Why so many people are abusing this yahoo answer service?
604671
There are people who will find a way to abuse anything in this life if they can. I won't answer questions which are obviously ridiculous or people who have a long list of absurd questions on this site who think it is a big joke. Plus I think there are a lot of children posting questions. I just try to help those I can whom I feel really need help, and ignore the people who are so desperate for attention, even if it is negative attention.
752881
That is because there is a band of not so smart not the majority party supporting type people running around clicking thumbs down on every answer. Within minutes of most answers being posted there will be several thumbs down trying to hide good answers because they aren't intelligent enough to debate the answers. \n\nAlso they try reporting you for violations of the rules even when you post a very legitimate question on certain topics that they disagree with.\n\nThis has turned into a joke as do most conversations with misinformed, biased, and uneducated folks.
102983
I just like helping people.  But, for others, if it drives them to provide good answers and participate in (and improve) the community I don't see the harm in it.  It is ashame when I see people answering questions with "I don't know" type answers just to get two points, but that is only because it harms the community and I see this as a great resource.
933424
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately the community is just too large and stupid one word answers and smart answers will always be a problem on here. There is just no way to stop it. I don't even think that reporting people is worth it because they can just come right back on in a different user name.  I'm glad there are people out there that do give honest answers and care about others questions
326190
I was thinking the same thing. Probably because they think it is funny, or want to see if there are people out there who take their sick stuff seriously. \nI believe most of those questions are in violition with the guidelines. A solution might be to report a question like that and if Yahoo feels the question is indeed violating their guidelines, the question will be removed. If pple do continue to ask those kind of questions, their id can be removed too by yahoo.\nTiff
935254
I'm very much with you on this one, I totally agree with you, there are some really stupid, sick and perverted people who post the most irrelevant questions, if at all they are a question, I just wish Yahoo would do something about them, why cant they just go to a different site and say what they really want to say on a more appropriate site.\n\nThere are young children who use this site all the time, many ask for help with homework, its hardly fair for them to see such stupid rubbish
464552
I detect bs here.  This question is thoughtful, correctly written, spelled and sounds innocent.  I'm guessing if you use lots of user names to ask questions you are trying to manipulate the system somehow.  I consider a sensible, worth-while question something the asker really wants to know.
454845
This could either be a really good, deep question or else you are kidding around.  This site is run by that giant internet and communication mega super power known as "Yahoo!" and they have designated the lucky few to police it as the Yahoo!Answers Team.
887656
YA blindly responds to abuse reports. I'm sure that no one ever reads the reports or responses to the report notifications. IMHO there is more abuse of the abuse button than there is on the sight.
23583
Yep!\n\nIt's getting kind of crazy. People is going to post so many non-sense question...\n\nBut it's cool though... They are doing it for the points. Just like I'm answering you :)
513822
There seems to be more than a fair share of very bored, simple-minded people here who love to rag on others...especially when they remain anonymous...doesn't take much courage to insult others when you think they cannot get a hold of you...Very childish, very dumb, very indicative of what kind of people they are. Ignore them and get on with your stuff. I get email occasionally from one jerk or another ragging on me ... they disagree with something I have said. I could care less..at least I have my email posted.
250298
Well limiting my answer to only this site, I would say a lot of folks on here are just playing it like it's a game, and going for the points that really get us nowhere...\nI don't understand why the points factor in anyway, we don't get anything out of it...\n\nPeople don't spell right because they don't try and they are in a hurry for whatever reason...\nAs little effort as is required to use the spell check feature, I don't know why they won't use it...\nI wish there was a way for Yahoo to make spelling correctly mandatory some way...\nI hate seeing so many words spelled incorrectly while I spend so much time getting all my answers to come out right and I use the spell check so I don't look dumb...\nI think a lot of folks just don't care either...
864373
It seems that some people are randomly reporting all kinds of answers that are not offensive.  Yahoo does not even check it out.  If you report someone that person receives a notice and their question or answer is removed.
227005
I think its the same small group of people asking inappropriate questions to get a reaction.  Then, Yahoo suspends their account, and they just reregister and post more questions.  We report them, they get suspended, they reregister.  \nIt could also be that some people see how "funny" it is and decide to mimic them.
327201
I don't think so, unfortunately all we dcan do is try to bite our toungues, ignore and reprot.  There's one person in here, he just asks the sickest of the sickest questions and there are just SOOOOO many of us that have reported him and reported him time and time again, but I don't know if yahoo is doing all they can or not.  These questons are so bad that it makes my stomach turn over time and time again.
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Or crack down on a person who joined Q&A today and has copied the same advertisement for his online store under, what I seen sofar, three different names.  I last counted 18 times in 2 hours his answers which have nothing to do with the question asked!  At least spam on the email site goes into a folder where you don't have read it.\nWhew! Sorry I had to vent. He goes under the names hu h,y  g, and y uy y
402759
In any new invention like Yahoo Answers, there's bound to be a glitch. Some people on the site like to ask gross or useless questions, which totally disregards the purpose of the website. On the plus side, people can get real answers to their questions fast. On the whole, the site is good, and I think other websites will jump on the bandwagon with Yahoo.