Report abuse in Y!A? Why bother?

Part of the issue is here:

"From time to time I report abuse in Y!A when I see it."

Your TRUST rating for reporting depends on 2 things: accuracy and frequency. If you report only once in a while, there is no real 'history' of excellent reporting for staff to base a high trust rating on. So you are not building up trust for future reporting impact. Accuracy is figured out by how often your reports are overturned on appeal. So part of the answer to your predicament, assuming the system IS working right again, is to report MORE, not less.

Another way to approach this is to verify that the person is posting COMMERCIAL spam. Those can be reported directly on the Suggestion Board to the "Official Spammer Battle Thread", which is reserved for commercial spammers, like the "work from home" guys. Check the thread out here and see if that helps you with getting rid of those people:

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&...

I wonder the same thing.

Btw your question and my answer are in violation of the terms and we can both get reported.

Apart from that, they get removed if enough people report them.

But yahoo also states that the system is not yet 100% accurate and they also do manual checkups before removing some posts. So that might be the case too.

the automatic system has been down for a week or so you can read about it on the suggestion board under the about tab at the top of the page. so that is most likely the problem if you are speaking about recent reports. the only thing that i know of that hurts your trust rating and has impact on the weight your reports carry. is if you report and that user appeals and wins the appeal. spammers don't usually even file appeals

It could be the way you are going about reporting.

When you see the user post it, copy the URL of the user and report the user, and make a comment in the box about the user and post the URL. (don't just click the box)

Write to the Answers team, I have had them acknowledge them sometimes, so they 'do' pay attention to you.

Chetak

I do not bother at all. Enough folks around this section can do it but do not care. And it is Yahoo s job ! or should be anyway.

on the ones causes it might look that u are proper ... but it surely could no longer get very some distance for the reason that yahoo could of been making use of her prime profileness to broaden fame of this website online ....