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Is there a way to personally contact the asker?
Earlier I saw someone posting a question and adding at the end that the question has already been deleted once and that they don't know why.
Well the question was clearly in violations of the yahoo answers guidelines and someone must have reported it for that reason.
Now the problem is that some of those guidelines are not all that obvious unless you specifically find the page explaining them in the help section.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers/moderatio...
Personally I would like to inform people in such situations about those guidelines so that this wouldn't happen to them again.
But under those same guidelines if I post an answer that does not reply to their question (but in fact explains them about the guidelines) I am myself in violation and can get reported by someone.
Furthermore if they ask a question that is not abiding by the guidelines I am not even allowed to reply to the question with an answer and just add the info to it.
I believe the correct thing to do is to actually report them, but it feels wrong reporting someone for asking a question when it it obvious they do not suspect they shouldn't have asked that in the first place.
Is there a way to inform such people or should I just stop carring and let them wonder why some people have reported their questions?
1 Answer
- Richard KLv 79 years ago
Yahoo Answers is not intended as a chat site so you have to be careful not to be chatting, see the link below or you could be reported. The best way however, you could click on their avatar, if they accept ims or emails click on the appropriate one and follow the prompts.