OpenWebReviews of openweb.com

24/7/365 Russian spambots posting divisive anti-American rhetoric on both sides. Whether it's 'all libs suck' or 'all magas are fartwads' doesn't matter, openweb/yahoo is a morass of garbage spam all day all night all the time. Constant agitation posts run in shifts with brigading, auto-bot attacks, downvote attacks, and auto-report attacks. Half the time comments don't even load and format correctly, the other half of the time clicking on Edit or your Notification icon doesn't work. Unfathomably terrible.

After all the negative reviews here about this company, they have changed the way they operate. When you log into your account that uses the openweb platform, all your posts post. All your thumbs up or down show. Once you log out, all your posts are gone as well as any thumbs. No others ever see your posts. Log back in and all your posts and thumbs appear again. Amazing bit of slight of hand work I must say.

Yahoo hired this company to monitor comments on their news stories. OpenWeb does a terrible job. Their AI has set catch words or names that automatically block a comment based on their guidelines that are boilerplate ghibberish. They have a reply feature to a posted comment in my Yahoo email that is supposed to take you to the comment but only takes you to the story. You then have to scan through all the comments to find your original post. They have a link to send them a message regarding issues but after filling out the info lines there is no way to send it. Terrible Terrible Company.

Openweb is a completely biased business. Once they don't like you, you are auto-blocked from posting ANYTHING. I could write a review for an article about local pizza chains containing nothing that could even remotely seem out of bounds. It could be a glowing review, it'll be rejected because they don't like the things I stand for. I don't agree with shutting people down for petty differences. It needs to be fixed to CREATE open conversation, not save it in this fashion. Shutting out one type of people is not "saving conversation," it is creating a static and isolated point of view at the front and center. Boo dog. (my experiences come from yahoo! message boards run and policed by Openweb)

They were formerly SPOT.IM, rebranded to OpenWeb. They are highly discriminatory toward conservative points of view on Fox News comments and will permanently shadow ban users exhibiting these characteristics. Once OpenWeb shadow bans your account, there is no notice whatsoever; you become invisible on the internet on the platform they control. People that control others First Amendment rights in such a fashion are not real Americans. OpenWeb happens to be from Tel Aviv with an office in NYC. Which explains why their online anti-conservative and even banishing of conservatives happen within their online realm. These people have no business controlling American media. They are not American by the way they treat conservatives and their POV's.

Racism, ignorant bias mean comments, and lies are allowed but certain words even if truthful and not about a person are used the post and is flagged. Ai allows a comment like "all white people are dirty and eat poo with babies in it" but you can't say "Elon musk made a Nazi gesture" because of the use of the word Nazi. The Ai flags the wrong things but allows lies and hate to spread. It either censors or encourages rage.

OpenWeb's coding is garbage, their AI censorbot is garbage, and their support is nonexistent. I've used Yahoo message boards for over 25 years but once they switched to OpenWeb it's the worst it's ever been. Innocuous posts get flagged or outright deleted with no explanation and no chance to correct anything. Twice now I've had my account disabled and all posts are rejected, again without any explanation as to why. Their support, if they even have one, has not replied to a single DM sent. The world would be a better place if they went out of business completely.

I would give less than a star if I could... There AI is garbage.... Cant tell why 75% of posts rejects when I waste tons of time putting thoughtful responses to trash comments in articles. I have logged many abuse complaints with Yahoo as I cant believe they use them... They must be cheap.