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? asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 6 years ago

why is YA changing the categories?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    It's not Yahoo! changing the category -- it's another user.

    All Level 7 users have the ability to 'Edit Category' on another user's question. We're only supposed to do so in order to 'help' a miscategorized question find a more relevant category so that it will receive more and/or better answers, but some misuse/abuse the feature to move questions around maliciously to annoy others or to take them to a category where they will likely be reported.

  • 6 years ago

    Some level sevens take advantage of their given "power" to move questions wherever they choose.

    It's not a good thing...along with many other things Yahoo gave others "power" to do.

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