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Darby
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Darby asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 4 years ago

Has anyone else noticed that there is another new group of point gamers copying questions from years ago, word for word?

This began a couple of days ago. All of them have new accounts created 2/22/17 and set to private.

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  • Elym
    Lv 6
    4 years ago
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    Yes Ginger. I've noticed them for weeks now. But as You know - even the filthiest of activity stays.

    They started in the Yahoo Products category, but I've found them in Mental Health as well.

    I'm also getting plagiarized responses on My old Q's according to Notifications & emails yet when I go to said Q

    - it NEVER happened. This has personally happened to Me 4 times in the past 3 months.

    If I'm able to see the plagiarist's account, I find other things they've left a plagiarized response to are non-existent as well.

    To be honest though, I noticed this happened shortly after the "Purple Plague" was introduced in spring of 2014.

    You know, when YA decided ALL the resolved Q's needed to be brought back from the dead even though Most were

    already awarded the BA. "Discover" has become a fitting name for said Q's - the trolls & illegal activists have

    "discovered" dozens of ways to puppeteer those ancient Q's....over and over and....

    We're just noticing them in excess Now because rules NO longer apply & those of us that find said activity can NO longer report it.

  • 4 years ago

    No I have not noticed this, can you please elaborate?

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Thats not Point Gaming because when you Ask Questions its costing you Points Point Gaming is when you Answer Questions just to get the Points

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Yep. It seems a bit more sophisticated than last time. Instead of huge swaths of questions all containing the same word (such as "savage" whatever), they seem to be using more keywords and fewer questions per keyword. They also prepped for the attack by first answering a bunch of questions with answers like "1" or "3" in order to get more points. The accounts all have only one-word names.

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    4 years ago

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