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My points are crazy bad all of a sudden! What happened?

How did I manage to get minus 189 points?

Update:

I've never had a report and I don't ask many questions at all!

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  • C.M. C
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Buttercup, I sort of know you well, and your not the type to get violations. Looks like the Yahoo Answers Gremlins have got to you, I would email Yahoo, for all it's worth, totally useless, but worth a try.

  • 8 years ago

    All you can see is the last five activities on your page and unless you have violations it indicate a Gremlin to me. Look at your total score and see if that looks ok or not.

    It is the start of the new week and Yahoo could have been tinkering with things. This morning I started with no points, and I was surprised as I would have expected a few and I think my points looked ok so I haven't looked further and put it down to a gremlin

    Chetak

  • 8 years ago

    sometimes if you arent the smartest person ever and ask questions that the ppl in power here think are not worthy they'll give you a bunch of violations which is complete crap but since it's a free website to use I guess that it's hard to really complain.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Reported answers, asking questions

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  • RAY G
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Probably you got on the radar for some past pattern of breaking guidelines.

    I'd guess it's about chat violations, questions like:

    "Did your dog have a nice Christmas?"

    "Team Edward or Team Jacob?"

    "Do you ever catch yourself doing the Truffle Shuffle?"

    "Is everybody having fun tonight?"

    etc

  • 8 years ago

    hard to say but it could be violations\

    check your email

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