how do I get yahoo to stop deducting points whenever I ask a question?
344472
you get 3 points back when you pick a "best answer" for your questions, so you are really only losing 2 points.\n\nAlso, if you don't want to answer questions you can do those thumbs up or down ratings to get points.
269429
Go to my q&a and press delete question under the category "my questions
757878
That's not possible.  Yahoo has that there.\n\nI guess you could petition yahoo for the removal.
3064
Although points and levels urge people to use this more often it undoubtedly takes away from the accuracy and the seriousness of the Q&A.  Anyone can find a loophole to exploit points or you could be like myself and my other Q&Aers out there that honestly want to help people or give their opinions.
762375
If you are talking about the scoreboard on the Yahoo! browser, it's nothing to do with you. I'm having the same problem. It happens from time to time with Yahoo!
77594
lol let yahoo test their own bugs thats what they are there for. You just ask, answer, vote, and rate.
182545
Nothing.  Only psychological rewards.  Points scheme is ingenious on Yahoo's part--look at how motivated everyone is to get points!
153308
You have to refresh the page if you want to see your points after each question you answer. But even if you don’t refresh, yahoo is still keeping track. Your points are not lost.
57522
The only fix is to make it so when you ask a question, have yahoo automaticly search to see if other similar questions have been asked.\nIf they have, user needs to be alerted.\nA message like this might pop up.\n\nThe question you just asked appears to have been asked before (15 times).\n\nPlease click on one of these links to see if your question has already been answered.\n\nThen it should list all the similar questions in order and let them pick from the list.\n\nat or near the bottome could be the, no, THIS question has not been answered button..\n\nThis Might slow some of the idiots down.\n\nHow many times has the following question been asked...?\n\nHow many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?\n\nAnswer, so far the question has been asked 57 times, and counting.
285318
I don't know how you can get Yahoo to do anything, they pretty much have their own plan of action. However, you can persuade them to do something like answer abuse reports.  \n\nI don't also know how you can get them to answer ALL abuse reports but I do know that they take action on them.  Some of the abuse reports I've sent have been actioned on and those questions have been removed already. You can see this if you put the question on your watchlist or if you posted an answer to that question you want deleted, you will see in your answer list that it's been removed.
765547
I don't blame you one bit for being upset. When people report a question, often there is nothing wrong with it. It is one of the problems that Yahoo needs to address. I am sorry that happened to you and hope your day improves at it goes on. I have also had the experience that you are having and it annoyed me also.  I just tell myself that the points are worth nothing now and then I calm down. Take care.
81759
I have asked myself the same question.  \n\nI suspect that many of the people here are:\n\n1.  very young\n2.  have multiple accounts and are playing games for points accumulation.\n3.  Are looking for someone else to give them their homework answers (which would fit in to your lazy theory)\n\n\nPerhaps I'm wrong, but so many of the answers I've seen are shockingly sophomoric.  So much so that they could only have come from children.   Now, this could be a helpful tool for kids to seek input from others, but there really should be a mechanism in place to prevent some of the absurdity that is present.  \n\nFor example:  (Hey Yahoo, are ya' listening?)  If someone submits a post that is just ridiculous, the other members should be able to penalize the person who posted.  \n\nAnd, since so many of the answers to ridiculous items specifically make reference to thanking the poster for the two points, it would seem that the points matter.  So, I suggest that stupid posting just for the points be an offense that is punishable by a significant reduction in points, say 50 points!!!\n\nJust a thought!\n\nSorry Punchline.  Didn't mean to step on your toes here.  I do think that the laziness to which you refer and the game-playing that I referenced are linked.
1051757
if you want to remove the questions on the yahoo server click on that question and there will be a link delete thisquestion (you will lose 2 points for that) you can,t remove the question just from the list of q&a
541286
I've had a negative violation scorefor that kind of question.\nSo, you better remove it.
242134
I highly doubt they would.. And why would you want to.. When you signed up as your first account.. Yahoo gave you 100 points free.. So you only made one point while using that account??\n\nNot worth the bother..
442271
ask less and your points will go up cause if you ask more they subtract points..........
952950
Put me on your list of people, I was deleted a month ago, and I am sure it was done by clones and trolls that did not like the fact that I had reached level 7 and had 50,000 points. It took 3 weeks to get my account restored and it was all over the fact that I am a liberal and they disagreed with me. There is a blog in answers that was set up to address this problem and Yahoo does know that this is a problem. From what I read it is not just this category they are having the same problem in the religion section also. Last count they had over 300 postings on this subject.