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Dragon
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Dragon asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Whats the deal with all the "try this" questions?

Over the past few days I've seen loads of answers with some dodgy link in provided by loads of different users (I'm assuming their all from the same person though). I don't want to provide the link here but basically it's an IP address followed by "~search". I just wandered who else has seen these and whether Y!A? I'm asking here because I've seen it a lot around R&S.

Also, whats been your favourite question here this week (so I can decide who gets best answer!)

Update:

That second sentance was supposed to read "whether Y!A are doing anything about it". My bad.

Update 2:

@ Christof Pröbst, it's not that. It's the same link everytime, to a specific IP range and it doesn't have the search engine part to it either.

Update 3:

@ Sassi, that's the one. I seem to be reporting it repeatedly!

Update 4:

@ hob, It means I messed up. Basically just admitting my fault.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes, I've just reported the account-holder because when you go to that link, you get a warning message that it's an extremely 'dangerous' link, so do you really want to proceed? I saw exactly the same 'answer' with the same link a day or two ago, several times, but I think it was a different account name.

    Please, everybody who see this dodgy link, REPORT the account-holder and demand that Yahoo remove the accounts being used.. The link begins http://77.78.239..../ and some other numbers to conclude. I'm not giving the full link to protect others from harm. Let's all report this every single time we spot it!

    And to answer your 'real' question, I think the best question this week was asked by Moment of Truth, "Christians, if Jesus died our death shouldn't we live the life of Christ?"

  • Bouyant
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Seen it, ignored it.

    My favourite question is the one yet to be asked.

  • Christof Pröbst
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It could be a link to a search engine that will direct you to the answer to your question. For example, this link:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=cigar+guy

    Takes you Google search results for "cigar guy".

  • Dances with Unicorns
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It's a spammer. Spam happens.

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  • Hob
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    My question is "What does 'my bad' mean?"

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