I got an email from MyBlogLog advising me to check Yahoo!’s adult use policy. The next day I noticed that three of my blogs were no longer showing traffic statistics. They all had either BDSM or fetish in their titles. I removed them.
Like most of my sites their language was very chaste. I forget the online tool I used but once I tested several of them and they didn’t register as even mildly risqué.
The one site that I would consider adult was still listed and showing traffic statistics. I removed it myself.
Like most large web entities MyBlogLog is incapable of discerning adult content from innocent sexual reference. By their standards the Mayo Clinic site is a cesspool.
On my related Yahoo! account I got a warning that I’d been reported as violating Yahoo!’s Terms of Service. I never violate anybody’s TOS.
Many years ago my primary email account was on Yahoo! One day they cancelled it without warning. Nor was any explanation available. My inconvenience was huge. And for years I stayed away from Yahoo!
Given this I’ll have to remove what business I do with Yahoo! – like domain registrations – elsewhere. You just can’t trust Jerry Yang. Ask his stockholders.
Colin Pye | 16-Dec-08 at 8:47 am | Permalink
Well, when you see an organization like Yahoo! calling itself Yahoo!, what did you expect? It’s not like they are hiding the fact they are just a bunch of Yahoos, are they?