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How can Yahoo Answers screen out fake "celebrities" from posting on here?

I find it distracting to see obvious frauds claiming to be celebrities and asking and answering questions in bizarre ways. I don't object to any free speech at all, just the MIS-representation that one person is actually someone else. HOW can we be sure?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    When an actual celebrty asks something, there's a green "Official" icon under their username.

  • 1 decade ago

    The first person is correct. An actual celebrity would ask a memorable question and there would be a green "Official" under their picture. I don't think Yahoo! Answers people would like screen out fake celebrities, but we can do something good. We can try to ignore them and report them!

  • Rick R
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Unfortunately we can't. Yahoo! can look into those files and confirm, but the confidentiality thing prevents them from pointing it out to us, unless they give explicit consent to do so. Until they do something too outlandish or something that violates Yahoo! guidelines, they'll be there, the nut-ball nobodies who impersonate the narcissistic good-for-nothings and amazingly enough manage to make them temporarily look more arrogant, and self-important and ignorant than they ever could have been in real life.

  • 5 years ago

    Wow, you have been in basic terms required to study "1984" weren't you. yet, if there are any Feds "monitoring", pass get my yahoo e mail shop on with that up with a knock on my door and that i visit tell you to kiss my vast furry azz. You spend to plenty time in mommies basement, do no longer ya?

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  • i dont think yahoo can screen nor know who are the REAL celebrities in here and who are FAKE...

    most of the celebrities don't normally brag or tell their identity on the net.... except on their official sites...

  • fefe
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I really don't know anything about that because I've never seen a celebrity on here before, i wished i could but i can't say that i have. But you should know the celebrities wouldn't be here answering qustions at Yahoo!!! Do you really think they have the time to be here?? Or that they would even want to be here?? No i wouln't beleive it if i did see one on here, THANKS MY OPIEON

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I've often been annoyed at that too. Like when Ciara asked who she should do a song with and things like that. I bet the celebs have normals names on yahoo! answers (if they have a yahoo! account at all) and don't like the frauds.

  • Mark P
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Huh? You find Al Gore "questions" more distracting than chinadoll's avatar?

    unpossible.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is a good question.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    So what you dont think I am the real slim shady :(

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