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Community Guideline violations?
Like many others, I have received a "points off" notice for a violation which, for the life of me, I can't find in the guidelines. As an example, I referred one questioner to my profile to get an answer I had previously give to someone else. This earned me a slap on the wrist. What's the violation? Yahoo invites a response if I think the penalty was in error, but has yet to respond to my question about it. Anyone have a clue?
Is it possible someone is masquerading as Yahoo?
5 Answers
- keeLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Can you provide a link to the answer and question that you're talking about?
UPDATE: Thanks for sending the answer via e-mail. I think you had a word and a phrase in the answer that may have either offended someone or could have easily been misinterpreted by someone - thus reported as abuse.
It's so weird how this is abuse system is working out. I guess they'd rather have you lean toward paranoia and be extra careful with wording than the opposite - an interesting censorship tactic. Or maybe the system just needs some tweaking and some people have to suffer until it's fixed.
Either way, I'm sorry this happened and I encourage you to continue helping people who come to Yahoo! Answers.
Hey John, you may want to check out this link to help you in this issue:
- 1 decade ago
Hi John,
I cannot for the life of me, figure out where your true violation lies. I see nothing wrong with how you handled your answer.
It seems that the TRUE violators, post time and time again, without punishment from Yahoo Q&A.
- Experto CredoLv 71 decade ago
Since numerous people give links to themselves, I can only surmise that someone was jittery about the link.
However, the flood of bogus, specious and unsupportive violation reports is reaching epidemic levels
- Heads up!Lv 51 decade ago
It`s bound to happen unless your politically correct with every answer , or if you don`t answer the question satisfactorily.
Source(s): They closed my previous account I had for years with only one warning. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
