I heard yahoo was threatened with a lawsuit and caved in by shutting down discussion boards!?

Question

Anyone else heard this? The tyranny of the minority has finally affected me in my home! While former discussion board ranted about the patriot act, some offended tiny faction probably got a lawyer and had him send a letter to yahoo because they were offended. We now have to run our society by the standards of one or two people who get offended when their icecream is to cold.

To bad someone didn't sue to stop the shutting down of the boards and have left us with no good option to have heated discussions. We're much better off when we can trade verbal blows. There was an ignore option on the boards you can use if someone offends you! I call on yahoo to reestablish the boards with a working rec function for a change immediately. If you don't like the boards, stay away from them!

sincerly

pimpslapleftys

Answer 1

Who knows.   You can post anything, anywhere, including here, so  I doubt the lawsuit factor had anything to do with it.   People who were offended by any of the posts need not read them.

Answer 2

The dicusss feature was pretty useless anyway. Nothing but people bashing Bush then that person is labeled a liberal. Very boring.

Answer 3

Ok, thank you.

Answer 4

The whole premise of the discussion boards was a good one.  I initially enjoyed sharing thoughts with others about up-to-date news items.  However, it got so incredibly ugly.  No matter what you said there were multiple posts about how stupid your post was, that you are a libtard or neocon, people just aired they're filthiness on the boards.  I don't know why Yahoo shut it down.  I tend to think it was not due to a lawsuit but rather in disgust with the ones that reveled in posting hate.

I don't know if we will ever be able to have a place to have honest even 'heated' news discussion because so many seem to be hellbent on being mean, disgusting and hateful.  You see it even on this site though not to the degree of the discussion boards.