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How about letting the Yahoo Answer Community decide if a reported question is a violation?
Why not put the reported questions into a separate category and the users on here can go there and vote whether or not we believe the reported question (or answer) to be a violation? If there are enough votes saying that it is a violation, then it would be pulled. Give out a point per vote, just like is done on voting for best answer. Let is be like a two thirds majority or something like that to decide if it is a violation. If the reported question does not get the two thirds vote in favor of it being a violation, then it is restored. If the question was still open when it was pulled, then it is put back like it was just asked.
The benefits to this is that it would put the violation decisions in the hands of humans who actually read the reported questions.
The downside is that you would still have people just say violation for the fun of it.
However, this would be better than what Yahoo Answers has now. I would go and vote on reported violations if I had the chance.
Yahzmin
Yes, the trolls are a problem. They are a problem on the site to begin with. Yahoo could do more to stop that by limiting the activity of level one people.
Also, I am kind of interested in what sort of suggestion you have. You say "nice try" but you offer nothing. Lets hear your solution to getting violations figured out on this site.
I know how to limit the trolls on there. Do not let anyone below level 3 have the ability to vote on reported questions. There are not many trolls who can last that long. They usually get tossed out for violations before then. Also, it would keep someone from just making up a new account and going trolling in the reported section. Finally, it means that a person has spent time on Yahoo Answers and probably has a better idea of what the rules are.
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
That would be worth putting on the suggestion on the suggestion board.
- zalmanLv 45 years ago
you aren't any more the in basic terms at a loss for words member the following i'm too, I easily have received some so noted as violations in the course of the former few days and enable`s face it in case you went to courtroom with those the choose might want to throw then out for dropping the courts time. the in basic terms element it really is smart to me is that folk are reporting a lot now that the yahoo crew do in basic terms no longer take time to rigorously evaluate the case and that i trust that some bored operative`s are in basic terms hitting the violation button on their end, a style of knee jerk reaction. The question remains who polices`s the police?
- Yahzmin ♥♥ 4everLv 71 decade ago
But then the trolls would simply gang up THERE and earn even MORE points by voting that, of course, it IS a violation. Nice try, but just not workable with all the stalkers and trolls here.
