Yahoo Answers Community Guidelines or Terms of Service?

I am confused about Yahoo Answers Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.

Someone on Yahoo Answers asked me why they did not have permission to play their DVDs in Windows Vista.

I got voted as the best answer when I posted a long explanation on how Microsoft has taken the media codecs to play DVDs out and how Linux includes these DVD codecs. I don't have enoulgh room here to post the whole answer I gave but you can find a similar copy of some of it on http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-wit...

I'm wondering if Yahoo is obligated to Microsoft not to allow anyone to talk about Free Software? They took 33 of my points for answering.

Original message below:

Hello Pomeroy L (pomeroylab)

You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. As a result, your content has been deleted. Community Guidelines help to keep Yahoo! Answers a safe and useful community, so we appreciate your consideration of its rules.

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Do you know Yahoo keeps only those users who pamper and praise Yahoo. Anyone who dares to speak truth is thrown out ?

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You have to realize that Yahoo Answers Staff that monitor these questions are more confused about their own rules than anybody else. They just don't know what they are doing and I wouldn't be surprised if they were volunteer idiots!
33 points? For one answer?

That seems a bit over the top, even for them.

The bigger problem is they merely react to a violation report. validity is not even a consideration
33 points? wow i would be so mad.y/a definitely has it faults