When you get reported....?

OK, you were reported for "chatting".

Chatting is a question that,m in the main body of it, has the word 'you' or 'your' in it.

Now, this does make it tough when you post in polls and surveys, which would ask a question of that caliber.

All the Y!A staff does is respond to the complaint and will nbot examine until the appeal report comes down

Well, it would cost Yahoo a lot of money to hire people to review each individual report and determine whether or not that report is in fact legitimate. The unfortunate thing is that Yahoo doesn't want to spend that money, so a couple of years ago they established "community moderation," which enables Y!A users to report anything they see that breaks the community guidelines. The downside to it is that it allows trolls to run amok. I know for a fact that there are users who are just extremely report happy... especially when it comes to the "chatting" violation. It's as if they consider anything with the words "you" or "your" to be chatting, which is a violation of the community guidelines. For instance, they consider your question, "What's your favorite color?" to be chatting. It's absolutely ridiculous! And I completely understand your frustration as I have been a victim of unjustified/malicious reporting.

Y!A's FAQ says that a question or answer will be removed if it's reported by one or more "reliable users." If the circumstance is more serious then the Answers staff may remove a question or answer themselves after reviewing it. However, the majority of the time they're just automatically removed and violation notices are issued, because of the way the Y!A system is designed. I personally feel the whole reporting/violation system needs to be changed because innocent questions and answers will be reported/removed while others, that are extremely offensive, are left alone. PLUS, I know that there are waaaaaay too many trolls disguised as "reliable users" who are out to get other users they don't like by wrongfully reporting them.

Furthermore, people who state their opinions are being reported as well. And Y!A says that having a strong opinion is NOT a justifiable reason for reporting someone. They just ask that users "do not use slurs to refer to groups of people, do not insult other members, and do not act in a belligerent manner towards others" when stating their opinions. Unfortunately other users still do report opinionated questions or answers regardless of the fact that they don't violate any of the community guidelines. This is EXTREMELY frustrating because honest Y!A users shouldn't have to pay the price for report happy trolls!

I wonder that to, this fourm annoys me! I've been reported by hypocrites. some members are trusted more than others

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you were reported for asking a fave colour!!!!! for the love of god!! yahoo is retarded"!!! the mods can't be human, must be a computer going by the rules it's been programmed with

im not 100% sure but i do not thinkk that they check if its actually a violation. when someone reports somethingg or you it gets deleted.

some people just wanna delete other people as a joke && report it as somethingg badd when its really not.

i hope someone checks it && realises you were just askingg a favorite color. cuz its totally wrongg to be reported when you did nothing wrongg.