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pdq
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pdq asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 6 years ago

How do I stop almost daily sexually explicit attacks on Yahoo! Answers?

I've been reporting attacks from a vicious person for 4 years. His latest profile has been around for about 1 year. After such a long time reporting this person, I don’t believe I should have to stand for this anymore.

I used to be able to contact Yahoo! Answers, and they would help me. They suspended the person's account a few times when he wouldn't stop.

Since 2015 began, I have written Yahoo! Answers 8 times with no response.

What should I do? The person uses extremely sexually explicit and offensive language in nasty personal attacks against me and others. (Mostly me.). Sometimes he also uses hate speech against blacks and gay people, too.

How do I get ahold of someone that can help? Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Update:

Some fascinating comments. I do appreciate the time people put into this topic. Whether I agree with you or not, thank you.

With that said, there isn't a whole lot I agree with except for a couple comments echoing my sentiment that I shouldn't have to be the one to leave Y!A or to change my name.

My #1 point I'd like to end with is that I once WAS able to e-mail folks at Yahoo! Answers and they helped me with nasty attacks. Is it still possible for them to help? That remains unanswered.

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  • 6 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I suggest you block him, if you haven't already. Also change your profile to anonymous, to make it more difficult for this user to track you. And then take a couple weeks off from Y!A...by the time you come back, he'll probably have moved on.

  • .
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The only thing you can do is what you've already been doing: click on the report abuse flag and continue to email the profile to the Yahoo Answers Team.

    You can also email other members to help you report the violations. Or post the profile to the spam battle thread if he's posting links.

    I looked at your links and it's mainly an ongoing feud where he is engaging is user-call out and insulting you. He sometimes posts insulting questions about you. I removed a number of them. But you really need to bring this to the attention of the Y/A team.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Make your profile private,keep emailing Y!A and/or go on the chatzy help room

    (to see if the users in there can help bring it to the attention of YAT)

    Then remove your avatar AND change your name to something more common so you blend in more....cause the fact is even if you make your profile private if you have a unique username your posts can still be found quite easily with google. And if you keep your same avatar he will still know it's you no matter what.

    Also as said maybe take a break for a while so he hopefully gets bored and finds something else to do with his time...cause as long as he can find you AND he gets confirmation like this that he's bothering you he will just keep doing it!

    Blocking him may work for the individual profile he's using now but in all seriousness will probably do next to nothing overall since most serial trolls will just create a new profile and keep trolling.

    I've been on here for over 9 years and I have dealt with people just like him, So I have to say posting all these Q's about what he's doing AND refusing to change anything about your profile cause what we are telling you does not measure up to your personal opinions on what you should and shouldn't have to do and how this site SHOULD work (but doesn't) does nothing to help fix your situation.

    In actual fact it probably benefits HIM more than anything cause this Q along your previous posts (if he sees them) show him he's getting to you AND the fact you will not change anything about your profile just makes you a very easy target to find and harass again even if his current profile is removed!

    So sorry to tell you but your options are very limited if you want anything to actually stop/change.

    EDIT: Also, I did not report you for anything, and my account has not been anonymous for 9 years the fact that you blindly accuse and then think my account is anonymous cause of a single post I make anonymous (since I prefer to be anon in this topic cause of my own trolls) says a lot to why you are having problems here.

  • pdq
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Here are some of the latest examples of his sexually explicit attacks. (Look for the profile called “fahQ”):

    **NOTE - Someone reported all of the 5 comments, so you can't see them anymore.

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150... (*Answer already removed.)

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150... (*Answer already removed.)

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150... (*Answer already removed.)

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150... (*Answer already removed.)

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150... (*Answer already removed.)

    I’d greatly appreciate anyone that can connect me with someone from Yahoo! Answers that actually cares that this sort of thing isn’t acceptable.

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