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Sue
Lv 4
Sue asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

How can a user be at 10,717 points, level 6 and have one only best answer?

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=AmOQR1...

This is the link to the users profile. I first looked at his profiile as I noticed he had answered every question I had looked at in the last half hour with the same link to a website. He was the first person to answer all of the questions. He has answered 5,248 questions - all with the same link to the same website as far as I can tell by random sampling.

Is something rotten in the state of Denmark or what?

Update:

And right on cue.... as soon as I post this question - his answer pops up!

Update 2:

Well obviously its a bot, but the first I have noticed here and I have suddenly realised the bit that puzzled me - its cracked the system to collect points so it can answer more questions and spam us more.

Update 3:

Do you think if we all report it for advertising it will be klled or is this the beginning of the end of ad-free answers?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Someone cracked Yahoo Answers' system. It's one of those bots/automatic things..

    Edit: Lol, it's funny seeing that thing post what you just posted about it.

  • 1 decade ago

    I was thinking the exact same thing i just looked at his profile 5 minutes ago, this guy has been on answers religiously for 3 days straight just copying and pasting the same answer, he probably has no social life or life full stop!!

    and its getting very annoying as well, he keeps putting the same link to that stupid website, i think it is his website and his trying to get as many hits as possible.

    Lets get him banned!! hehe

  • 1 decade ago

    This is not a person, it is a program. This thing has picked up about 9,000 points so far today, which means it has put tiself into about 4500 answers, and the day is not over. It may very well be up to 15,000 points by the end of the day at least, maybe more.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I clicked on Man's profile earlier this morning. His point total then was around 5,000 points. He must be using a computer to spam Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo! Answers will probably be flooded with Abuse Reports.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i will't talk for different individuals, perhaps they are in simple terms involved in the factors, in step with probability they at the instant are not imaginitive adequate to return up with good questions. i do no longer understand. i will talk from own adventure once I say that a lots bigger share of my questions get deleted than my solutions. i do no longer hardship beautiful to any extent further so except I truthfully want an answer, or whilst i'm in slightly a playful temper lol, i do no longer ask that many. in simple terms considered your added information. in case you study the blogs as to the in many situations occurring of questions Yahoo envisaged being asked here, they seem to be a talk of an intellectually severe nature. reading your added information now makes me now question this very ethic, ought to Y!A have been designed for such questions, i'm specific the mind of it relatively is person's could make the international out of date interior each and every week lol i've got on no account understood that monkey expression. i've got heard it suggested appropriate to the completed works of William Shakespeare. Theoretically, a monkey could style up Titus Andronicus in it relatively is entirety apart from a unmarried "typo" in the midst of one/3 act. Discard of this rubbish and re-style it in it relatively is finished 21,000 observe style. i will't see the place the substance from one in each and every of those conventional argument comes from. hang on, i think question seventy 5 coming near lol

  • 1 decade ago

    Meh...just get used to it. Nothing on the web is sacred anymore. Everything is filled with ads and bots. Just ignore it. You report this guy. He gets kicked off. Tomorrow, a new guy replaces him.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it's automated, if you click the right mouse button over this page and select 'View Source' it gives you the coding behind it. It's not difficult from then on to automatically generate answers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I suspect that the person is using an automated program to answer new questions

  • 1 decade ago

    Its just a bot advertising, you have those in chatrooms too

  • 1 decade ago

    Who gave him a best answer?

    We need to egg their house too.

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