"A rude, noisy or violent person". That's the definition of "yahoo" and, after slumming

[Atticus]

through the blatantly racist comments on the Yahoo site, I see why they chose that name.

[ananda]

1. Yup. Straight out of Gulliver's Travels.

Wiki: Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver. He finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable.

[genxlib]

2. They have always been the worst

Among main stream news feeds.

It is almost as if they are drawn to the name

[GoCubsGo]

4. It's been like that since the 1990s.

Right wing organizations have been paying people by the post there for decades, so it's not surprising that they're still posting their racist shit there.

[live love laugh]

6. I left yahoo long ago. I played games there but it became rife with cheats.

Typical Republicans.

[live love laugh]

5. Well that perfectly describes Donald Trump. nt