What is the penalty for cheating on Yahoo Answers?

I don't know why yahoo even has a top contributor list. It just encourages certain people to create sock puppets to ask and answer their own questions for points and imagined "status."

That is why YA went from a unique, interesting, non-interactive structured forum, to just another run of the mill message board.

I think is is fairly obvious when you read a top contributors answers that are consistently very simplistic, childish, or they have some special signature, they and friends can identify to vote for. Personally, it doesn't pay enough to go to all that work. But to each their own

In my case, there seems to be a lot of people who actually take the time to vote for unresolved questions. Although I'm grateful, I would like to think there are better things to do with their time. I would estimate around 70% of my "best answer", come from random voters. Why, I have no idea.

Well they could be helping each other ,but its not like the award is a big deal >_>