An Answers Poster asks Yahoo Answers

From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 5:11 PM
Subject: Violations

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Dear Yahoo,

Many of us in the poetry section have become targets and are receiving
multiple violations everyday - some from Q's or A's that are years old.

Many of us don't even bother posting questions out of fear of having
our accounts suspended

To say it is disheartening is a vast understatement. If you can't get
a handle on it or change the rules somehow, you are going to lose us.
Your advertisers will notice such things and spend their budgets with
sites that are more user-friendly.

That you give one person the power to do this with one click is
something I do not understand. You trust them forever because their
'history' was always accurate? That is known site-wide - and some of
them did exactly that so they could then have the power to go after
the rest of us.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.
TG - Uh Huh

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From: Yahoo! Answers Team
To: TG
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: violations



How does Community Moderation work?

This article describes moderation of questions & answers in Yahoo
Answers community. Community reporting empowers reliable Answers users to help us more quickly remove inappropriate questions & answers. Members of the community who reliably identify and report questions and answers will
have more influence than others.

Thanks,
-- Yahoo! Answers Team

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From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: violations

These are quotes from you Guidelines:

If a question or answer is reported by one or more reliable users,
it will be removed.

I have one account only - I know of people who have had over 100 accounts.

We try blocking the ones we know are doing this, but it's completely
ineffective; they merely create new accounts and attack us with those
ones.

Oh, and thank you for the form letter reply.

TG

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From: Yahoo! Answers Team
To: TG
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Violations

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Dear TG,

It appeared you assumed that somehow people were given power to remove
content with one click, so we assumed you hadn't seen the way CM
actually worked.

Thanks,
-- Yahoo! Answers Team

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From: TG
To: Yahoo! Answers Team
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: violations

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Yahoo,

No, I didn't assume that at all. I just know that one person who
managed to garner himself more than one blue ribbon for reporting
genuine violations has done just that with two or more of his multiple
accounts. It is with those accounts, one person is able to report the
same question or answer two or more times. Did you not read the very guidelines you referred me to?

Thanks,

TG

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