I see them a lot in the Camera section, are they doing this simply for the "points", do they get paid for sending hits to a web-page, is it a more sinister conspiracy ;-)
Snorlax
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They're bots. They're programmed so that when a certain word is used in the question on an answer to the question they'll post that link to try and get hits for that site.
It's done for a lot of sites. That's just the most obvious one as it's done a lot.
There's some that will link to an item on amazon and give you all the details of that item. They will have been set up by a seller through amazon who's trying to sell their stuff on amazon.
They're just bots. Just report them and all will be good.
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Spammers. It's possible they are affiliate spammers, who get paid for click-throughs, so don't click their links.
Just report any of these you see.
You can also help out by finding the Spam Battle topic in the Suggestion Board:
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=answers
Anonymous
its an automated response system
these machines look for specific words and they will use that answers
dont click on them alot of the time there tracking adds and viruses
i know exactly what you are talking about its really annoying
and its a different user everytime
Sordenhiemer
Spam.
Elvis
we need to stop this
when we see them