# What is it about Yahoo comments? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-yahoo-comments/598499 "2011-10-04T00:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-yahoo-comments/598499/21 "2011-10-07T00:58:44Z")
I’ve always wondered (or for a few years now) why most Yahoo answer pages are from 3 or 4 years ago? I can’t think of one Google sent me to that was less than a year old. So why is that? Why!? ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-yahoo-comments/598499/22 "2011-10-07T01:00:06Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Yahoo? > > Regular newspaper Web sites are filled with right-wing vitriol, usually basic talking points. For example, connecting such things as high school bullying and local zoning decisions on Obama and “socialists”, etc. Oooh yeah! Last week the local rag published one of my letters to the editor…a thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a guest editorial from some twerp who was trying to form a “College Republicans” chapter at the state’s largest university. (Well, at least my letter was as thoughtful & reasoned as it’s possible to be with a 200-word limit). The comments section in the paper’s online edition promptly filled up with vitriolic and mostly illiterate replies from the local wingnut brigade. Best one was from a lady who told me I was a _ **liberal fascist** _ :dubious: Still trying to figure out what that is, but it might make a good screen name somewhere… I was gratified by the next commenter who informed the lady that at least I was a far more erudite writer than she was. SS [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-yahoo-comments/598499.md?page=1)