How is it fair, yahoo closes my account for "advertising", and someone can advertise their screenplay?

Question

yahoo closes my account after i answer a question about beauty products. she asked which was the best make up remover. so i gave her my honest answer. but then i'm reading the yahoo home page and they have a question from an author talking about grief and her screen play. what is the difference, why is her's ok and mine isn't?

Answer 1

The difference is that you got caught and she didn't -- plain and simple. Some people seem to get away with hundreds of violations posting explicit questions in Polls & Surveys while others get suspended after just one. The rules might be hard and fast, but the way in which they are enforced is severely lacking in consistency. For example, I have never lied about my age to get into any services for which I wasn't qualified, yet my accounts have been suspended while there's this boy who claims to be 14 who has been posting with a real picture, his 360 link visible on his profile, for the past 9 months! I'm sure he'll get suspended someday, just as the person about whom you are speaking probably will too, but sometimes it's actually the not-so-bad ones like you and I who go down ahead of the real abusers.