100105211434AAkfAbJ Guess the word, "troll" is just something made up and most people here do not have multiple accounts and target people they dislike. Oh, if only Y!A would review supposed violating Q's and A's FAIRLY, or at all. In any event, there is too much evidence to the contrary to support Yahzmin's contention that the appeal process has been successful for "many, many users". If this were true and it WAS fair, mdGreg C would have his account back, already].

"5) You have an issue number — use it to email the staff as directed. ONLY THEY can help you in any way. Posting this repeatedly on this site or the Suggestion Forum is spamming (again) and ranting — and therefore another violation."

[Gee, now asking a Q, that is deleted for nothing in the forum, is spamming? A question posted in the question section is ranting, too? Can't keep up with the blatant arbitrary, inconsistency of the "rules", here].

It appears, mdGreg C, that Y!A staff have been too lazy to read your original Q. Now, you have ticked them off, so they are abusing their power to justify what is CLEARLY unjust. Hope it is not that they just aren’t smart enough to see your Q as one merely querying the validity of an obvious scam, that started this whole mess, in the first place. That would be a real shame.

EDIT: Gee, thumbs-down in the Yahoo Answers section patrolled by Staffers and "blind compliers". What a surprise.

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I can’t find this product anywhere else on the internet, not even on the York Fitness website! It looks like a very well priced electromagnetic Cross Trainer, but I would like to see some reviews before I buy one. Can anyone provide more information?

This what your looking for?

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/shop/sport_and_leisure/home_fitness/cardio_work/eliptical_striders/109904353_york_xc530_elliptical_cross_trainer_and_cycle_system.html?network_id=cj&source=cj&affiliate_id=2292383

You can all go to www.makeupalley.com and there are whole forums devoted to everything from skin care makeup, fashion, fitness etc etc There is also a product review database that everyone contributes to. You are absolutely wasting your time here.

OH and you get your answers faster. This is not an Add I’m a member, I just saw that everyone was asking their questions here and I was wondering why in gods name they would do that when there is a far better FREE source

www.makeupalley.com

I’m pretty sure there’s probably a website devoted to EVERY topic discussed here…including men who like to b*tch. So see…there’s somewhere else YOU could be, too.

I am very active…and an intense exercise program, which I have been very focused..however, want to see more results…it adds a little motivation…

A friend that I just met, claim they have done very well with the weight loss with this product, I am looking for reviews…and hopefully successful reviews that the product does work.

Thanks

I have been through it all and know what’s it about. The main thing is to stick in there. You can’t be an addict to food and never exercise if you want to live a healthy life and keep the weight off. I’ve worked out, done every diet, and all types of classes.

Nothing works, besides dedication and intelligence towards the subject of losing weight.

First, depending on how much weight you need to lose, your diet is the first concern. You can’t eat 10,000 calories a day and expect the weight to come off, even if you are exercising a lot. Which brings us to the next thing. Duh, Exercising…

This is a must especially if you need to a lot of weight. Get at least 30 mins of some good hardcore exercising. Do some cardio, in the long run, it’s good for the heart.

However, I find the most hardest part of losing weight/keeping it off, in my diet. It’s so hard to keep your fingers out of the cookie jar or those chocolate goodies. I’ve found a great addition to help any one out, it’s a natural weight loss supplement called Proactol. Now don’t get all crazy on me and say diet pills don’t work. That is true, but not in this case. This one isn’t meant to burn pounds while you sit on the couch. It’s an appetite suppressant, along with being a fat binder. I saved money on the pills at theweightlossplace.com along with getting some good info. It basically makes those fingers not go towards the cookie jar. For me it’s the best pill I’ve tried and I’ve tried cupboards full. Now this doesn’t mean you have to follow my foot steps but I’ve successfully lost roughly 70 pounds and keeping it off til this day.

Well good luck and remember what I said, Dedicate

I am looking to sell a large handful of used tools. I have the basic info like amps, volts, rpm, etc., but I can’t find any more reviews or product info for, say, a Makita 4301bv jigsaw model. Does anyone know where I can find information on older model tools?

“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again,
but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain
of water springing up to eternal life.”

hi, i have had way larger than normal nipples/tissue surrounding the nipple area all my life and i would like to know how to get rid of that that doesnt involve expensive surgery.

I have been looking at a product called Ultimate Gynemax and i see alot of good reviews and stuff on it but im ALWAYS skeptical about weight loss and fat burners that claim to make you lose alot of weight really fast. i know alot of those kind of things can be dangerous. Does anyone know of anything you can do for this condition besides the obvious lipo suction? or does anyone know anything about Ultimate Gynemax? "which is suppose to really help with the condition if not cure it completely". I am somewhat overweight but you can really tell my nipples are way larger than they’re suppose to be. My estrogen levels in my blood sample were higher than normal but my doctor said that my fat cells were storing extra testestorone that was being converted into estrogen thats all i know about that i dont know if that could be causing this condition or not.

People say that surgery is the only real answer.

There are a lot of products out there but no surefire ones.

Things that might work are injections to disolve the fat, and chemical strips.

In all honesty though the 50/100$’s you spend on pills could pay part of the surgery cost.

The foundation I bought is called "American Beauty" foundation and is only sold at Kohl’s, I believe.

It’s a mineral foundation, color medium… I was looking up the product after I bought it, to see how others liked it, because I personally like it very much - it’s one of the best mineral foundations I’ve used to date.

But in one of those reviews, I read something that scared me - it said that this foundation has parabens in it, which can cause cancer (or has been linked to cancer, or something like that)

I love and rely on this foundation - my face has acne scars which this covers up very well. How high are the chances of developing cancer after using this product? Is it something to worry about? Help please! Thanks

btw, if it matters, there are 7 grams of foundation in each container. I’ve only bought one, and have not used too much of it yet. (maybe one or one and a half grams so far)

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Soda fountains contained fecal bacteria, study found

(CNN) — It fizzes. It quenches. And it could also contain fecal bacteria.

Nearly half of the 90 beverages from soda fountain machines in one area in Virginia tested positive for coliform bacteria — which could indicate possible fecal contamination, according to a study published in the January issue of International Journal of Food Microbiology.

Researchers also detected antibiotic-resistant microbes and E.coli in the soda samples.

"Certainly we come in contact with bacteria all the time," Renee Godard, lead author of the study and professor of biology and environmental studies at Hollins University, a private liberal arts college in Roanoke, Virginia. "It’s simply that some bacteria may potentially cause some disease or gastrointestinal distress. One thing we hesitate with is that people get afraid of bacteria. Many of them are benign or helpful, but certainly, I don’t want E.coli in my beverage."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s drinking-water regulations require that all samples test negative for E.coli.

Many of the soda beverages from the dispensers fell below U.S. drinking-water standards, according to the findings.

"The large number of beverages and soda fountain machines containing E. coli is still of considerable concern… and suggests that more pathogenic strains of bacteria could persist and thrive in soda fountain machines if introduced," the authors wrote.

Godard and her colleagues acquired 90 beverages of three types, (sugar soda, diet soda, water) from 30 fast food restaurants in a 22-mile area near Roanoke, in southern Virginia. They surveyed beverages from both self-service and employee-dispensed machines and the samples were tested.

There were no reported outbreaks of food-borne illness related in the Roanoke area at the time of the study.

They found that 48 percent of beverages obtained from soda fountains contained coliform bacteria, 11 percent contained E. coli (which are mostly harmless, but some can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness and pneumonia), and 17 percent had Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (which could sicken newborns or adults with weakened immune systems).

Dean Cliver, professor of food safety emeritus at University of California Davis, said it would be premature to draw broad conclusions about all soda fountains from a localized study.

"How sanitation regulations are promulgated and enforced in a community are different," Cliver said. "Some communities are more on to it than others. How much of a threat it represents? It’s probably limited. Once again, it’s a matter of what regulations are in place, who pays attention and whether it’s being followed."

The samples were contained in petri dishes and the bacteria multiplied within 48 hours, so much so that they became visible to the naked eye as 300 to 400 tiny dots, Godard said.

A Hollins undergraduate microbiology student accidentally discovered that water from a restaurant beverage dispenser contained bacteria while completing a homework assignment. When the results came back, this piqued the interest of faculty and students.

The researchers are uncertain how the bacteria got inside the beverage machines.

"It could be from dispensing with a hand that wasn’t clean or using wet rags to wipe down the machine," Godard said. "We haven’t done the work to really identify those potential sources and how these bacteria get established."

Manitowoc Foodservice, one of the leading manufacturers of ice and beverage equipment, did not have the opportunity to review the study, but released this statement in response to CNN.com’s questions: "We emphasize in our product support material proper methods for and the importance of frequent, thorough cleaning and sanitizing of foodservice equipment. In food equipment as in any environment where microorganisms can occur naturally or be spread by contact, it is essential to follow proven steps for cleaning and sanitizing."

The National Restaurant Association, a business association for the restaurant industry, e-mailed this statement in response to the findings: "While the results of this study are disconcerting, we feel that it isn’t representative of our industry and that our guests can safely enjoy beverages from dispensers and single-serve containers alike."

The American Beverage Association made this statement: "Fountain beverages are safe. Consumers can rest assured that our industry’s fountain beverages pose no public health risk." The organization, which represents hundreds of beverage producers, distributors, and franchise companies stated that "Importantly, our industry meets, and often exceeds, all government health standards in bringing its products to market."

Whether other outbreaks have occurred because of contaminated soda machines is difficult to determine, because food-related illnesses are notoriously challenging to

When they say "fecal bacteria" it makes you think on a psychological level that you’re drinking shit (pardon the language, sorry) but that’s just there on purpose to gross you out of drinking soda. If you were really drinking feces, you’d know it. When you drink tap water, you’re drinking water that likely was used to clean someone’s butt (but its been treated first). You’re drinking "fecal bacteria" yes but you aren’t drinking "feces" and if you are drinking feces then its something like 1 ppm (1 part feces for every 1 million parts everything else).

Think of someone who takes a dump and washes their hands but some "feces" particle was still on their hands even though they wiped with paper and didn’t go anywhere near the feces when they wiped and they washed their hands well too. Typhoid Mary managed to spread typhoid even though she washed her hands after using the bathroom (and that’s spread through the feces), yet none of her customers / clients complained that they were eating "crap".

I wouldn’t be surprised if an article like this was paired up with ads advertising bottled water / drinks. I wonder who stands to gain from it?

I am thinking about adding a diet supplement to my weight loss plan. I’ve found many positive and many negative reviews of the product. Just wondering if anyone has tried it. their results, or any other supplements that you’ve had a positive experience with…..

Diet pills are a waste of money, don’t work, and some are actually bad for you with nasty side effects. No pill, potion or supplement will help. Please don’t fall for all the spam adverts you see.

All you need is a good healthy diet - lots of fruit and veg, and exercise. It takes time and motivation:)

Hi, there is not too much information out there about mens skin care tips that are not just product reviews. I am looking for a full system or method that will help me cure my acne or at least help my skin look alot better. Thanks.

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