Should Yahoo Answers have this function?

No, there's no need for such an option.

First, I wouldn't pay for it because that user could easily open a new account and be right back here in under 10 minutes.

Second, I wouldn't want someone having the option of suspending MY account simply because they don't like my answers. My answers aren't always "nice" but I do try to be helpful and honest. Which means people sometimes don't like what I have to say. Oh well.

I don't imagine that you would want another user to have that kind of control over YOUR account, would you?

Probably not that much. I'd like to suspend trolls, but what's the use when they'll just create another account? As far as a non-troll is concerned, I have no personal issues with any users, so I would not maliciously suspend.

Our community moderation system is bad enough. Imagine the abuse there would be if trolls could pay for account suspensions.

£

I think that the report abuse button is far too often abused itself. I think it should never be used for anything other than the most vile offenses....Like when I was answering a question, and another female person wrote nothing but the five letter word that begins with W and ends with E and has the letter R in the middle. She wrote this word, starting at the left of the column all the way to the right, and repeated it over and over for what had to be at least 12 inches down. This I consider a reportable offense. Different points of view are not reportable offenses. Getting other people's accounts suspended, just because you don't like them, or what they have to say, is a mentally disturbed and ignorant thing to do. Exceptions can be made when, another person consistently targets you for attack, falsely accuses you of things that they themselves are actually guilty of, sends threatening emails, clones you, reports you, gets you and others suspended just for the sake of getting people suspended, stalks you, trolls you, and so on! Under such circumstances, then I think that it may be okay to fight fire with fire! Otherwise, everyone would do well to just live and let live, and if you don't like what another person is about, then just stay out of their way! Most people will not attack others unless they are attacked consistently first. It is usually only trolls that attack and harass first! *sm*

That would cause chaos -- people being deleted all over the place. I gave an honest answer very politely (but I didn't agree) about a month ago and received a message from the asker in my email -- F___ You! You know what my reaction was? If they think that it got a rise out of me, exact opposite. It made me laugh that someone would go through the trouble of sending a message to me to tell me that. LOL <sigh> I guess I just really hold no grudges or animosity toward someone being a jerk on here. It just doesn't get to me.

It would be nice if they could put a screening process on here, though, to help weed out the trouble-makers.

It should take a certain amount of complaints to suspend it. What if someone didn't like you? Wouldn't you be mad if all of a sudden your account was cancelled for no reason??

yes i would pay to suspend you

I would pay 100$ no more but it has to be given to charity!!!

no