Why are my old answers reported?

I have had more than 5 answers reported, some gong back 4 years, where I mentioned the same site. The appeal doesn't work even though in my appeal I sent a link to the FTC government website where it specifically tells people to use that site.

Fascinating, because I'm a TC in the insurance section, and I, also, have referred people to that same US Government sanctioned website to get copies of credit reports (as your credit score can have a serious impact on your insurance rates.

I'm seeing my answers from years and years and years ago, being reported as spam - although they do NOT meet the definition of "spam" according to TOS (soliciting others for personal gain, or not related to the topic). Frustratingly enough, I've also appealed and LOST the appeal (not common, for me).

I strongly suspect that someone is trolling the TC answers, because I can't think of any other reason why links to the officially sanctioned website would be deleted.

Weird--I just had a whole bunch of the exact same answers reported and I gave the federal free site email each time; I appealed all of them and lost each one (the report cited "spam" and "TOS") and my answers must have been years old. Not even sure YA even went to the site to verify that it was actually the free site. I was pretty disappointed in YA-maybe we should do a group complaint, LOL. This just occurred over the last week or so.

I think someone is trying to become a Trusted Reporter and is deliberately searching for answers to report.

Before you assume malice, you need to remember that not everyone is a US user.

Quite probably your answers were simply mistaken for spam: www.annualcreditreport.com looks indistinguishable from any number of other credit report sites, and not everyone's going to click through to find verification that it's actually government-endorsed.

Because some people are just trying to become trusted reporters.

Oh god. First level 7s get easily butthurt and like to move questions to the entertainment section and now this crap. I wish millions of yahoo users would just stop using this crap and drop them an email or a post in answers/forums about our issues with them and let them throw their response on the homepage or our alt emails or social media. This is so redonkulous. Yahoo Answers is the real trap house for internet thugs. For rizzles.

Renna, the site, access to it, negotiating around it has changed so much and has become so complicated that I have given up on the site. Way to go Yahoo. You screwed the pooch on this one. A previously fun site that you've made irrelevant. Hope you're happy.

Yep the same thing happened to me on several of my answers. I even appealed the violations and lost each of the appeal's.

In the end I just got tired of it and I spend less time here now.

cause you're a a$$hole who comments on other people's posts with a smart a$$ remark.