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Is Yahoo no longer looking at the postings?

Every question I see these days has multiple identical answers from people doing copy and paste for the points. Is there something I don't know about the points? Getting paid, for numbers of answers or something?

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  • 4 years ago

    Those are points gamers leveling up for Black Friday/Cyber Monday spam

    They do the same thing every year and will spam through Christmas with links

    The same thing has happened the past 3 years around the same time. The difference is, there used to be a Yahoo Spam Battle Thread where you could report these and the accounts would be removed. But the Spam Battle Thread doesn't even exist anymore

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    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Yahoo doesn't look . It's the member's job to report copied answers which I do. Really bugs me to spend 5 minutes giving a good answer and then see someone copy it word for word. You know who copied by checking the posting times.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    these days if you report to many correctly they Yahoo surn you into a Non Trusted Member so they dont need to do anything about Your Genuine complaint

  • 4 years ago

    I think some people just do it on purpose to get the points instead of answering the question

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  • 4 years ago

    Scammers and spammers do it so they can post live links. Some new users do it to get to Level2 where they can answer more questions.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    no, points are useless except for bragging rights and asking more questions, and leveling up to higher levels

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No they probably aren't. If they did, you would already be banned from this site you c*nt.

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