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Why bother challenging trolls spammers for their infractions?
This morning, I received yet another violation notice for having reported an persistent spammer who had asked the same identical question a number of times in a short period of time. I caught the person on his/her spamming and made it known in my response that what they were doing was against the Terms of Service.
That person (I'm guessing) probably reported me with 2 of his/her user accounts in order to have my response deleted and to be issued with a violation notice.
It's hardly worth appealing the violation. The process is idiotically long and involved and hardly worth the time to get 10 points back.
Still, it's worth the lost points to make others here aware of the troll spammers and possibly put a stop to their behaviour.
3 Answers
- BilboLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
I appeal successfully against violations - it makes YA investigate the people who are reporting inaccurately - and gets them onto the radar. Best thing to do with Trolls, Bots or Spammers is report them when you seem them. Also - set your Q & A's to private.
- RAY GLv 710 years ago
"made it known in my response"
That's the problem, though. "Calling out" misuse is itself a violation. I don't report it if it's correctly warning people that a question is spam, but a lot do. It's unlikely the spammer reported you; spam posting is largely automated.
- ?Lv 510 years ago
The whole abuse report thing is pretty poor, if you ask me. I've gotten violation notices for actions that didn't violate anything.
Keep on reporting, but you probably shouldn't tell people you're reporting them.
