Is it against Yahoo! Answers guidelines to copy/paste an existing answer?

1: The account is indeed violating the rules.

2: Please let me explain what it is exactly, so you can report him correctly.

a) It is NOT spam, as he is not using the same answer over and over, he is also Not posting commercial spam.

b) It is NOT copyright infringement as answers given by another user are not copyrighted in the legal sense.

c) It is however an infringement on intellectual property of another user and this should be taken care of in a special way. In such cases you should hit the "report" flag first, and on the next page mark the bottom (!) circle which is for TOS (terms of service) violations. In the box provided you should post a short explanation like "illegal copy of answer posted by "insert user name", then hit submit.

3: Possible explanation why the answers you reported aren't dropped: your trust level may not yet be high enough, so it would take at least one more user to report the same answer before it's deleted. But keep reporting those violations, sooner or later the answers will drop, and when they do, your report will be counted too and that in turn will raise your trust level.

4: Although your question is legit, calling out another user is also against YA guidelines, so I suggest to copy your question and the answers given, then save them to a text file on your own machine for future references. This is just a safety measure, because if that copy-and-paste user stumbles upon your current question, he could report you and your post may very well get deleted...

I've reported others that have done this many times, sometimes the answers get deleted, but sometimes they are left in. It's very annoying, and in most cases it's just one or two lines that have been copied, so the answer doesn't even make sense.

I don't think the reports are actually looked at, if two or more trusted reporters report a violation, it will go. If only one person reports it, it's usually left in.

For example, I once reported an answer because it was recommending that the asker commit insurance fraud, it wasn't removed and it went on to be voted beast answer.

Probably not spam, certainly plagiarism. I always report abuse on this kind of behaviour. Just in case you did not know, if they both post on the same day hovering the mouse over the 3 days ago or whatever reveals the exact time of posting.

We ought to cling out in different communities, because of the fact i do no longer see that from the different TC's that I run throughout the time of. for my section, i think of it quite is a splash lazy whilst human beings do this, and this is basically approximately 0.5 a step previous saying "look it up on Wikipedia". Now, I do use Wikipedia each and every so often for a number of my solutions, yet i exploit it as a handbook or a certainty examine. I take the correct techniques, and attempt to condense them to a pair of paragraphs in my very very own words. somebody would not want the total article on the Lydians whilst all they desire to renowned replaced into what replaced into the 1st civilization to apply funds. i could use the article to make constructive it is who it replaced into, approximately whilst they started utilising them, and then write the paragraph.

yes, it is also a violation to call out another user in the manner you have just done.

Most definitely it's against the guidelines.

Just keep plugging - they can only respond so fast.

Yes , of course it is , keep reporting him until he gets suspended

That's cheating, report them.