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What is the best way to help shut down trolls and racist posters?
It seems the Y!A moderators are not particularly interested in moderating material that is not in the spirit of public forums. After being reported for calling a racist post racist, and noticing that my own reporting of the question had fallen on deaf ears, I contested the violation. The moderator gave me no more than a cut and paste answer and the offensive question still remains. If I wanted to be effective in helping to reduce the amount of offensive behavior observed in Y!A, what would you suggest is a good, legal way to do this?
As a long time user of public forums, I have had enough of posters that use anoniminity to offend users into replying with angry posts. I have ignored this practice for too long and all I want to do is find an effective way to help reduce this lowlife practice.
EDIT.
Trolls can be ignored, but racism cannot.
5 Answers
- GracieLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Ignore, Don't make a War, Block and Report.
Ignore them.
They probably have nothing better to do but just sit around and make other people mad.
Don't make a war.
Don't start fights, they'll just make more back and it'll be a never ending controversy.
Block.
Don't let them add you in their contacts. Don't let them e-mail you, so I suggest making stuff on your profile (e-mail and such) private.
Report.
Report them. Also, if you find their question/answer offensive, annoying and mean, report them.
Those are the easiest ways.
- 1 decade ago
The racist thing I think needs to stop because it is not right . buuut I mean the whole troll s h i t . I mean who gives a f.uck really its not the big of a deal . the one thing i can't stand is when people take yahoo answers so seriously that they gotta label people they dont know a " troll " .
- quepasamengLv 41 decade ago
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- Poor_YorickLv 41 decade ago
Welcome to the sucky part of the internet! people just end up making multiple accounts, so that if 1 gets shut down their ready with the next one. Although I was wondering if there was some way to permanently ban a specific IP address??..that would be cool.
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