Why does Yahoo allow the questions and answers to be private?

Well, who cares! Yahoo allows free stuff like this so that they can try to sell you something over the Internet, but are you really getting something free, because I'll bet that Yahoo knows whether or not it is making any money from its internet users...

This was posted in the cricket section...Been reported many times and has been there for a good 16 hours. Do YA have double standards or do they just not care? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…

but if i make a offensive comment by calling democrats less than savory, i get a violation notice? hey, yahoo, those people are offending me by accusing bush of being behind the ...show more

Also sometimes they don't let you post up links, but other times they do...

I ask guideline abiding questions and lose 5 points and they never appear. I've lost about 25 points or so just tryin to ask 1 question. I look around and find questions that are inappropriate being posted yet mine aren't. It's as if they are punishing...

My question was deleted because it contained Spanish. I wasn’t asking anything inappropriate or offensive and the Spanish was essential to my question. It wasn't even all in Spanish. I feel that not allowing languages besides English unnecessarily...