Spiritually Speaking, if R&S is a community, and we have community moderation?

As you know I am #1 in religion & spirituality section (India). For the last two years I have been harassed, stalked, abused and insulted. I was cloned 25 times and only thrice, YA suspended the clones.

There is a group here who are either professional hackers or insiders from YA who are specifically targetting hindus. Almost all prominent users in this section got mass deletions. Many profiles suspended, all within a week.

If you visit this section there are trolls openly abusing mothers and sisters of users with filthy words, and no report could delete their questions. If someone tried to argue with them they face immediate suspension.

One example read Pieceful Aryan's answer in my Q

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao...

Such filthy answers are not removed and one who tried to tell them not to abuse, was immediately deleted.

This group of trolls can see into anybody's profile, see his questions and contacts and then they proudly announce how many profiles they got suspended.

Very abusive and filthy questions against hinduism are never deleted and anyone asking them to stop is immediately deleted.

Such actions can not be done without active support from YA insiders. I will dare say Yahoo Answer is not doing sufficient security to their servers, allowing people to hack into other's profiles

OR

their own staff members are themselves trolling and removing those whom they dont like, or some staff member is helping them, giving them info about profiles.

Hindus are peaceful people and we are simply discussing our religion,without troubling others, but we are not allowed to participate !

Yahoo Answers team is responsible for this plight of our small group.

Linga's answer here http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=At...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am...

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=At...

If such situation continues on YA, many prominent users including me would be forced to leave YA. Who wants to get abused in filthy language and who wants to be a target of insane group of haters.

Exactly. It's like Block Watch people coming outside and tattling on anyone who would dare play outside on their block. The TOS are intentionally vague so that the Yahoo! employees can use discretion and remove questions that may obey the letter of the TOS but not the intent. Frankly, anything is a violation if you squint and tilt your head a little. If most of us want to be able to ask questions, but only a few want to be vigilante tattletales and the tattletales are winning, then it's not community moderation. It's bullying.

Yahoo! has never been opposed to bullying. I've often asked for help with bullying, and I've seen my friends ask for help as well. I've even seen my own friends bully others, unfortunately. No matter what happens, Yahoo! accepts (and therefore condones) the bullying.

EDIT: The reporting problem is NOT just an R&S phenomenon. It's across the board. R&S is probably the busiest category, so it's felt harder here, but the reporters are everywhere. They are concentrated in busy categories. One can still post silly questions in low-use categories, but there are more violations everywhere. I've been violated all over the place.

I don't have the energy to look through all of their answers, but I think you're on to something. Out of the ten people on the leaderboard, Fireball and Rene are the only ones I've seen answer regularly. I think that's rather curious considering all the time I've spent on here. And I don't really see Rene anymore. I actually assumed that most of the leaderboard peoe either quit yahoo answers or have been banned (that's happened to some, right?) Still, they are only 10 people out of the community. I've never cared about the leader board and I don't think most others care. Edit: Don H answered a question of mine for the first time yesterday. He was the only answerer. I deleted the question.

I have had answers deleted that in no way could they be considered offensive. For instance, a girl asked for help in understanding the Bible. I answered that I would be happy to help. I stated no opinions or anything else. Yet a week later I was advised that the answer had violated the community guidelines and had been deleted. ????? If answering a question honestly and sincerely is offensive, then what's the point of YA? I also wonder about the smart aleck answers that seemingly have no problems with the report Gestapo.

I won't even begin to talk about the large number of answers that I have had deleted because they evidently rubbed a moderator the wrong way.

You'll also notice that you don't see me around here much anymore.

I know a lot of people have left Q & A due to what your saying. They don't seem to care new accounts come in to take their place. What we need to do is find alternate sites and work with the ones that work with those using them. I found these best question and answer sites

http://www.refseek.com/directory/answers.html

also this one http://www.sodahead.com/question/ask/

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The problem is the majority of Q & A could be regarded as against the rules. Perhaps we should all turn in to report monkeys and report 10 to 1. I asked this before

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApcHM...

as I thought this section and and politics had a lot of reporting going on. I found out we are not alone.

((((JA))))

They only care about selling ads. And they seem to be operating under the delusion that getting rid of anything less than 100% serious will somehow make this a legitimate Q&A forum. More likely to attract better sponsors.

Sad thing is, everyone knows that you'll find better information on answers.com or even just typing a question into google's search engine.

If you want proof that they just don't care about anything but the bottom line look at "site statistics" in this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Answers

They claim 15 million unique users daily, while other compilers put it at 4 million. Any company willing to perpetrate that level of fraud (to charge more for ads) won't give a crap about our opinions.

Love ya (((JA)))! See you (as myself) in a few weeks.

I think that most of the reporters don't really have a valid reason to report the post, so they label it as chat. I've never been to this Suggestion Board, but the very fact that it is capitalized makes me tremble. Oh dear, chat! Well, chat or not, you are one of the best contributors to this board and let no one tell you different!

Auntie Kookoo

Edit: I shall go the the SB immediately! My voice WILL be heard!

Agree, I have long felt that opinion heavy pages such as >R&S and >Politics should have more leeway on chat/rant rules than sections where the questions tend to be of a more empirical nature.

Were it not for the benign flauting of the TOS there would be nobody worthwhile logging onto this board to answer real questions when they are asked.

I have used the suggestion box many times. In fact I had organized all my contacts, and theirs, to keep sending suggestions to make the ability to report a level three or higher privilege. And after several days of this nothing changed at all.

You are correct. The current rules benefit a small number of reporters, and not the large number of the community who are adversely affected. It's like the state police in a dictatorship justifying censorship as "that's how the rules work here", irrespective of what the people actually want. The rules do not serve the mainstream of the people.

While I'm still keen to see that this place works better, I think we must be realistic enough to cast our eye out for a <shudder> potential Plan B, somewhere where the subject can be discussed without such reporting abuse.

Yahoo deserve credit for setting up what was a wonderful site, but now they're running it so badly that people are leaving.

That there is so much vindictive and childish reporting says a lot about religion in America in general.

If they got rid of the report button all hell WOULD break loose. It just shows you how frail the pro-religious arguments are, and dare I say they have revealed a cowardice on here that says more about their arguments than you could ever learn in a church. But like America itself, it tends to be dominated by theocracy and censorship, two of the biggest hallmarks of all religions.

If there is a bright side to this, it is that more people are discovering what actually comes with the religious arguments. And how is it that most "Top Contributors" are ideological fundamentalists?