Who agrees Yahoo Message Boards should be brought back?

Question

Who agrees Yahoo Message Boards should be brought back?

Answer 1

I agree. They were a lot more interesting than Yahoo Answers. ANd people could gage how other people felt about many issues.

Answer 2

i want them back. i need a good laugh. sorry if i offended anyone.

Answer 3

I believe so.  Most who used the message boards did not do so for the news.  They used the news as a backdrop with which to use for socializing.  So why won't Yahoo! go with the flow and give the users what they want?  Why not have an area of Yahoo! just for trolling?

I have a suggestion on how to reduce trolling (though not stop it).  Why not give everyone 1 post per story?  So if they want to comment, they have to make it good, since they only get one slot.  However, that could create more IDs to get around that limit.  But still, one post per user is better than not getting to share your voice at all like things are now.

Another idea is to set it up similar to Yahoo! Answers.  Have a way to gain levels with more posting privileges per level.  That will help prevent newly created IDs from joining to ruin things.

They can do other things like put a waiting period (1-2 days) on new accounts and new aliases being used to reply to the news.

Answer 4

The message boards were a wormhole in the vast darkness that is the internet. I miss it.

Answer 5

Where did they go. I just checked and they are still there and full of Spam.

Answer 6

I hope to see the message boards returned--but I fully understand Yahoops frustration with trolling--and with some of the excessivly abusive posts.  I don't think anyone has a problem with people making a lot of posts--if they are actually saying something--but it was often impossible to find posts that had anything to do with the story in question.

Yahoo needs, with any new version of the message boards, to have a way of enforcing their own "Terms of Service"--or of screening out some of the excessive trolling.  

The good news is that they say they are working on a new system--one that will address some of the problems.  I certainly hope so--the Yahoo boards, with all their faults, are one of the best places to botth express yourself and to find out what others are thinking.

Answer 7

The message boards should return, but with a real moderator who will eliminate trolls and spammers.  The biggest problem with Yahoo Message Boards was that no one enforced the Terms of Service policy.  No one held trolls and hostile posters accountable.  That can be fixed quite easily.

Answer 8

Count me out.  The world is a better place without them.

Answer 9

Yes, they should absolutely be brought back. How to do it properly is another issue altogether. One previous poster mentioned allowing only one post per story. That wouldn't work because it doesn't allow for the possibility of conversation and debate, just like this board.

Others have called for a moderator to help eliminate trolls. That's all fine and good, but where do you draw the line? What constitutes trolling vs. having a view that might be considered extreme (especially when it comes to politics)?

Answer 10

I agree they should come back, as they were, linked to the news stories.  Yes, they had problems with trolls and spammers - particularly the spammers who used remailers were out of control, trolls can be ignored.  The message boards linked to the news stories were the one unique thing about Yahoo which made me continue to return to and use it as a portal.

If you used the boards for even a short time, you figured out the obvious trolls and could ignore them and if you wanted intelligent discussion, you could find it - it just took some sifting.

There is a lawsuit against Yahoo regarding not inforcing  the TOS, but I've never been on a single message board where you didn't have to have a very thick skin and where personal attacks did not occur unless the messages were pre-approved by a moderator prior to posting.  

The guy who filed the suit needs to get a life and the boards need to come back.

And iIf they don't come back, I'll go somewhere else,

Answer 11

I wanted to troll the James Brown story... I heard O.J. vowed to find the real killers

Answer 12

I was lost for a few days until I changed my home page to aol. It is free, the e-mails and boards and other features. They have message boards, monitored, but  still they are linked to the news as we were accustomed to on Yahoo. You can discuss the news stories like on Yahoo. I have to admit I still liked my old troll friends better and I liked the way yahoo did the threads better. But Oh, well I am grateful to have some boards again. Yahoo blew it.The customer is always right.

Answer 13

I think the idea that "trolls killed the message boards" is a pretext for Yahoo's own lack of administration of its Terms of Service agreement. Had they really exercised oversight, then they wouldn't have come to the juncture of shutting off all expression.

Answer 14

Yes,most definitely.  I miss them alot.  I had some good debates and lots of laughs too.

Answer 15

I wish they would bring them back.  I have no clue what is happening in the world today.  That was the reason I started reading current events......But seriously, it was a FREEDOM that I miss seeing the view points from other people on issues that impact our lives.  BRING THEM BACK!