Has anyone had a "Violation Notice"?

Yes,i got a notice for telling someone who made up a medical syndrome.I told him to quit making up stupid sydromes and get off his dead *** and go back to school.I e-mailed yahoo and told them they need to change their abuse reporting system.The way it stands now if i ask a question and i dont like the answer i can report it as abuse.That suks.They should not let the person asking the question to be able to report abuse

Yes. Whenever you receive a violation notice just respond back to the email address provided with the Q&A and your reasoning on why it doesn't violate community guidelines (http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines... ) or just ask why you received the notice. Then post the same on the Wrongful Violations board at http://messages.answers.yahoo.com/answers/forumvie... .

I received my points back with an apology notice after two weeks. That's all you can do. No one else can really help besides the Yahoo! Answers Community Care people.

The best thing to do is to have an account used exclusively for Y/A and no other Yahoo service. Use a separate account for the other Yahoo services. If the Y/A one gets deleted, less sadness is involved.

UPDATE: In other words, it's a violation to use two separate Yahoo accounts in Y/A. You can have as many Yahoo accounts as you want, but you can only use ONE of them in Y/A. I suggest that the ONE you use for Y/A is used exclusively for Y/A, so that it doesn't affect your other Yahoo services.

Good luck!

Yes. The problem is that they do not tell you the reason why you got a voilation so if you wanted to correct the problem you made you could not because you have no idea what the violation was.

Yeah... they told me which rule I violated the first time (Not a Question or an Answer), but they didn't tell me the second time, so I wrote back, asking why I got the Violation Notice. About 4 days later, I got a response in which they apologized for any inconveniences, and I got my points back. If you think you were given a violation notice when you didn't do anything or if you have questions about your violation, respond to your Violation Notice e-mail and ask them/tell why you think you were undeserving of the violation.

EVERYONE has had one, sooner or later!

You should have gotten an email and it should tell you what the reason was, but often they go to your SPAM/BULK folder or just say a generic "violation" with no real reason, sorry.

If you feel you have been improperly "violated", post your concerns to this forum:

http://messages.answers.yahoo.com/answers/forumvie...

where they are attempting to post a response (to the forum) within 48 hours and to send such things for reconsideration. Points HAVE been returned, as reported on here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq0Sx...

On the Yahoo Answers homepage, there is a link to the community guidelines. Sometimes it's big and at the top, but it's always a small link on the bottom of the page.

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines...

My same sentiments. Instead of that general letter let me know specifically what I did wrong. I use to do the Answers Forum but now I don't hear anything from them.

yes it is there welcome to you you loose point for nothing yes no you do not that is the beauty of it you get it why? oh well they need to get it mine was on level5 I said thanks and blew them a kiss from my?