Does anybody think spammers are ruining this thread?

I think that yahoo kills the spammer accounts. If you look at them , they are almost always only a few days old. The problem is that it is very easy to create a new account when the old one is banned.

I report spammers about 60% of the time, the rest of the time I just give it a thumbs down. The reason is because thumbs down is 1-click and immediate, whereas spam marking takes longer:

1) Click to report abuse

2) Scroll down

3) Click for type of abuse

4) Type spam info

5) Click to confirm abuse

6) Click to return to question

Also, when you have peopel asking questions like "How do I make money without investing and without working?" , some of the "spam" answers address the question (it's hard to prove they are scams).

It is like the drug trade: if there were no customers, there would be no dealers. There are obviously lazy people clicking the links looking for easy money, otherwise the spammers would quit on thier own..

[edit] case in point:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200907...

31 answers

27 of them spam

13 already removed by yahoo

of the 14 remaining, 12 accounts were created today, making them newer than the question they answered!