Did anyone else get a violation for answering the creep...?

You should not answer questions like that ,because you add fuel to the fire , just report and move on.

This pretty much proves what I've known all along...that Yahoo Answers never verifies reports, and all it takes is 1 idiot to click the "Report" link for it to be counted as a violation.

YA says that if you make false reports, you will lose credibility. But obviously, that's not true. Supposedly, you can "appeal" a violation, but I've tried it and of course I just got a generic response and my answer was still deleted. In fact, I don't know anyone who has sucessfully appealed a violation. I don't think YA even bothers. I just think the whole thing is automatic. Someone just clicks the "Report" link, and then you get a violation and your answer is deleted. If you try to appeal, they'll still just send a generic response.

I've already had 2 or 3 violations, even though I was a Top Contributor and had a 36% Best Answer rating. It's pretty much a mathematical certainty...if you hang around YA long enough, you're going to get "reported" and get a violation. Because all it takes is 1 idiot to click the "Report" link, and there is no real accountability.

I know this sounds crazy, but I really wish someone would legally FORCE Yahoo Answers to make the system more reliable. This sounds like false advertisement to me. Of course, it's a free service so technically we aren't customers. Although, since Yahoo uses advertisement, then you can say that we ARE customers. I don't know. But yeah, don't give too much credit to the whole reporting thing. It's meaningless. YA will delete ANY answer that gets reported. It just takes one moron to click the report button.

I wonder if it's the same way with questions? YA is too lazy to verify reports, so maybe if you flag a question, they won't bother to check it and will just delete the question and give the asker a violation? hmmm

No, I did not see the question, so I did not get a violation for answering it. If I had not just answered your question, I would have gotten a violation myself. It seems that if you vent here instead of answering the question, you get a violation for not ANSWERING the question. Yahoo runs this area just like they run the rest of their company, badly. There is no rhyme or reason, no fairness or unfairness, Yahoo does not care. It's take it or leave it. If you want to stick around, be prepared to deal with Yahoo's customer service problems. Yahoo does not have a clue. Good Luck!

No. I never answer questions like that. That's a prime example of a "baiting troll". They post stupid/inflammatory things just to get people angry. Then they go back and report anyone who may have even slightly violated the rules. Don't answer this junk, just report it.

I used to answer them stupid trolls before but now I just report them and move on. I don't want them to be able to report me coz I ended up doing what they want us to do, i.e. insult them to offer them the fun they need and then have them report us for not answering their question or insulting another member. It makes my blood boil seeing such crappy persons posting on here but don't give in to them, they just want the attention.

And Yahoo could care less about the content of the reported answer/question, he reported your answers and on there it doesn't show his question.

I got a violation for asking: Isn't strange how we all feel a little Bit weird sometimes?

It's amazing how yahoo has sooo many discrepancies. They don't know the difference between a philosophical question and blatant horrific vulgar obscenities.

Quite simply, he's a troll. He deliberately posts questions (ones that are violations in themselves) just to get angry and rude comments from a variety of answer'ers, and then reports them. There's an old saying on the Internet. "DON'T FEED THE TROLLS"

Report and move on. Don't get suckered in.

(Couldn't use ******... afraid the "report mavens" might be getting a bit overzealous nowadays.)

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Someones after you. It happens to me every so often and when it does I have to change the look of my avatar and name change. Just did this about two weeks ago.