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How could I receive a violation for a comment that I did not post?

Admittedly, this website is over and done, brought down by a bizarre barrage of "reports" of so-called violations by trolls and an administrative staff unable to cope. However, I am vaguely interested in how I could be slapped for a violation on a comment I never made. The comment is actually pretty funny, but I didn't make it.

My last post on this website asked for feedback on a quote from Chaucer, which was then sent to Violations and I never heard back from my appeal.

I really don't care, but how in the world would someone else's comment wind up being attributed to me? Specifically:

Question: Why are people so afraid of the Illuminati?

Deleted Answer: We will track you down. We will eliminate you. Avoid what does not concern you. Disregard the omens. You are safer in ignorance than you are in knowledge. You have been warned. You will not be warned again.

Violation Reason: Hate Speech & Violence

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Sorry it happened. I pretty much gave up on this place, but

    come back occasionally. Most my questions and answers

    are deleted. Funny thing is, 90% of it is restricted to YAP

    and the rest left alone except every once in a while I'll have

    one in another section deleted.

    This person is laughing....but not to the bank. There is no

    value to it other than to meet their sinful cravings.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Adeline, your experience is not unique. Hope you read this answer before it is deleted. Would you believe if I tell you that even one of my "Love Sonnets" was reported and deleted for reasons I could not understand.

    Even my avatar was for a time deleted by someone, and encrypted some script to prevent me from uploading another. The format of this site fails in visual impact.

  • doug g
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I have been going to Sodahead

    Some of the same jerks there but they can't report.

  • 7 years ago

    Your answer was deleted for a violent threat. The idea of answering a question to "hunt down someone and kill them" isn't a very smart idea, to begin with. All it did was threaten the life of the asker, a very clear violation of the Terms of Service. You could have gotten your Answers account suspended, even your Yahoo ID, on just this violation alone.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    doesn't surprise me - there was someone who was getting several violation notices for their answers and even though they were theirs, they weren't even deleted, they were still posted

    YA is one of the biggest sites online and it has a ton of glitches and bugs to match it's size

    [by the way, that was an answer, not a comment, that was reported]

  • chorle
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I can't even figure out the violation notice I got last month for a question that was asked two years ago.

  • Anything can happen with Yahoo, I received a violation notice because I left the answer block blank.

  • 7 years ago

    If it was your answer, Officer Teabag, I did think it was funny.

    Brian2010, the point was it was NOT my answer.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    That sounds like one of mine.

  • 7 years ago

    That's how powerful they are. See?

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