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Is it OK to spam hundreds of times in Yahoo Answers if I also give a reasonable answer?

I notice hundreds of members are now spamming for Leo Privacy Guard. This company must have hired hundreds of folks to spam Yahoo Answers. The "answers" are fairly reasonable, although often lame, such as "Try googling for the info you need" or "Take your computer to an expert" or a rewording of another member's answer. Every member who is doing this has hundreds of answers, all include the spam for Leo Privacy Guard, but no questions. By the way, the spam answers are not just for phone questions. They are all spamming computer questions, too. It seems Leo Privacy Guard has given them all the same, well-laid out job.

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  • 6 years ago

    IT IS OKAY TO GIVE THE SAME ANWSER repeatedly, if it answers the question. I've seen certain high points members on this venue do so, as when they paste a passage, verbatim, from the Community Guidelines on here as their answer to questions about chatting....and they do so over and over and over to every question of this nature. I frequently also give the same response in defense of a less stringent application of the chatting rules, albeit in a slightly varied form.

    However, what you're describing IS still a violation of the Community Guidelines, where under the section "Exploiting The Community" it says "...It is not OK to post links...that are...clearly meant only to solicit others for personal and financial gain." Even if the responders you are complaining about are not posting actual links, they are clearly soliciting for financial gain, which can be reasonably interpreted as a violation of this particular guideline, and could be reported for spam.

  • Fox
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    these are spmabots and they should ALL be reported not only for spamming but also for the fact that telling people to "google it" is not a valid answer either

  • 6 years ago

    It is not ok and all as described should be reported.

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