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Any of the regulars getting answer to 4 to 5 year old questions?
For the last week or so I have been getting 3 to 5 new answers suddenly being made to questions I asked 4 to 5 years ago here. It makes nos sense and often the answers clearly show that the person answering has not read the question or does not know the subject.
I had not had this happen before. I guess some blocking is in order.
9 Answers
- possumLv 75 years ago
Yep. Some helpful and relevant answers, others not. They are ALL new users, all have between 750 and 780 points (level 2), are single female first names, except one, and two accounts are now deleted.
I suspect someone setting up a massive base of fake names, giving legitimate or semi-legitimate answers in order to boost credibility. And I think that one or two of the non-relevant answers are being set up as trolls.
- jwbulldogsLv 75 years ago
I haven't experienced this so far. But I'm not surprised since yahoo no longer closes a question even after it has a best answer chosen for it.
It also doesn't surprise me that they don't read the question or fully understand it. That appears to be normal around here.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
A few. Yahoo answers has really fallen on some hard times with the way it is maintained and monitored it seems.
- KokoroLv 75 years ago
Yep I get that from time to time as well.
I ended up blocking and reporting some of them. Worthless trolls
- 5 years ago
Yeah i have been recently only started a few weeks ago. Tends to be people just writing the name of the category that it was posted in.
- LiondancerLv 75 years ago
I have been too but not just recently. This seems to be an off and on thing periodically for me and is not just limited to my martial arts questions either.
- Jim RLv 75 years ago
Yep, I have been getting some of that too.
I have also found them to be lacking.
I guess somebody thinks it is the thing to do.