why is "report abuse" a waste of time?
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I don't know - would you care to enlighten us?\n\nEdit:\n\nLOL  No I couldn't do that to you George... You haven't been abusive enough yet ... ;)
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in the chat rooms there is a button to report abuse
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I find that many of the violation notices people get are due to one or more of these things: spite, inappropriate content, obnoxious questions/answers, or misunderstandings.  I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if at least some of these people ask bad questions just to get answers that are conceivably reportable, so they can get a kick/power rush out of it.\n  As for answering only serious questions, that's an excellent idea.  After all, it's hard to dig a violation out of anything intelligent.
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I agree.... People have questions.. People give answers... then it's .."so reported"... come on... every answer is a good answer.. eventhough it MIGHT not be the that Person was looking for... Hey... I say to them.... If you want to only get the answer your looking for.. then you don't need to ask a question.. you already know the answer.....  I say Yahoo remove the Abuse report function.... let's get real...
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It's some person here who has caught the fancy of some Yahoo functionary who takes the Community Standards to heart.\n\nIf ENOUGH of us, Atheist, Christian, Muslims, etc. complain to Abuse eventually Yahoo will look into to it and see if there is a pattern of abuse.\n\nYou want to make an effort, report it to your local TV news and see if someone takes an interest and does a TV report.\n\nTake it up with 60 Minutes, 20/20 and Dateline\n\nIt's OBVIOUS that this is making Yahoo Answers slanted and biased.\n\nThe other option is for us all to start reporting EVERYONE and ANYONE who violates the rules until Yahoo has to hire 5,000 people to handle it all.\n\nIf we tie them up researching 200,000 questions they won't have time to delete things.\n\nAs far as I see, RESOLVED questions never seem to get deleted\n\nThat's another avenue.  Resolve them quickly!\n\nSo, you can REPORT Yahoo to the News MEdia\n\nWe can TIE up yahoo with 1,000,000 complaints on questions and answers to make it impossible for them to do things in a timely fashion\n\nWe can obey the rules like good little soliders under the watchful eye of Big Brother\n\nOr we can do nothing except complain, like you have!
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I have been reporting those people for three days in a row now.  I am not sure if something is going to be done about it or not.  Everyone should be reporting abuse and refusing to answer the questions.
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Just push the ignor button and also the report abuse one  too....It helps if you can send the Yahoo I D of the person...The Yahoo 360 Staff are great, they do take action....V
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report it as abuse and write description in the box
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If someone has reported an abuse and the report can be justified, Yahoo will be quick in deleting it. I have reported a couple of abuses and Yahoo was quick to respond. Did not do it to you for sure
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Click on the report abuse link by the answer
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Reported to abuse. Inappropriate to guidelines, miscategorized, asked twice.
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I don't know...report abuse.
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Report it to: abuse @yahoo.com
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i'm about the thumbs up thumbs down, "reporting" is to much of a waste of my inteligence. \n\nwho else agrees that we need a middle finger up there with the thumbs?? lmao!!
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Yes they should because some respondents are just playing around and are not serious in answering serious questions. Yahoo should have a "response to the responses" so that one can express his "piece of mind".\n\nBut I think there si such thing like the "report abuse" license for undesirable responses.
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Someone must have reported it for some reason.  When you send an "abuse" report, the computer can just delete the question.  There are no people monitoring it.
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The reporting function works well, that is Yahoo's monitoring.  I do think they should delete not only the questions, but suspend the member if they continue.