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How can you find out who reported your question or answer?

I have a user who is stalking me, and reporting every question or answer I do as abuse is there anyway to find out who it is block them and report them

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  • 8 years ago
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    The above answers are correct in that you can't find out who is reporting you. That information is never made public, and it normally is more than a single person. Blocking them won't stop it, as you can still report people who have blocked you.

    What MAY help is figuring out WHY you are being reporting and fixing the issue. A quick glance at your answers solves that mystery. You are putting a link in your "source" to a website which (a) may be personal and (b) may be considered spamming. So you are likely going to be reported for every answer where you do this, sorry. Read what staff says about posting such possible personal / spam links and change the way you are answering, and you shouldn't have this problem again. Here is the link to the HELP page that addresses this issue, where they advise that such information belongs on your YA PROFILE page, not in your answer:

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD...

  • 8 years ago

    There is no way to find out who reported your answers or questions

  • teri
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I was reported several times for non violations so here is what I did I went back to the questions where my answer was reported and found the same person was answering the questions where I was violated also turns out that this person is a flake and answers exactly opposite of me and also happens to be a level 7 (supposedly trusted at that level) that is how I found out you might want to give it a try.

  • 8 years ago

    Why would yahoo want you to know? There's a certain protection with them not being known- if you reported someone for murder you wouldn't want that person to know it was you, right? It's some sort of confidentiality so you can't know.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No, and I very much doubt you have any individual is stalking you.

    As Yahzmin says, the clue is in the massive loss of points (-5,267) on your profile. What has happened is that some long-running repeat violation came to the attention of Y!A, and they've purged your Q&As wholesale.

    A quick Google confirms Yahzmin's suggestion: that it's about spamlinking to your own website on every answer.

  • 8 years ago

    There is no way of knowing, reporting is anonymous. Usually all it takes is 2 or 3 "trusted" members although sometimes more and in rare occasions only one to report a post and the bots remove it.

  • 8 years ago

    You can't and that's as it should be,we don't want revenge wars here.All you need do is bring it to YA's notice and they will check to see if someone is stalking you.Are you appealing & getting the Q/A restored?

  • 8 years ago

    You can not find out.

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  • 8 years ago

    You will never know who reports you, but if you suspect it is a particular user you can block them by hovering over their avatar and click the red button.

    Chetak

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You cannot. There'd be tons of drama on here if you could.

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