Do you think we should get points for reporting legitimate "abusers"?
142853
no the abuse button would be abused.
218126
you have to report them with the report abuse link.\n\nor go here for the direct approach...\n\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/profile-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnUQp.9VCFos
1022546
Geia sou Vanessa W.!\nWell, you are correct, none should use something nor theirs, this is considered plagiarism and the scientific community is strongly against it! Well, at least they did not do something worse! But you are right, you/ we have to fin a way to create some "punishment" for such actions, I do not know if "Report Abuse" helps at all!\nAnd, you are correct, cute is not the prompt word, gorgeous shows some side of the truth!
53290
If you open your question, there's a link that says "Report Abuse" right under your name.  Good luck!
415472
There's a link in the site to report abuse. \nIf it's not a joke then just go to the police.
30632
newstudent is right. You should report the abuse right away to the police, Social Services, CPS, a teacher. Whoever is appropriate for the type of abuse should be notified. There is NEVER a reason for any type of abuse!
549692
well all anyone has to do is click on the report abuse thing and you get one.  I once got one for a question and it wasn't against anything, just I guess some one with a different political opinion got pissed and clicked it.\n\nand they are guidelines, not rules :P lol
32257
If the content you are posting is fair, then you'll pass all or nearly all of the abuse reports and you shouldn't get kicked. Plus, when a report is agreed with, you get a chance to respond to the report.\n\nI would hope that if somebody makes enough failed abuse reports, that they would lose the ability to make them for a good period of time (I'd suggest at least 6 months). This would, of course, have to be coupled with giving people better feedback on the reports they made, and reporting borderline cases shouldn't count against them.
450887
if someone reports it as an abuse and the yahoo bosses agree with that, yes.
932008
Hey Bad...absolutely...bet they wouldnt be as ready to hit that report button if they were identity known,lol...its a pile of BS and Y! would do better if they actually policed the reporters too...\n\nYou find out who your real mates are in times of Revolution and the like....;0)
205723
Yes.  But that would make them have to look at each case personally.  Hopefully this will give them some ideas on how to change the abuse rules.  Atleast so people will not be banned unfairly.\nOne more thing hopefully people wouldn't abuse the privilage.  If they did then it wouldn't be worth the effort of changing.
297198
In the yahoo abuse form when you report someone there is impersonation, that is what you are looking for.  Good luck!
395164
I've been thinking the same thing lately, and I think Y! Answers should not only have a 'best answer' option that rewards people for good answers (that they do now for 10 pts) but also the option to marks answers as 'bad answer' and take away points (maybe 3 points so it takes away the 2 points they got and a third point as a penalty) so people stop writing stupid and offensive answers just to get points.\n\nI've already reported 2 people for having rude and completely pointless answers, but I have no way of knowing if anything happened from those. Do you think people would abuse it if they were give the ability to mark 2-3 answers per question as 'bad answer'?
709045
I don't.  But there are some hardcore trolls who report questions and answers as "abuse" simply because they don't agree with the opinion, and simply because "they can".  Yahoo's reporting system leaves a lot to be desired.  They are suffering serious growing pains!\n\nWhat most do not realize is that Yahoo does not investigate the issues that are reported.  It's all on an auto-responder system.  An "abuse" is reported, an auto email is sent to the reporter and the abuser, they say they will investigate (they don't) they invite the abuser to "appeal" but never respond to an email of appeal, then the "offending" question or answer is automatically deleted.  By a robot!  No human is reading and exercising discretion over this process.  For the answer that quoted it was to be "fair" ... no, it's not fair when no one is even reading the reports.
1127248
you know what: WE SHARE THE SAME IDEAS....I WAS JUST THINKING OF THAT USELESS BUTTON TWO MIN AGO....you are absolutely right..however who in the world would give a damn about using report abuse????
386498
Yes.  However, I believe you get points (karmically) for both the kindness and putting up with the abuse.  Pray for the strength to stay kind.  Perhaps we should look up what Mother Teresa had to say about it.
434360
Under each answerer's avatar is a link that says "Report Abuse."\n\nMake sure you do it from the comment that is abusive and not some random comment the person made.