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Tutor spam in Mathematics section - should I mark it as abusive?
On Yahoo Answers in the Mathematics section, I sometimes see where a difficult question doesn't have an answer. Then I see that someone has answered it by saying "Why don't you contact this math tutor?", essentially advertizing for their services. As a potential math tutor, I find this to be unfair competition. Is it honest for me to mark it as abuse? I find it to be unfair competition and a somewhat gray area. In answering questions I never do that. I don't think anyone else should either.
So far I actually went ahead and marked one answer as spam and reported it. I guess if I did it too fast then I will lose standing in the community. I hope to have best standing in community. I think I will have to pick a better picture than this blah grey one.
If more people want to offer answers I am glad to hear them.
It seems there's one set of values that comes from academia (truth for the sake of truth, the main goal being intellectual development and growth) and then outside of academia people value economics, practical concerns, self interest more often.
3 Answers
- GoldenLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
You should since its not fair for people to be spamming when people need answers to their questions not advertisements. And how is reporting spam communism as the other person said? A free country also means that you are free to report who you want if they do something unfair.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Mathematics isn't a technological know-how. It is the language of technological know-how. In technological know-how there are experiments and theories which might or won't come to be real. In math there are theorems which, whilst demonstrated, ought to consistently be real.
- Guru HankLv 79 years ago
That is un-American. Free enterprise is what makes us different from the commies. If you don't like it, maybe you should live in Red China.
